Overview
Step #1: Sign Up for Service
Step #2: Get Your Township Domain Name
Step #3: Get Your Computer Online
Step #4: Get Your E-mail
Step #5: Get Your Township Website onto the Web
Step #6: Create Acceptable Use and Privacy
Policies
Quick Start
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Account Setup
The standard Township Package includes 5 dial-in accounts with e-mail access, 1 dial-in account
with access to the Township's web server, and space on a web server to host a Township website.
Townships have the option of adding additional users and enhanced services as their needs
grow.
What steps do I follow?
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To initiate the ordering process, send a completed copy of the online
Order Form and a Letter of Commitment or a Purchase Order to the Not-for-Profit
Support Team, or contact the Not-for-Profit Support Team directly.
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As part of the standard Township package, Merit will help your Township
establish, configure, and maintain an Internet domain name.
your-township.mi-twp.org
Your Township will use its domain name for its website and e-mail accounts.
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Your next step will be to configure your computer to use your modem to access
the Internet through the MichNet dial-in network.
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Once you are online, you will need to configure your e-mail software
to send and receive your mail.
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If you will be responsible for your Township's website, next you will need to
copy your Township's website files (using FTP) to a web server.
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Your Township has a responsibility to ensure that appropriate care is
taken with any information shared via your web server and/or email. Merit urges you
to develop acceptable use and privacy policies and make them readily available
from your website.
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