Welcome to the Global ILI Team Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Here will will find answers to most common questions regarding the setup and use of our community website. Click on any of the questions on the list below to see the answer or browse this page to see all the questions.

How do I get instructions about managing my account and page?
How do I setup my account?
How do I upload photos to show in my homepage?
How do I show videos in my homepage?
How do I find friends and contact them?
What are coaching and mentoring networks?
What are forums?
What is the difference between Coaching forum and network (same with mentoring forum and network)?
How do I post to one of the forums?
What are Topics?
How often should I check out forums?
What is the prayer Network?
How do I post a prayer Request?
What is the photo gallery?
Can I post pictures in the general picture gallery?
What is the training area?

How do I get instructions about managing my account and page?
There are three places you can go for answers to this question:

1. Welcome and Setup Instructions are available at the Global ILITeam Welcome Page. Once you logon for the first time, you will be taken to the welcome page, which tells you how to set up your account.
2. This page has Frequently asked questions (FAQ) and tries to answer the most important questions about how to navigate the functions of the Global ILITeam site.
3. You can post additional questions in the leadership forum. Under General discussions, post any questions for which you didn’t find answers in the other two sources of information. We will check out the forum as many times as possible and provide answers for you.

   
   

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SETTING UP AND GENERAL CONFIGURATIONS

How do I setup my account?
The first step in setting up is entering information about you. Our site software needs information about you to build your homepage. There are four steps to setup your page.

1. Click on “update my information” on the menu to the left. A page will appear with a list of twelve items you will need to provide information. Each line is a link to another page. These are the items you will have to update.My Personal Message: Enter your last name and a personal message that will show on your page. Welcome visitors and give them some information about yourself.
   Personal Information : Fill out information about yourself. At the end, check the box if you want the information to be available to others. If you check NO, the data will now show in your homepage. Do that if you have concerns for your personal safety.     
   Business Information: Same as above
   Ministry Information: same as above
   ILI Training Information: Fill out this form with the two highest level ILI conferences you have attended.
   ILI Organization Information: Fill out information about the conference you have personally (or as a team) organized. Tell us how many conferences you have organized and give a bit of information about up to 5 specific conferences.
   Family Information: Please give us information about your wife and children. There is room for up to nine children. If you have more than that, please apologize on ILI's behalf to the children whose names get left out.
   Upload My Photo:  Make sure to upload a recent portrait of yourself to go at the top of the page. Use a small file (around 25kb) so that people can download your page quickly where internet is slow. You can use Microsoft Picture editor or any other picture software to resize your photo accordingly. If you have a digital camera, they usually come with those programs included. If you don’t have a software to edit pictures, there are several free programs available on the internet.
   My Testimonies: Write down up to five testimonies related to conferences you have done. They may be your testimonies or quotes from people you trained.
   My Display Settings: This section will determine what will show in your homepage. The default is to show everything. If for some reason (i.e. personal safety) you don’t want something (i.e. your picture) to show, then make sure to click on that.
   Manage My Network Contacts: You will only use this in the future. You may delete or add contacts to your list from here.
   Submit Conference Reports: We will use this function in the future for you to send conference reports directly to us. Do not use this function for now.
   

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How do I upload photos to show in my homepage?
Everyone's home pages will have two picture galleries where you can upload pictures for others to see. They are easy to upload and will make your page interesting.

1. Choose the pictures you want to include in your homepage . Use your picture editing software to resize and compress them
   NOTE: It is common practice on the internet to use the smallest possible picture size without losing quality, so that even people with dialup access (slow internet) can see the pictures without having to remain online for a long period of time. Make sure your files are between 40 and 100 Kb in size. I also recommend close up shots instead of wide pictures of large groups, because they will show up too small on the internet. Because of the way the page is setup, portrait photos (height larger than width) will show better than landscape images. For more information about how to upload pictures, click here
2. After editing your photos to the size you want, save them to a folder in your “my pictures” folder or somewhere else in your computer. I suggest you create a new folder called website or something else, so you can find the pictures easily.
3. Click on the “update my personal page” on the left menu.
4. Click on “edit page” when your home page comes up again. Your page will refresh (blink and come back up again with small differences)
5. Click on the “edit” buttons next to the picture galleries. (they look like small pages with a pencil) A browse window will appear showing the file structure in your computer. Click on “browse” to look for the pictures you just prepared. After you selected each picture, click on upload.  Write a brief descriptive caption below the photo for people to know about it. You will be able to upload several pictures at a time and give each picture their own caption that explains the images.

