SFTaxiLive & Online Town Hall Meetings

Sftaxilive - a brainchild of Director Christiane Hayashi - can be accessed at www.sftaxilive.com. It contains a plethora of features including the ability to attend Town Hall meetings online. Follow the procedure below if you wish to join tomorrow's Town Hall meeting on Tuesday January 28, 2014 at 1: 30 pm.

To join a meeting live via internet there are three steps: 

1. Register for the site using your email address.

2. Sign up for an upcoming meeting that you want to attend remotely.

3. On the day of meeting, log into site and join the meeting live.

STEP 1: SIGN UP ON THE WEBSITE

  1. Go to www.sftaxilive.com

2. Click on "Sign Up" link in top right corner. All you need is your first name, last name and a valid email address. You pick your own password. 

3. Once you are signed up, click "Login" on top right corner and sign in any time you want to attend a live meeting or register for a future meeting by entering your email address and password.

STEP 2: SIGN UP FOR AN UPCOMING MEETING 

For example, sign up now for the January 28 Town Hall Meeting. Note…you must have already registered for the site (see Step 1):

1. Log in using your email and password.

2. Click on the "MEETINGS" link on the left hand corner of your user page.

3. You will see three options: "My Meetings" "Past Meetings" and "Upcoming Meetings".  Click on "Upcoming Meetings".

4. All upcoming meetings will be displayed, and each meeting will display the following information: 

Name, Start Date, Time, Capacity, Details and Action. 

Under the column  "Details" is the word "View".

5. When you click "View" it will display more details about the meeting, including meeting documents you can download. On this Details page at the bottom is a "Sign Up" button. When you click "Sign Up" you will be automatically signed up for that meeting.

STEP 3: JOIN LIVE MEETINGS ON THE DAY OF MEETING

1.    On day of meeting. go to www.sftaxilive.com and login. 

 2. Then in your user page you will see the MEETINGS button. Click on "My Meetings".

3. You will see a list of all the MEETINGS you have signed up for. Click on the meeting you want to join and it will display the meeting details.

   4.  Click on "JOIN" on that page and it will take you to the meeting in progress.

Although the site is largely self-explanitory, I'll cover some of the other features in another post.