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The Tilth Producers Apprenticeship Placement Service
is a way for Tilth Producers members list your offerings
to host apprentices and interns on your farms. You can
use this website feature to add, update and delete your
own placement listing.
In
the past, we posted placement listings on the website
but we had a cumbersome method using paper applications
you’d send us via snail mail. Now it’s real-time and
you’re in control.
The
service is available to Tilth Producers growers
who are current members. You can only post one listing
per farm, but you may indicate multiple positions.
Here’s How:
1)
Go to
www.tilthproducers.org and click on “Tilth Placement
Service” on the navigation bar on the left.
2)
You’ll
need to know your unique membership number to activate
your ability to use the service. If you don’t know it,
we’ll be adding your membership number to the address
label starting with the Fall, 2006 Tilth Producers
Quarterly Journal.
Nancy Allen, Tilth Producer’s Administrative Assistant,
can also tell you what your membership is via email (nancy@tilthproducers.org)
or by phone 206-442-7620. You must be current with
your membership dues to have a usable number, so…. you
know what to do. Your membership number will stay the
same even if, heaven forbid, you have a temporary lapse
in staying current with your dues.
3)
Next,
you’ll need to choose your own user name (basically your
password). For the sake of security, your user name
won’t be activated until you respond to an email message
that will be sent to you as part of the sign-up process.
When you receive the email (should be just a matter of
minutes, so leave the web page open that alerts you to
the incoming email) you’ll need to copy and paste the
authorization number into its spot on the website and
click “SUBMIT”. You should now be able to add a new
listing, edit an existing listing or delete your
listing. We use the email address we have on record
that’s related to your membership. Email addresses are
fluid little buggers and despite our best efforts, we
can’t keep up with all the address changes that go on
out there. So, if your email address has changed, you
may not receive the message with the authorization
number. In this case, you should contact Nancy Allen.
She’ll be able to help you get your user name activated
and update your email address. Some of you don’t have
email. If we have no email address on file with your
membership, the automatic email is sent to Nancy Allen
alerting her to your desire to activate your user name
and she will assist you as soon as she can.
4)
Some of
you already have Placement Service listings on the
website, many don’t. You’ll be alerted to an existing
listing if you try and add a new listing. You will be
able to edit or delete the existing listing. Hopefully,
the on-line instructions are simple enough so you have
an easy time with your listing.
5)
Since it’s
so easy now to add, edit and delete, please try and keep
your listing as up to date as possible. The Placement
Service is only as valuable as the information posted is
current.
If
you have any questions, problems or suggested
improvements about the way the on-line listing feature
operates, please don’t hesitate to contact me, your
Webweaver, at
webweaver@tilthproducers.org or by phone at
509-725-0610.
Chrys Ostrander
Tilth Producers Webweaver
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