   
   

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How do I show videos in my homepage?
Your personal home page has two video windows where you can embed videos of your choice. We suggest videos done in conferences, Ministry videos or any other relevant events that you would like to share with the world. You can change your videos as many times as you want, but you can only show two videos at a time.

1. Shooting your video – You can use a camcorder, digital camera, webcam or even a cell phone to document conferences or other activities you would like to share with the world.
2. Editing your video – Most Windos XP and Vista computers have a program called Windows Movie Maker. Use it to edit your videos. It has cool features like titles, transitions and effects. Follow the program’s instructions to edit your videos.
3. Upload videos – Unfortunately we cannot upload your videos directly to the ILI website. You will have to use a public video publishing website, such as YouTube, Google Video or other. I would like to suggest Google video because you can make your videos private there. This means only people you give authorization can watch the video (instead of the entire world seeing it, as in Youtube). Here is how you upload to Google Video.
   1. Sign up for a personal account with Google video (don’t worry, it’s free). Follow the instructions on their website.
   2. After you login with your account information, click on “upload your video.”
      1. Locate the file of your video that you have saved in your computer.
      2. Give it a name and description.
      3. If you don’t want your video clip to be public, make sure to mark it as “unlisted.”
      4. Click on the button agreeing to the terms and conditions of Google video service
      5. Wait for your video to upload
   3. Embed your video in your Global ILITeam homepage
      1. Open a separate browser window (MS Explored or other) where you will logon to the Global ILITeam website without turning off the Google video site,
      2. On the Google video screen, click on the “e-mail,embed” button on the right.
      3. Click on “embed HTML” hyperlink and copy the entire contents of the box that will appear (called HTML code).
      4. Go to the ILITeam website to create the link to your video on your page
         1. Click on “update my homepage” button on the left menu.
         2. Click on the edit button next to the video window
         3. Paste the HTML codes you copied (4d) into the box.
         4. That is all you have to do. The next time you refresh your homepage, the video will be embedded. Click on play and your video will play from within your homepage. Very cool!

            
            

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How do I find friends and contact them?
Click on “Directory Search” on the left hand side menu. Use the search form to find people and then add them to your network. You can search for friends by name, last name, or any of the other available characteristics. You can browse all the names by doing a search by last names and only putting the one letter in the box. That search will give you all members whose names begin with a, b, c, etc.

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NETWORKS

What are coaching and mentoring networks?

We can use the website to coach and be coached by others, as well as mentor and be mentored. Members of the Global ILITeam will connect with coaches and mentors using the website and then continue the relationship using e-mail, instant messaging (MSN, Yahoo, etc), or Skype. We will distinguish coaching and mentoring like we teach the subject in multiplication.

• Coaching: More experienced ILI leaders will help other members of the community to improve the quality of their teaching and conference organization by sharing from their experience and expertise. You can find coaches and sign up to coach others.
• Mentoring: You will be able to find leaders willing to be mentors (alumni or faculty) and then engage in personal mentoring relationships (via e-mail) with them. They will answer the two basic mentoring questions, “What are your priorities (vision)?” and “How can I help you achieve them?” You can also be available to mentor others.

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DISCUSSION FORUMS

What are forums?
The Global ILITeam website has three discussion forums where ILI alumni from all over the world can discuss with each other on current themes and subjects related to the ILI training. Alumni who are members of the community and members of the ILI’s training team worldwide will have the opportunity to ask questions and to answer your doubts. There are three different forums.

