Tips for New Members

We have a number of new community members joining us from Emerson Exchange Dusseldorf and from those who attended Emerson Exchange Nashville last year. Here's a few tips to get going.

1. Join the tracks in your areas of interest. You will be able to participate by commenting or starting new threads and you will receive emails when new discussion threads, replies, blog posts, etc. occur. At each destination track, you'll find the join group link top right:
   
2. You can also subscribe to a track via RSS and email digest. Here's an earlier post on setting up email preferences.
3. By clicking the top right "Add group to favorites" you can get shortcuts to the areas of interest.
   
   
   You'll have a shortcut list top right. Here's mine:
   
4. Use the top right search to help you find people and content. It has a pull-down scope to search the entire community or the specific track where you are currently located:
   
5. We've added Google Translate to pages throughout the site.
   
   If you are not as comfortable with English as with your native language, try converting the page to your native language. If you're English speaking and see non-English posts, you can convert to English to see the conversation. It's far from a perfect translation, but I've found it gives a good idea of the conversations that are taking place.
6. I have a number of "How To" posts from back when the community went live. Here's a link to some of the posts.

If you have any questions, additional tips to share, or anything else that's on your mind, add a comment.

Jim Cahill

• 27 Jun 2012 4:24 PM
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• 王敏辉

  

  • 4 Jul 2012 2:02 AM

  Hi Jim,

  Should we can download customer list? we want to manage all china register customer easily.

  To this soft-platform, in order to add interactive actions ,Should we can assign "score" or other things to customers when they publish / replay blog/disscustions. So markeing persons can add more actions according "score".

  Thanks

  Sammy

  SammyWang  王敏辉

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• Jim Cahill

  

  • 5 Jul 2012 3:07 PM

  In reply to 王敏辉:

  Hi Sammy, The best way to see who is in a particular group is to look at the member tab. Since it's a peer-to-peer community, the control of who is a member of which track is left entirely in the hands of the community member.

  There is a scoring system built in, but unfortunately it's not very visible. You can see it with the number of stars when you hover over someone's name like this:
   

  The scoring is based upon activities such as posting, friending, verified answers, etc.

  I'm looking into ways to make it more visible so members can this with each post of fellow members.

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