As a Connect user, you may prefer to engage with your Connect groups from the comfort of your email inbox. Users that have saved an email address of a Discussion group to their email client as a "Contact" record for the group that they are a part of (for example, name it "ALA Members Group") can post a new discussion thread to a desired Discussion group from their email client. Any email sent to the address will automatically post a new discussion thread, with the email subject line becoming the discussion subject and the email body becoming the post itself.
For expediency, you may be tempted to use your email client's "Forward" functionality to forward a digest that you have received in your email client to another community using a Discussion Group email address. This will not work. For security reasons, this functionality is no longer available. If you try to forward a digest into another community, Connect will instead bounce this discussion thread back to the original community.
How to share information from a digest to another community using your email client:
- Create a new message in your email client.
- Copy the information that you would like to share from the digest.
- Paste the information that you have copied from the digest into the body of your new email.
- Place the Discussion Group email address into the "To" field.
- Type or copy your subject into the "Subject" field.
- Attach any desired files.
- Send the new message like you would a normal email. Your email sent to the Discussion Group email address will automatically post a new discussion thread in the desired community, with the email subject line becoming the discussion subject and the email body becoming the post itself.
A FAQ regarding this change within Connect has been created and is documented on the ALA Connect FAQ page.
Cory Stevenson
He/Him/His
ALA Connect Community Manager
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Kimberly Redd
Program Manager
American Library Association
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