1. Leadership Forum – We will discuss general leadership themes there. Anything is “fair game,” as long as it is serious, meaningful and discussion happens in a respectful manner.
2. Coaching Forum – We will discuss themes related to the ILITraining. This is a place where we can coach each other in public (everyone can see what we post). For example, you may have a question regarding how to make the “One-man-band” illustration meaningful for people who have never seen one. You post the question and people all over the world can share what they have done to overcome that limitation.
3. Mentoring Forum – This forum will discuss (publicly) leadership issues, answering the mentoring questions. If you have something you need, a question, a vision or idea (what are your priorities?), you may post it on the site. Others will try to answer the question “How can I help you achieve it” with suggestions, experiences or advice. By answering someone’s question, you become their temporary mentor. By posting a question, you position yourself as a mentee to those who may answer you. Members of ILI’s Trainingteam may answer your questions and deal with your issues.

   
   

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What is the difference between Coaching forum and network?
Note: This question also applies to the mentoring forum and networks.
The main difference is that the forums are public. You can post and respond to anyone and any subject. In the coaching and mentoring networks, you will relate personally with leaders (alumni and members of ILI’s training team). For more information on the coaching and mentoring networks see question below.

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How do I post to one of the forums?

• Posting a question – When you come up with a question that nobody has asked before, just click on “submit a new post.” Try to keep your question as short and objective as possible, so it will catch others’ interest.
• Answering a question – If you want to comment on a question or make a comment on someone else’s post, click on the post at the forum page. It will take you to another page, where the entire discussion is visible. Click on “reply to this post” above the text. That way your comment will be posted in the same discussion thread. Please keep your comments to a maximum of 10 lines of text.
• Starting new threads – Threads are current discussions, which include all the forum posts that pertain to that particular subject. In order for your message to be in the thread, it needs to be posted as a “reply” to someone else’s post in the same thread. If you want to start a discussion about some specific subject, submit a new post from the forum homepage and watch as others respond to your comments. Please keep your posts to a maximum of 10 lines of text. We will often start discussions from our office, or from some conference we are attending, but our site will be interesting if people have ideas and start new discussion threads.

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What are Topics?
Every now and then, we will begin a new discussion topic, for which community members can start new threads and discussions. Only our website management can start new topics.

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How often should I check out forums?
The success of discussion forums is based on quick response and participation by several people. The first word of advice is for you to visit the forum as many times as you can and post as often as you have something interesting to say or ask. Here are some more specific guidelines.

• If you are not involved in any discussion, we suggest you check out the community and forums of your interest at least twice a week to see what is going on. As part of the community, you will be friends with people from all over the world, including some of today’s “hottest” places. If some global news event happens, you may want to check our prayer network and leadership forum to see if we started discussions or a prayer meeting about the subject.
• If you are currently involved with a discussion, especially if you recently posted questions or comments, we suggest you visit the forum every day. The success of our discussions depends on many people posting responses and doing it quickly. We can have a conversation with several messages exchanged in one day. That will make our forums exciting and helpful.

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PRAYER NETWORK

What is the prayer Network?
This is our virtual prayer room, where each member of the Global ILITeam can post prayer requests and pray for existing needs.

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How do I post a prayer request?
You can post your prayer requests any time and everyone who opens the Global ILITeam page will see it. Here is how you do it.

1. Click on “Prayer Network” button on the left of your page. All the current prayer requests will appear on the page. Then click again on “submit a prayer.” Here are a few guidelines for posting prayer requests
2. Write your prayer request in 50 words or less.
3. In the title line, write your name, a title for the request and date submitted. You maycome back later and post positive answers to your requests as praise reports (the same way you posted the request).

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PHOTO GALLERY

What is the Photo gallery?
This is a page with photos of recent ILI conferences or other activities that we post for your entertainment and inspiration

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Can I post my pictures into the pucture gallery?
No, those pictures can only be posted by our staff. You will be able to post pictures in your homepage (see instructions below). However, if you have some very important pictures that you think should be in the general gallery for everyone to see, you may send them to us by e-mail.

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TRAINING AREA

What is the Training Area?
This is one of the most important features of the website. Here you will be able to manage everything related to the organization of national and regional ILI conferences. In this are you will be able to:

• Download teaching materials, including notebooks and powerpoint presentations.
• Download teaching instructions and manuals.
• Download important supplemental documents such as articles, additional teaching tools, etc.
• Download forms to report your conferences to the international office
• In the future you will be able to use this area to manage your own conferences, with online registration.

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