Be sure to check MESSAGE's Volunteer Vacancies section ('Volunteer with MESSAGE') on this website and in each quarterly Newsletter. Area MicroMessages also list Volunteer Vacancies. Feel free to contact your Area Leader and let her know you'd like to get more involved by hosting a meeting, etc. She'll love you for it!

MESSAGE members may attend meetings in any MESSAGE area they choose. Just remember to let the hostess know 48 hours in advance if you plan to attend.

Renewal subscription fees are due 31st December for the upcoming year. If these fees are not paid by January 31st, your membership will be terminated.

If you are a new member, your magazine will be sent as soon as your subscription form is processed. For all other inquiries, please contact membership@messageparis.org

Please contact abcsales@messageparis.org or order online by following the links under 'Buying & Selling' and then 'Shop Online'.

Extra copies of the magazine are available, in limited quantities, by contacting publications@messageparis.org.

MESSAGE meetings are covered under our liability insurance. Attendance Sheets provide a record of attendance should a mishap occur and we need to use our insurance. Also, Attendance Sheets give us a good indication of what meetings are well attended and how we should hold meetings in the future. These help when determining geographical areas for MESSAGE.

·  How can I publish information on the website?

Any member is able to post a reply to an existing discussion thread or start  a new discussion within the forums. Any member may also post additions or changes to the calendar, classifieds, member reviews or photo gallery sections.   If you are looking to promote your business on the members’ site, we ask that you contact pr@messageparis.org for a copy of the advertising guidelines.

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The act of logging in creates a persistent cookie on your hard drive which will expire after one month. You only really need to log out if you borrow someone else's computer, or are in a cybercafé.  To find the LogOut button you need to scroll down to the bottom of any page and you will find it bottom-right.

This is a listing of non-MESSAGE community events that are currently happening in Paris and environs. The majority of these events are free and open to the public. Please contact web@messageparis.org to submit an event for consideration that you would like posted.

For the Volunteer Vacancies, check the 'Volunteer with MESSAGE' section at the bottom of the website. Here the latest positions are advertised.

You can click on My Info at the top of the site and then click on Private Messages in the left side column. There you can read and reply to your private emails.

To do this, you need to send an email with your text to the Support Services Coordinator at anon@messageparis.org. The Support Service Coordinator has sole access to this information and confidentiality is strictly maintained. Additionally, the Coordinator can pass on private messages to the anonymous author if they are sent directly to her.

The easy way is to click on the member's username anytime you see it underlined and you will be taken directly to a box to write your email. The mail will then be displayed only for the recipient to pickup. OR - you can click on My Info at the top of the site. This will take you to a page with your personal information and there you will see a section for Private Messages. Here you can type in the recipient's username if you know it...if you don't know it you can browse the list of users and select the recipient. OR, if a person has posted a thread, you will see some small icons at the bottom of the box containing their post. There is an icon called PM. Click on this to leave a pesonal message for that person. At this point, private messages can only be sent to one user at a time.

This is a Pass the Word section where anyone can post a review of anything they think would be interesting to other members....restaurants, stores, outings, products or services....absolutely anything. This section is accessed through the'Getting Out' drop-down menu.

At the bottom of the forum page, you can see who and how many members are online.

No, you cannot change your User Name. Each user has been assigned a name by the administrators for continuity.

Yes - your anonymity is guaranteed. The name of the voter is not recorded.

We welcome suggestions for forum topic and articles! If you have an idea for a survey, topic, etc. please contact the web team on web@messageparis.org

To choose one, go to My Info (very top of page on the site). Once there, click on 'Edit Profile Picture' under Settings and Options, on the left side bar. Follow the instructions on the screen and personalise your profile! You can change this picture as often as you like.

Some articles that are merely announcements or informational have not been setup for comments but most articles have a place for member comments. To leave a comment, simply click on the bottom of the article box on Comments. You will then be given a box in which to type your comments. If an article already has comments, you will see the number of comments displayed. Click on Comments to read the comments.

Please do!! We have left the comment place so that members can leave their thoughts and suggestions for others. This also encourages dialogue on the site. A couple of members have mentioned that they felt they shouldn't comment on all the articles or that they shouldn't be "leaving their mark" in so many places. Please comment all you want, on every article if you feel like it. The site will only benefit from members' input.

Click on the topic you are interested in responding to. You can respond whether there is only one entry or 30! Simply click on Post Reply at the very bottom of that topic discussion OR click on Post Reply in the upper left corner of the topic discussion. This will put you in a box where you can type your text and add smileys if you want to. Click on Submit when you are finished and your response has been entered.

Pick a forum. For example; if you are wanting some advice on sleep issues with your toddler, you need to click on 'MESSAGE Paris Forums' (it is right on top of main forum area) and scroll down until you see, in the fourth section called Family Life, a category called 'Sleep Solutions'.  It's wise to verify no one else has asked the same question you want to ask. You can do this by doing a "search" or reviewing the topic lists in the forum of interest. To post a new thread, click on "New Thread," which is a button found on the top and bottom of most forum pages. This loads the "Posting new thread" form. In "Title," try to clearly describe the topic. Rather than using "Two Year Old" as a topic, members would appreciate more details such as, "Two Year Old Refuses to Sleep." Most readers scan the topics and click on what is interesting to them.

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The Score is a rating system for the articles from 1 to 5, with 5 being the best. To give a score, open the entire article by clicking Read More. At the right side of the screen is a section entitled "Article Rating" with a series of bullets and stars. Click on the bullet showing the number of stars you wish to give the article and click Cast my Vote. Your vote (anonymous) will be registered. The score is then averaged with other votes and the talley is displayed on the bar under the article.

This rating system lets the site administrator get an idea of what members like to see on the site. If a certain type of article, health matters for example, consistently get low scores then the admistrators would know to decrease the amount of those articles in the future. Member opinions on articles are so important. Feel free to score every article as you feel appropriate. Be honest!

Moderators control individual forums. They can edit, delete, or prune any posts in their forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your forum moderator at moderator@messageparis.org

This discussion forum uses cookies to store the following information: the last time you logged in, your login identification, and your preferred "topic view." These cookies are stored on your browser. Cookies are not used to track your movement or perform any function other than to enhance your use of the message board. If your browser does not support cookies, or you have not enabled cookies on your browser, many of these time-saving features will not work properly and you will not be able to post new messages.

You may edit your own posts at any time. Look for the edit icon on the post to be edited. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum moderator(s) or Website Administrator.

For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. You may use HTML and/or UBB Code (if enabled) to provide hyperlinks to outside documents.

Don't panic - a Download on our site is NOT a program that is going to be installed on your PC! A Download for us is an article or a form, usually in Word or Excel, that you can literally "get a copy of". Click on the download that you wish in order to open the file. Then the form or article will appear on your screen in a few seconds. This can sometime take longer depending on your connection speed and the size of the download but it is not a process that will tie up your computer for more than a few minutes at the very most.

At this point, you will see the document on your screen. You can either print the file from your browser or you can save the file to your hard drive (File Save As in Internet Explorer). You will then need to click the BACK button on your browser to return to the MESSAGE Website.

There is a rich and varied directory of articles, info leaflets and forms available in the Downloads section of the site, in the Parenting Resources drop-down menu.