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N.O.D. Administration on vacation
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- Creado: Lunes, 29 Julio 2013 15:27
- Publicado: Lunes, 29 Julio 2013 15:27
The Membership Administration and Webmaster of the New Order of Druids will be on vacation until August 10. E-mails or support tickets sent directly to these departments will not be answered until sometime after August 10.
Thank you for your understanding.
Upgraded membership discount with coupon
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- Creado: Martes, 09 Julio 2013 21:55
- Publicado: Martes, 09 Julio 2013 21:55
On February 1st, 2013, the New Order of Druids reached its 10th birthday!
Back then, we already announced that this will be celebrated with temporary discounts of 10 € on upgraded membership, valid between February 1 and October 31, 2013. The discount prices are therefore 19,95 € (1 year) and 39,95 € (2 years). These discounts are still valid, of course, but they are now handled a little different on the website.
If you are planning to upgrade your account between now and October 31 of this year (or your upgrade will expire in that time and you want to renew), you can apply your discount with this promo coupon code: NOD10
An upgraded membership with NOD includes a membership card and introduction booklet (first time upgrade), access to courses with mentor included, course certificates, access to the Oran Mór quarterly Celtic e-zine, and more! By upgrading your account, you help us cover the expenses required to keep our website and its services running each year again. Read more about the advantages of Upgraded Membership at this link:
http://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/my-account/upgrade-my-account
How to upgrade with the discount price?
- In order to apply the discount, simply go to "My Account" - "Upgrade my Account". Then click "Upgrade now".
- Select whether you want to upgrade for 1 or 2 years, and click the "upgrade now" button below.
- Enter your invoice address (first time upgrade) and continue.
- In the field next to "Enter coupon code if available", you fill out the coupon code: NOD10 and click "redeem coupon".
- The prices near the top of the page will now reflect the discount price!
- Click "pay now" (for payment with credit card or Paypal) or "pay offline" (for payment with money transfer by bank) and follow further instructions to complete your payment.
Please note:
- The discount coupon is valid only until October 31, 2013.
- The discount does NOT apply to family membership prices, as they are already discounts themselves.
- There will no longer be a free copy of the book "Spirit of Dán" included in a 2 year upgrade, as there are no more copies left.
Learn more about the upgraded membership at this link:
http://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/my-account/upgrade-my-account
Also check our FAQ:
http://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/home/frequently-asked-questions
Welcome to the new NOD website!
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- Creado: Miércoles, 19 Junio 2013 18:39
- Publicado: Miércoles, 19 Junio 2013 18:39
It was long in coming, but it's finally here: the brand new website of the New Order of Druids!
As you will notice, the website has been given a complete new design. The top menu covers all important areas of the website, and by hovering over them you will also see the related sub-menus on which you can click. Of course, there will be more menus and submenus when you are logged in on the website.
Here's an overview of what's new:
1. Brand new "activity wall" (now called "newsfeed") with features similar to those of Facebook.
2. A new design for your user profile
3. Improved private messenger and enhanced chat bar
4. A brand new "Friends Map" which allows zooming and connection lines between you and your friends.
5. Circle Forums have been rearranged. It is now also possible to "like" or "dislike" a topic on the forums.
6. Brand new Grove of Dana online Druid college (see below)
7. Nemetons Map: search on the map for a Nemeton near you
8. Enhanced NOD Circles with attached forum
9. Newly implemented NODCast - the NOD Podcast
A note on the new Grove of Dana online Druid College:
We have started using new software for handling our College courses. When you go to "Druid College" and "Getting Started", you will find a step-by-step tutorial to get you going on how to start following a course.
If you are already taking a course, you don't need to do anything different. Upgraded Members who are following a course with mentor on our old College software, can continue doing so until they have completed the course. They can go directly to the old College using this link: http://college.druidcircle.org/moodle/ (link also at the bottom of the "My Courses" page). If you only just started a course there though, we recommend that you re-enrol to start at the new college software.
Right now we are still in the process of setting up our mentors in the new college software, and copying over the last of the courses. This should all be completed in the next few days. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, or you have run into what could be an overlooked bug on the website, do not hesitate to let us know.
Preparations for the new website
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- Creado: Miércoles, 22 Mayo 2013 14:56
- Publicado: Miércoles, 22 Mayo 2013 14:56
It is possible that you may currently experience the website as slow, or that you are logged out again automatically after a few hours. We are aware of these issues, and are currently working on a completely new version of the website of the New Order of Druids. This new website is expected to go online in June or July.
In anticipation of the launch of our new website, we would like to inform you that the following website features will be discontinued:
- Image Gallery: if you uploaded your own pictures to the general image gallery and you don't have a copy of them anymore, please download them again as soon as possible.
- Druid Blogs: if you posted blog entries of which you do not have a copy, please copy them to your computer as soon as possible.
Thank you for your understanding.
