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Groupsites feature the ability for members to communicate one-on-one via private messages. Private messages can be sent from within your Groupsite, or created and replied to directly from an email account. Besides your email inbox (provided by your GMail, Yahoo!, etc. or your company's email service provider), you can also view sent and received Private Messages directly from your Groupsite.

Just log-in to your Groupsite. Then go to My Settings > My Private Messages. 

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Click the Sent or Received button at the top of the page to toggle between ..

To help members stay informed, as well as to support any member's Groupsite-related email activity, Groupsites have a message notifications feature in all Groupsites. Message notifications alert and inform members of received private messages, updates to subscribed forums and topics, and notification of any problems with emails.

Notification indicators are visible in the Groupsite's main navigation bar:

By rolling their mouse cursor over the Notifications menu option, members can view a short summary of new and previously viewed messages:

Clicking directly on a specific message in the summary will take members to a full page view of the message ..

As you may have noticed, on Friday, January 14, 2011, we fixed an outstanding bug with the automatic invitation reminders. "If you do not respond to an invitation, you will receive up to 10 invitation reminders."  The frequency is defaulted to twice a week.

Since this automatic reminder wasn't working for so long, it caught some people by surprise:(   What you are now seeing on the pending members page is the automatic reminder invitations (which were broken, now restored).  Unfortunately, we don't show a distinction between originally invited and last sent (auto reminded).

The fix triggered a domino effect because of ..

• A member can reset their password at any time by clicking on the "Forgot Password?" link, located on the login page of any Groupsite. (For ex: https://champions.groupsite.com/login).
  

• A "forgot password" link is also located under in the sidebar box login area, visible on the home page of Public and Limited visibility Groupsites:

• Groupsite Managers can refer a member to reset their passwords from these links.

• If the member has forgotten their User Name (email address), a Groupsite Manager can provide this information to the member. Managers can view a member's email from the member's profile (when contact information is shared), ..

Once a file is uploaded into the File Cabinet, a Groupsite manager and/or the member who uploaded the file can:

• replace the file with a new one
• change the file's name
• change the upload date of the file
• enter or modify a description of the file 

This is done by editing the file. Here's how:

1. Log-in to your Groupsite and go to the SHARE tab.

2. Select the File Cabinet subtab.

3. Locate the file you want to change.

4. Click on the cogwheel button:

5. An "Edit File" window will pop up:

Enter the changes you want in ..

Groupsites are designed to help groups make things happen. While each specific group has its own defined goals and objectives, sharing your personal objectives is also important in helping to make things happen. (In a Groupsite, you can do this with  your Member Objectives feature).

Member Objectives enable you to share what you are pursuing, personally or professionally, within your group. By sharing your objectives, you empower other members to learn how they may assist you.

You can add your own objective to your profile page by first clicking the MY SETTINGS tab. Then select the My Objectives sub-tab.

This will ..

Maybe you've invited someone under an old email address. Or, you've invited someone and they've verbally declined, or requested to be removed as a pending member. Regardless of the reason, if you have extended an invitation that you need to withdraw, here's how to do it:

If You Are a Groupsite Member (but not a Manager)

1. Go to the INVITE tab.

2. Select the "Pending Members" sub-tab. You will see a list of email addresses for any outstanding invitations you have issued.

3. Locate the email address of the pending member you want to uninvite. Then click on the "withdraw" ..

Most social networks are "individual-centric" and begin with you creating your "page" which is all about you. While Groupsites are "group-centric" and begin by creating a Groupsite (which is all about the group), you are an important part of any group where you're an active participant. And, it's important to let other group members know who you are by keeping your profile page up to date.

Here's how:

A unique feature of a Groupsite is its dual profile. Each member has both a Professional and a Social profile.  You can elect to show either or both. In fact, how much ..

A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Facebook's amazing growth started with one simple premise: Why wait until the end of the school year to get a yearbook and see who that red-haired girl was who sat in the back of your Psychology 101 lecture hall? Wouldn't it be nice to know on day one who was in your class?

Nothing is more meaningful than true face-to-face communication.  However, when online, having a face (as opposed to just a email address or avatar) humanizes the experience to a certain extent.

Here's how to do this in a Groupsite:

After logging ..