Last Post for Lisa

As many of you are aware, I accepted a position at our Corporate office and will no longer play an active role in Operations Personnel and Training. I may occasionally post something here if I find it relevant but the main author of this blog will be Mike Halliburton. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or feedback about any of the sites and programs we’ve initiated over the years, please contact him at michael.halliburton@kirbycorp.com or at my old number.

It has been a pleasure working with you all. Mike will continue to help you get adjusted to online Kirby resources.l Everyone – as always, remember – safety first!

Creating a User Profile

I’ve said this many times before. Our www.kirbycorpjobs.com website is like a Myspace or Facebook for our employees. It isn’t as advanced and you can’t put your band’s favorite songs on it but you can put up a picture and some information as you would a Myspace Profile.

The first thing you do is log in. Once logged in, you will see the Tendenci home page:

 

To edit your profile, select your name underneath the tabs (shown by the blue arrow). It will bring you to your personal home page. From this personal home page, you can change your picture, add career information, add educational information, etc. Be careful. This is online and it is always best to put only information you want the world to see. This is just good practice while online on any site.

Why should you change these things? To create community! Some of you I talk to on a regular basis but I don’t know much about you, much less what you look like! By putting this information into a profile, you can get to know one another. The most important one is picture. If you put a personal picture up, it will be beside any comment you make instead of a generic avatar. It is your online identity per se. An avatar. And people can put a face with the name (and for visual people like me, that’s a very good thing!)

I encourage you all to explore this part of www.kirbycorpjobs.com. Think of it as your own little place on the website. Check back to the blog soon to learn how to upload all of your cool photos that you send to me! YOU can upload them to the site!

Lisa

For more information regarding any of our Kirby websites, please contact Lisa in the Vessel Personnel Department. Salus Primus

Website Updates

I have completed a few upgrades on all websites.

www.kirbywins.com – I have heard rumblings that the prices on this site are too high. If this is the case, PLEASE let me know what item it is. I can’t do anything about it unless I know specifics. I appreciate your help in this manner!

www.kirbycorpjobs.com – Usernames and passwords have been changed so that all usernames on the external sites are your email address. A lot of people have voiced concern about the number of logins – this should reduce that number by one.

Pictures from the picnic and from hurricane damage have been posted here. Training Matrices have been sent to email and to the boat mail.

Thank you!

Post-Hurricane Update

Hope everyone made it through Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. For the last month, it seems like we have only been dealing with hurricanes! Hopefully, the season is coming to a close, and everyone can recover!

Kirby WIN update: Due to the storms, our techs were not able to have the new points-counter ready to go before the end of the month. This new feature will help you see how many points you have left to award at any given time, and if you pull the correct report, you will be able to see who you gave what points to.

On October 1st, I will upload our new eligible employees into the database. Remember, deck crews must be employed a full quarter before they are eligible.

During September, the website sent out membership renewal notifications on its own accord. This simply means that your log on name is up for renewal. I am currently working to get this resolved. Don’t worry; you are still part of the Kirby family

Don’t forget about our new calendar contest! Send your pictures to me now! The contest closes at 11:59 PM on October 15.

Take care, and be safe.

Kirby WIN Hint and Question

FYI – If you are having trouble logging into www.kirbywins.com, please note that the username is case sensitive. This means you must capitalize the first letter of your first and last name in your email address. This is good practice for email too. Email is not case-sensitive so you can log in by capitalizing the first letter of your names!

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the program so far. I welcome any feed back you may have. Please leave your questions here and I’ll respond!

Thanks!

Logging In Question

I am continually asked: ”Can we have the same log in for everything? There are too many passwords!” The real answer is no, we can’t set up your all your accounts to have the same log in. However, there are ways we can condense log in information to where you only have 3 logins.

The websites www.kirbycrew.com, www.kirbycorptraining, and www.extranet.kirbycorp.com have set logins that can not be changed. These logins should have been sent to you or your boat should have received an internet matrix that shows the formulas of how to login.

The Kirby WIN program was designed for the username to be the same as your www.kirbycrew.com. The websites are not tied together, so you’ll have to log in on both, but the information is exact same. Kirby WIN IS case sensitive, though, so just practice always capitalizing the first letter of your first and last name whenever you log in.

Your login for www.kirbycorpjobs.com has been set up diffently, but this one can be changed. To do this, please see a post I made with detailed instructions. It’s easy to do, and by doing so, you can reduce your login counts by one because you can set it to be the same as your email login information. Like Kirby WIN, it’s not tied together, but at least it’s the same information to remember.

By doing this, you have a different login for the extranet and www.kirbycorptraining.com, but the rest of your logins will be the same. That’s three different sets of information to remember – much less than 5 or 6! At the most, you may have 4 or more depending on if you choose to set up accounts on the safety and tech blogs.

Resetting Username and Password on kirbycorpjobs.com

You have been assigned a username and password for the website www.kirbycorpjobs.com and should have received this information in you www.kirbycrew.com email address. For the most part, your user name is the first initial of your first name and your last name (example: John Doe’s username would be JDoe). If you have not received this information, please call 713-435-1642.

