VMW BBS location: http://bbs.valleymediaworks.org

To obtain a login for the VMW BBS, contact our office. Logins are assigned to individual users based upon if you are a volunteer, member, staff, or board member.

Be sure to keep your profile up-to-date Go to Community, then to My Profile, Account Here you can add a photo, see your username, change your display name and nickname, add information to share with the community:

• your website
• social networks
• location
• Signature
• About Me

And you can change your password.

• To load the calendar, click on the CALENDAR menu option at the top of the page.
• You can limit what information you see by selecting CATEGORIES in the drop down menu at the top of the calendar, then selecting the type of information you want to see.
• You can limit what information you see by using the TAGS from the drop down menu at the top of the calendar, then selecting the type of tag you want to see.

• Navigation from Month to Month and Year to Year, use the buttons surrounding the Month at the top of the calendar.

• Whether it is a meeting, a class, reserving equipment, or an edit bay, use the Post Your Event button (green) at the top of the calendar.

Fill in the form

• Event Title
• Date
• Venue (if at CTV, put “CTV - (name of room)”) otherwise put location information
• Categories (choose at least one that best describes what you are posting)
• Tags (choose at least one that best describes what you are posting)
• Descriptiong (use this area to give CVCTV Staff a clear picture of what you are requesting)
• Phone Number (your phone number, so that we may contact you with any questions)
• Submitter name (your name)
• Submitter email (your email, the form will send you confirmation information when we authorize the event)
• Read the “posting rules” (blue link)
• Check the box for “posting rules”
• Hit the Submit Event Button (Green)

• Someone from the office will contact you if there are any questions about your 'event'

On the top menu of the website, the first four (4) buttons are links to the forums available.

• Board (available only to board members)
• Staff (available only to staff members)
• Producers (available to all members)
• Ideas (available to all members)

To add a post to the forums, whether to a new discussion or to an existing discussion,

• simply click on the forum that you want to go to: Board, Staff, Producers, Ideas
  • if adding to an existing discussion, click on the title of the discussion
  • then click on the discussion topic
  • scroll down to the comment that you want to reply to, and click reply
  • if you want to start a new discussion, click the Add Topic button