New book: King Arthur and the 'Gods' of the Round Table
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- Creado: Viernes, 03 Mayo 2013 20:46
- Publicado: Viernes, 03 Mayo 2013 20:46
We thought you might be interested to know that a new book has been released by David Dom, the founder of the New Order of Druids.The book is called 'King Arthur and the Gods of the Round Table'. As the title implies, this book is not about investigating King Arthur's historical origins, but rather about his origins as a Solar God in the sky, at the head of the Celtic pantheons of both Wales and Ireland. What if Arthur's legendary 'Twelve Battles' are really the twelve Zodiac signs through which the sun travels throughout the year? And what if the Knights of the Round Table are mortal memories of ancient Celtic gods - of Wales and Ireland? Even the Ladies of Camelot, such as Queen Guinevere and Morgan Le Fay, can in fact be retraced to their origins as ancient Goddesses of the earth. The survival of these gods and goddesses in Arthurian legend stands as a shining testament of a story far more ancient, but by no means lost to us...
The book is currently available for purchase from Lulu.com at this link:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/david-dom/king-arthur-and-the-gods-of-the-round-table/paperback/product-20973295.html
If you are interested in purchasing a signed copy, please contact the author directly. You can do so on this related website and/or Facebook page:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/kingarthurandgodsofroundtable/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/King-Arthur-and-the-Gods-of-the-Round-Table/481260768578329
The author's thanks goes out to a few people for their valuable help to complete this book:
- Narcissa Mia for the cover artwork and Jules Mather for editing/correcting, both esteemed members of N.O.D.
- Karen Han for revising/correcting, head of the 'Arthurian Myths and Legends' Yahoo discussion group
- Yuri Leitch for his foreword, he is the author of 'Signs & Secrets of the Glastonbury Zodiac'
We hope you will consider to purchase this book and that you will find its contents to your liking!
Our 10th anniversary celebration!
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- Creado: Viernes, 01 Febrero 2013 15:49
- Publicado: Viernes, 01 Febrero 2013 15:49
Today is Imbolc, the beginning of Spring according to the Celtic calendar, but ten years ago, it was also the beginning of the New Order of Druids. It all began with a small and simple website with discussion forums, which were opened on February 1, 2003. From there, it has continued to grow into what it has become today, for which we should especially offer thanks to you, the members of N.O.D. who kept our community active, and who helped make all this possible.
In order to celebrate our 10th anniversary with you, we have some special news to share with you, so read on!
UPGRADED MEMBERS and contributors can use this link (make sure you are logged in first), where it will also be possible to download all previous editions:
Ovate Youth Course: book now also available
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- Creado: Lunes, 24 Septiembre 2012 21:24
- Publicado: Lunes, 24 Septiembre 2012 21:24
We are happy to announce that the Ovate Youth Course is now also available for purchase as a book at our online store. The book is titled "Walking With Trees" and encompasses the entire course, excluding the assignments only, which can of course be downloaded at the Grove of Dana online Druid college. The book is available for only $18 USD.
You can find this book at our online store on this link:
http://www.cafepress.com/nodshop.653454002
Vacation N.O.D. Administration
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- Creado: Jueves, 06 Septiembre 2012 14:57
- Publicado: Jueves, 06 Septiembre 2012 14:57
The main administration of N.O.D. (membership administration and webmaster) will be on vacation from September 10 to September 20. Any inquiries for these departments will not be addressed until after the 20th.
We are also aware that there are some persistent issues with the "Activity Wall" and are still awaiting the software provider's solution, but it may be that a solution will not be implemented until after the 20th, for which we apologize.
Thank you for your understanding.
Possible problems with registering a new account
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- Creado: Lunes, 30 Julio 2012 11:24
- Publicado: Lunes, 30 Julio 2012 11:24
It may be possible that new members will experience problems registering a new account. An error may appear that the system is unable to connect to the anti-spam filter.
Every new registration is always compared to the spam filter of the www.stopforumspam.com website, in order to keep spammers away from our community. It may happen, occassionally, that the website is down or otherwise unreachable, which then prevents new registrations from being accepted.
Unfortunately, this is something outside our power to control. If this occurs to you, we recommend that you try again on a frequent basis, usually the problem persists only for a short time.
This issue will only occur for new registrations. It does not affect logging in or other parts of our website.
Ovate Youth Course now available!
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- Creado: Viernes, 01 Junio 2012 13:55
- Publicado: Viernes, 01 Junio 2012 13:55
We are proud to announce that as of today, the "Ovate Youth Course" has officially been launched!
The Ovate Youth Course is an immediate follow-up to the Bardic Youth Course, which must be completed first before enrolment is possible. Naturally, the Ovate Youth Course is also written to be aimed toward children and teenagers, although adults are welcome to take the course too, of course. The course is entirely free of charge, but you need to be a registered member of the New Order of Druids (which is, as you know, also free), and you need to log in at least once every 60 days. If you already registered an account in the Grove of Dana college, you can use this same account to join the Ovate Youth Course (as well as any other courses).
The Ovate Youth Course is based on the same system as the Bardic Youth Course, which makes it a self-paced course which works with assignments. This doesn't mean that the student is expected to write tons of text in essays, and we have kept essays to an absolute minimum, giving more attention to creativity and experience.
It is possible to see a preview of both the Bardic Youth Course and Ovate Youth Course here:
Bardic Youth Course:
http://college.druidcircle.org/previews/byouthpreview.pdf
Ovate Youth Course:
http://college.druidcircle.org/previews/OYC-preview.pdf