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Respecting each member's privacy on this site is of the utmost importance.

There is to be no spamming, soliciting for business (or any other purpose).

If you have products (books, mosaics, cards, etc.) that you would like to sell to the members of this site please contact me first.

This is not a sales site except for the advertisers that support the features of this site.

Any abuse of this will result in the offending parties being removed from this site. Please report any offenders of this to
 Pam Givens immediately.

You can now find CMA's mission statement and
Disclaimers & Disclosures in the drop down tab under the Home page tab.


Slide Show

The main page slide show changes regularly and is managed by one of our volunteers.  You will fine the policies and  guidleines about the main page slide show under the photos tab


CMA Volunteers

On the top right there is a list of the volunteers who help create this lively and thriving community.
A more visible list is under the sponsors tab.



The Forum

1.  The Forum is for topics of discussion. The forum guidelines are posted in a drop down menu under the forum tab.

2.  To start a new discussion in the forum, click on the forum tab and then "start a new discussion".
 
3.  This will take you to a place where you can put in your title, content and you can decide which  category it fits under. All that will show up on the main page.

4.  There are many Forum topics in the Archives....Be sure to read those.




The Blog

1.  The Blog is for announcements.  Things you want to share about yourself  insights, maybe a story maybe something that you have discovered.

2.  To start a blog post go to 'My Page' 

3.  Information about the Blog can be found in the drop down menu  from "My Page".



Using the Chat Feature

* The Chat Feature has 3 functions: telling you who's on line and willing to chat, clicking their picture will be offered some options: you will have the ability to IM them or to view their profile.  When you click their profile information you will be taken to their page where you will see  whether they are really on line or not by the indication of the green dot.

*  To Chat type in your message in the space under the large box and click enter...you can add an emotion by clicking the smiling face, click on the emotion you want to enter and hit enter on you keyboard.

*  The Chat feature allows you to either show yourself as on line or off line - if you choose off line you can still search the website -but will be unavailable to chat until you click on line again.

* With the IM (Instant Messaging) you can chat with the other members who are on line and it's private.

*  When you choose to IM you will be taken to a different screen with just that person visible - to get back to the main chat feature there is a drop down menu that allows you to move back and forth between the IM and Chat.

*  You can Chat and IM from all the pages on this web site. And there is also a Chat Tab on the main menu bar that takes you to a larger screen.


Latest Activities

* This feature tells you what's been going since you last visited the site.  

* If you click on the person's picture you will be taken to their page.

* Click on the activity you will go  to where the posting is listed.




Groups
1.  On the main page we have groups listed.

2.  To join a group click on the photo of the group you are interested in and then to read and respond to the discussions - click the join link in the upper right hand corner of the page.