Z Communications is the name for the overarching entity including Z Magazine, ZNet, Z Media Institution, Z Video Productions, and Z Education Online.

We try to anticipate problems, below…but you can always write us for assistance, too.

Using the site you may indeed notice that some areas are “off limits” for you. Beyond the conmpletely public main site that everyone can access with no conditions, this may occur for the forums, blogs, commenting, ZSpace, and diverse other areas as well. To be able to see content in any and all of these areas you need only sign up as a Z Member – which entails only a couple of minutes filling in an online form. It costs nothing. You can do it at our Sign In Page. We do this because we want to build community, we want you to have a ZSpace page, and we want to be able to contact you in the event of any problems, not to mention sending you weekly updates.

Once you are a Z Member, free though it is, you receive email updates about once a week, have access to forums, blogs, etc., and even get your own ZSpace page where you can enter your biography, your preferences about books, a photo, etc., and enjoy some other basic options as well.

To get more options, however, such as having your own blog, being able to post in all forums, being able to comment throughout the site, receiving nightly email commentaries, having full access to Z Magazine online, uploading your writing, photos, and even videos to your ZSpace page, enjoying steep discounts in the Z store, and much else as well, you would have to become a Sustainer – (see more below).

The forums are a place where you can interact more directly with other Sustainers, ZWriters, as well as seek and exchange help, information, and skills with other forum goers. There are also numerous forums to ask about Z, Z policy, guidelines, problems with the site, and just about anything else.

Hardly a multinational, but more appropriately, an international of folks committed to changing the world. And we have videos from all over the globe both produced by the ZVideo project as well as uploaded by ZNet staff for ZNet video, and additionally uploaded by Z Sustainers using ZSpace. To upload video, you must be signed up as a sustainer. Once you have an account, read the instructions found under the top tab labelled “ZNet Content.” There will find instructions for how to upload, view, and edit all your ZNet content — including video.

Z does indeed have some pretty fancy tech tools, so to speak. The tabbed menu has a submenu, below, that highlights subparts of main areas you might wish to access directly. But – yes – you can turn off the submenu so it disappears, by using the red up arrow on the tab menu itself. Should you want to put it back – we recommend doing so – you use the up green arrow.

The left hand menus also in many cases have a techie feature. You roll over the categories to see the list of availabel selections. You can click any to go directly to the associated page. But you can also, when what we call “roll on” is the condition, just roll your cursur over any item to see the display area change in accord. Try it, you will see how it works. Again recommend leaving roll on the condtiion, but, if you prefer, you can toggle, at least some of these menus, to be roll off. Try it, you will see.

As far as getting around, the site is gargantuan but we have populated these tabbed menus and left hand menus in such a way that from pretty much any page you get to pretty much any other page in two clicks at most – or that was the plan, at any rate.

We have made special use of the forum system – creating a whole group of forums especially earmarked for Sustainers to post queries, requests, and offers to one another – about everything from ideas to driving partners, housing, and really anything you want. So this is the way to get such aid…

Yup, we got a store… Linked from the left, and the top tab menu above. There you will find many offerings produced by Z, featuring many Z contributors, including videos, subscriptions to ZMagazine, ZBooks (coming soon), as well as all kinds of other paraphernalia. We do have discount prices which come with various levels of sustainer donations — for instance we offer 20%, 30%, and 50% discounts, and even a whopping $200 of free store products each year to sustainers at various levels. To find out more about discounts and sustainer levels go to our sign up page.