TSPRA - The Texas School Public Relations Association

Our TSPRA Membership Directory and internal messaging system can be used to set up connections for your groups of TSPRA colleagues, much like Facebook and other social media sites. When you log in to TSPRA's site you see a message in the header that says: "Hi [your name], you have no new private messages." or "You have [number] new private message{s). These internal TSPRA web messages are not going through your district/organization email system so they remain private and confidential. They are not scanned for any purpose. The instructions below show you how to search the membership directory for names of friends or how to search by areas of interest. Then you can send a private message and invite TSPRA members to connect with you or your group. They may accept or decline the invitation. You manage your connections in your TSPRA Profile Page in the Members Area.

Here's how to CONNECT:

I) Sending a connection invitation

1. To send a connection invitation go to main page and login (type your login and password and click login button):
   
2. Go to Member Directory:
   
3. Type your search criteria and click FIND USERS button:
   
4. Click on desired profile in users search result list. (Let's connect for example to user test test):
   
5. Go to tab: Connections -> Request Conection:
   
6. Type your message in Connect to test window to send an invitation to user test and click Send button:
   
7. Confirmation allert appears. Click OK to confirm:
   
8. The direct connection with test is Pending Acceptance!:
   
   
   This way we have just sent an invitation message to your desired user test. Now let's see
   how user test can log in and accept/decline your connection invitatioin.

II) Receiving and Accepting / Declying a connection invitation

1. To accept/decline a connection invitation go to main page and login: (enter your login and password and click login button at the top of the page):
   
2. Go to Connections -> Manage Your Connections:
   
3. Move your mouse over the user's photo to see his/her short description and personal message:
   
4. Click green checkbox to accept or red cross to decline and click UPDATE button. (In exsample purposes let's click Accept):
   
5. Connection actions succesful!:
   
6. Assign a type of member (friend or co worker), type your comment and click Update button:
   
7. Sending private message to a desired member:
   
   • Click the icon PMPM under desired member's photo:
     
   • Type your message in Message text field and check the copy to me checkbox if you want to receive a
     copy of your message. Click SEND button:
     
   • Your message was sent succesfully!
     
8. Receiving private message from a TSPRA member:
   • Login by typing your login and password at the main page: (we login as test test):
     
   • Click a private message notice at the top of the page:
     
   • You will get redirected to a messages page. You can read the received message by clicking on the message's
     title, forward or remove it by clicking the proper icon to the right:
     
   • Let's click the message title - and get redirected to a message page.
     Here you can reply to the user's message and click SEND button:
     
   • If you do not need this user to connect you - you can remove connection by clicking red cross under person'a photo: