To include a picture or downloadable PDF file in a page or post on the website, you need to first add it to the Media Library.* Follow these steps to prepare and upload a picture or file: Prepare the document or picture: For a PDF file, ensure it’s accessible before you upload it. How to … Continue reading How to add content to the Media Library
If you are on a committee or group here at First UU and you need to share private information such as passwords with your team, please consider security. First, never put passwords in email. The best methods to share passwords with your team are: Call them on the phone and verbally tell them the password … Continue reading Sharing Passwords
The following is excerpted from the Gmail Guidebook that I prepared to help those who need to use a shared email address understand how to do this effectively. Contact me (the Webmaster/Karin Carlson), with questions. Email Delegation Overview In a nutshell, Gmail delegation allows people other than the one person with the committee’s email password to … Continue reading Delegation: Using a Committee Email Together
If you want to have your content appear on the website, whether it’s an announcement, an order of service, a posting about an event, or something else, here are some things you need to know. Please submit your content as soon as you are able – two weeks in advance, if possible. Remember that the … Continue reading Want to submit content for the website? Read this first.
Update December 5, 2023: Many people in our church community have received or will receive an email that appears to be from the personal email address of Rev. Stefan Jonasson. It isn’t. Please examine the below screenshots of the email and in particular, the ways you can tell that it’s fake. If you receive this … Continue reading How to mark an email as spam or phishing
Follow these guidelines to add accessibility to your Word file, to then make into an accessible PDF file. What’s “accessible”? It’s a file that most people can read and understand, regardless of their vision level. Mostly, accessibility for electronic content like files means that the color contrast is high so people with low vision can … Continue reading How to create an accessible PDF file from Word (PC or Mac)
If you have a church email account, and you use our Google Workspace for committee and other shared church work, you might need to share a file or folder. Sharing a folder shares all the files and folders inside of it. Here are some instructions you can use. Log in with your church email and … Continue reading How to share Google files or folders
If you work on documents in Google Drive, the “files” portion of our Google Workspace, you might need staff, board, or committee members to collaborate with you or leave feedback in the document. The correct way to share documents is to share a link to the file that’s in Drive, not to email it as … Continue reading How to get a link to a document in Drive
If you have a church email, that is, an email that ends in “uuwinnipeg.mb.ca,” you might be interesting in reading this article, which details how to set up email alerts on your device or your browser (e.g., Chrome). Many people who use church email accounts (which are Gmail accounts) have asked me how to set … Continue reading How to receive alerts for Gmail
If you chair or are in a committee, or if you have a job role at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg, you might be asked to use a “church” email address. We define this as an email address that ends with our domain, which is @uuwinnipeg.mb.ca. Benefits of using a church email address … Continue reading How to Use a Church Gmail Account