You can change this to be like your other username and passwords by following this step-by-step instruction.

1. Direct your web browser to www.kirbycorpjobs.com and log in. Check your email for your log in information.
2. Once logged in, you will see something called the ‘Tendenci Console’. The Tendenci Console is a home page where you can edit your profile and use the site like a social networking site.  On this page, you will see five tabs and underneath the tabs, a sentence saying ‘Your profile was last updated on ___. Please take a moment to update your profile now’. Click the link, ‘Update Your Profile Now’. The other way to access your profile is to click on your Username found underneath the tab.
3. Your profile will open up. To change your username, scroll down to Section G.  In Section G, change your username and password and press ‘Submit Changes’. You may fill out any other information you want.
4. From this point on, your username will be whatever you told it to be. One suggestion is to change your username to your email address because both the www.kirbycrew.com and www.kirbywins.com username is your email.

You can NOT change your username for www.kirbycrew.com or www.kirbywins.com. You may change your passwords for these sites but the username must remain your email address.

Computer terminology pt. 1

Not familiar with computers? Have no idea what a URL is? Get lost when we talk?

No problem! Here’s a few words that you may want to keep near a computer for reference if you ever call me and have no idea what I’m talking about.

Internet Explorer: It’s an internet browser that hosts the world wide web. To access it, click the blue ‘E’ that’s either on your desktop or your Start Tool Bar.

Web Browser: The application that allows users to interact with the text, pictures, and content on the web page.

URL field/box: A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet (www.dictionary.com, www.techterms.com). Simply put, it’s a web address. Every website, which is a group of webpages, has an unique web address or URL. To go to the page, you must either type it in the URL field box at the top of the web browser or click on a link.

Tool bar:A tool bar is a set of icons or buttons that are part of a software program’s interface or an open window. There are different tool bars on the internet window. The first is the URL field/box/toolbar. The second is Menu Bar which has ‘File’ ‘Edit’ etc. The most important of these is the ‘Internet Options’ menu because you can delete cookies and temporary files from this location.

Temporary Internet Files: Temporary Internet Files are downloaded information from web sites you visit.

Cookies: Cookies are data sent to your computer by a Web server that records your actions on a certain web site. This includes information about passwords. Sometimes these are kept in the memory and will automatically recall them. To clear this, you must go to the Internet Options. Select the ‘Tools’ menu on the toolbar. Click Internet Options. You will see ‘Delete Temporary Files’ and ‘Delete Cookies’. Click either of these buttons to delete the stored data.

Link: A hyperlink or link is the physical address that is in text that you are reading that you can click to access the website. From techterms.com, a link is When you are browsing the Web and you see a highlighted and underlined word or phrase on a page, there is a good chance you are looking at a link. By clicking on a link, you can “jump” to a new Web page or a completely different Web site. While text links are typically blue and underlined, they can be any color and don’t have to be underlined. Images can also serve as links to other Web pages. When you move the cursor over a link in a Web page, the arrow will turn into a little hand, letting you know that it is a link. The term “hypertext” comes from the way links can quickly send you to another Web destination.

Desktop: The desktop is the screen that’s on the monitor when no window is open. It is like a physical desktop; it can hold items that you need to access quickly such as commonly used files or shortcuts to webpages you frequent.

Window: A window is an area on the screen that displays information for a specific program (techterms.com). Anything you open opens up in a window. It usually has toolbars and icons that are uneditable but the middle of the window houses the content you are wanting to interact with, be it reading or sending email or awarding points.

These are just a few of the words that I may use when discussing the computer/internet.

Question: Are there any other words that you don’t know what they mean? Let me know! Leave a comment!

Kirby Sites

Please add one more site to your favorites. If you need to know the other 4, click here.

www.kirbywins.com is the recognition site for our deck crews. More information about Kirby WIN program can be found on our employee site.

Kirby WIN Program

I’m proud to announce that emails have successfully gone out regarding the Kirby WIN Program. It’s great to see people using it and I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback. Thanks! You should have received log on instructions in your email on Monday. If you did not, please call me.

Here’s a quick run through the Awards Catalog Site (www.kirbywins.com). 

This is a picture of the navigation bar on the site.

Product Catalog – Redeem Points - You can view the items in the Catalog that you can purchase with your points.

Search Catalog by Points Range – Find what you can currently afford.

Your Account / Points History – You can view the history of your points. It’s like a checking account – you will see credits and debits of points.

Edit Your Password/Profile – You can change your password here. Please do so. Remember, these points are money. If you do not change your password, people can log onto your account and use the points and there is no way to recover them.

Make a Product Suggestion – Want something that isn’t in the catalog? Suggest it here!

Account Questions – Have a problem with your account? Ask a customer service rep here.

Submit Safety Tip/Suggestion – These will be used for various publications both online and off.

This is just a rundown of what’s all on the site. Remember, items can be added to the catalog so you will be able to get what you want (and when you want if you let me know now!).

Have a great day, and be safe out there. Be mindful of the job and you may just receive points!

- Lisa