June 13 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
Build Teachers.Net with Your Feedback
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The tip for today, Friday the 13th, will help you directly shape the Teachers.Net website. Through your carefully considered feedback, Teachers.Net will unveil the next generation in online teacher community!

Teachers.Net was founded by teachers, for teachers, and showcases nothing but the contributions of hundreds of thousands of great teachers around the world.

But did you know your feedback directly shapes the development of Teachers.Net?

That's right, since Teachers.Net was founded over a decade ago, we've looked exclusively to our teachers for guidance about which teacher resources to add next, how to improve the tools we have, and guidance on everything from basic navigation to the entire site aesthetics. Perhaps this explains why Teachers.Net is the top-ranked site for teachers in Google and other search engines.

Your Feedback Determines What's Next
There are several ways you can help steer Teachers.Net. The most obvious way is with your great feedback. We've created a vibrant chatboard exclusively for your feedback about Teachers.Net. Tell us what you like, what you don't, and what you'd like to see changed or added.

 
      Teachers.Net Website Feedback Chatboard

 
The Teachers.Net Website Feedback Chatboard assembles all of the feedback from our teachers, allowing others to pipe in and add their input too. But it also sends priority email alerts directly to the developers of Teachers.Net, so they never miss any feedback you take the time to send us.

In the past, the Website Feedback Chatboard has helped Teachers.Net identify difficult to notice technical problems across the entire Chatboard Network, helped alert us to problems and new approaches for the mailring, the live chat and meeting room, the lesson bank, job listings, and more.

Developments that started as suggestions from the Feedback Chatboard include Classified Ads, Live Teacher Meetings, and dozens of special interest chatboards and mailrings. If there's a topic you would like to see receive special attention, and its own chatboard and mailring on Teachers.Net, be sure to suggest it on the Feedback Chatboard.

 
Contacting Teachers.Net Directly
If you need to contact Teachers.Net directly - for a perplexing technical problem, if you can't get one of our resources to work quite right, if you would like to report abuse, have questions about advertising, or any other matter that requires immediate assistance, check out the Teachers.Net Contacts Page.

To report abuse...
Inappropriate Chatboard posts - click the red link "Report this post" in the right hand side of the post in question. If the reason for the report is obvious, no message is necessary - we will review and remove the post as soon as possible. If you are reporting a pattern of abuse, a brief note will help us evaluate the problem and develop an appropiate response.

Problems posting...
If you are restricted from posting to our chatboards ("Your message has been logged and forwarded to the list administrator for review") you may be posting content that is not allowed on our system. Due to excessive spamming, many free websites, blogs, and similar websites can't be linked to from postings. Postings including content that is highly linked to spam (such as medicines, some electronics,and other commercial products and services) may cause your posting to be rejected. Vulgar content will likewise be rejected.

Occasionally, we must take steps to close down access by individuals and even entire Internet carriers and regions to prevent repetitive spam. If you believe your access has been blocked due to no fault of your own (your posting is "logged and forwarded" even with no content in it) then send us an email requesting we review the block.

When your post or access is blocked, you will receive a message that says "Your message has been logged and forwarded to the administrator for review." Copy and paste that entire message into the contact form, and be sure to include your name and email contact information.

You may also email us the notice of review by copying the entire screen into an email addressed to "webmaster@teachers.net". IMPORTANT: Email sent to this address MUST include in the subject link "can't post to Teachers.Net". If you do not include these words, the email will be considered spam by our system, and discarded without being read.

 
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Thank you all for your support and excellent feedback, stop by the Feedback Chatboard if you'd like to see what others are suggesting, or have some great ideas of your own!

 
Bob Reap
Site Developer
Teachers.Net
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