How to Post Threads to Pharma Marketing Forum

If you are advertising your company or event via Pharma Marketing Network, a dedicated forum may be part of your campaign. With this option you can post any number of notices -- press releases, white papers, discussions -- as "threads" to the forum. The more posts or updates you make, the more likely your forum will appear in search engines. Also, we can Tweet about the posts you made to bring more attention to your forum.

Here, we show you how to make posts to your forum using an Events Forum ("Emerging PharMarkets Summit 2011 Mar 23-25, 2011") as an example.

FIRST, login to the forum by going to the Forum Main Page (here). See the following image, which shows you where to enter your User Name and Password, which were given to you at the start of the campaign (click image for an enlarged view):

SECOND, scroll down the page until you find your forum and click on the forum name as shown in the next image.

This will open up the forum ready for posting (see next image).

THIRD, click on the New Thread button as shown to open the editor window:

This will open the editor window ready for posting (see next image).

FOURTH, type in a title (careful, not too many characters!) and the body of the message where indicated in the following image. You can format the body message using the formatting tools (labeled A). Click on area marked B to see the formatted version of the post:

If this is all you want to do, click on the "Submit New Thread" button to post your thread. If you have been given moderator status, your post will immediately be available for all visitors to see. If not, your post will go up on the site after it has been approved.

In this example, we show how to add an attached file such as a pdf file, Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, etc. Attachments are uploaded BEFORE clicking the "Submit New Thread" button.

FIFTH, scroll down until you see "Additional Options" and click on "Manage Attachments" to open the attachments dialog box (click where shown in the following image):

In the attachment dialog box you have the option to upload a file from your computer or type in a URL to load a file from a Web site. In this example, we will load a pdf file from a local computer.

SIXTH, click on the "Browse" button (see image below) to select a file from your computer by browsing your folders until you find the one you are looking for. It will appear in the window next to the Browse button. Then, click on the "Upload" button. When the file is uploaded you will see it highlighted in the "Current Attachments" box (see image below). You can upload more than one file at a time. Close the window when you have the corrected file uploaded and you will be returned to the Editor Window.

SEVENTH, in the Editor Window click on the "Submit New Thread" button and you will see the completed pots as shown in the image below: