How to get started?

There are two ways to "navigate" Public Minds, depending on your needs and goals:

If you are after Presentations or multimedia from IPAA National Conference, you can simply use the red header to go to the content area of your interest. For instance, if you are looking for a presentation from the Academic Day, you have to click on "Conference". A drop down menu will appear. If you select "Academic Day" another menu will pop up. If you click to "Presentation" the page containing all the presentations and papers from the Academic day will open:

Main screen:

 Screenshot of Academic Day Presentations content:

If you want to take part in online discussion and share knowlege and ideas with other users, you just have to click on one of the four "Join in" link. This will direct you to the collaboration area for the topic. Here you can contribute to (or just read) the discussion forums, and you can share files (e.g. a paper or a presentation you have written). Alternatively you can access the forum session from the red header menu.

Example: how to access “Communities” collaboration area

Screenshot of one collaboration area:  click on "forum" to share ideas on the topics, or on "media" to see users' submitted documents and to upload your own files