Editing Your User Profile
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As a blog
author, it's important for you to have both
an Avatar (signature picture) and Biography entered. This is how
author information will be presented in your blog:
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So, let's modify your
profile.
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successfully logged in, you will notice that the links in the upper
right of the screen have changed to Signed
in as Chelsea Starion
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Sign out | Help. |
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If you click the Chelsea
Starion
link, you will go to a series of tabbed pages where you can
modify your profile:
The Membership Tab:
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By default, your user
profile will probably be largely empty, unless you previously provided
us with
bio information or a photo. The tabs in the profile editor
are:
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This is key data that
uniquely identifies you to our system and governs your access to its
features. The information displayed here corresponds to the
required entry fields on our Join page.
Regardless of what you may have entered on the Join page, you can
freely change any of these items by clicking the associated Edit
buttons.
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| Personal |
The Personal tab
contains additional information about you that will be displayed to the
public. Here is where your photo and biographical sketch are
maintained, along with additional information.
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Newsletters
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As mentioned in the
documentation on the Join page, each of the Annenberg Public Policy
Center initiatives maintains a series of email newsletters that are
sent to lists on a regular basis. The Newsletters tab provides a
handy means of managing your subscriptions to any or all of these
newsletters.
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| Impersonation |
Not everybody will
see this tab. As described more fully under the Group Publishing
help topic, our system includes an Impersonation feature that permits
authorized members to pose as other authorized users for purposes of
posting blog entries under their names. Impersonation can only be
granted by a Talking Justice administrator and the people they may
impersonate are also assigned by an administrator, based upon prior
consent by the person to be impersonated.
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Editing Membership Information
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| The Membership tab
contains entries for User Name, Password, Email and Time Zone.
This section will describe how to change all of them. |
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To change an item,
click the Edit button at the right: 
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| Changing User Name:
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When you click the Edit button, the User Name display
area becomes an editable form. Enter your new choice of User Name
into the text field as shown. Then click Save. To exit without making
any changes, click Cancel.
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Changing Password:
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When click the Edit button, the Password display
area becomes an editable form. You must first enter your old
password; then your choice for a new password, twice. You must
enter the new password exactly the same twice as a safeguard against
typing errors. It is in your interest to type these entries; don't just
copy and paste them!
To commit your changed password, click the Change Password button. To
exit without making any changes, click Cancel.
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| Changing Primary
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The
email address used for membership is considered your primary email
address. Unless you specify otherwise (on the Personal tab), it is
held private and not revealed to anyone outside the system. Any
time
that the Talking Justice system needs to contact you (as, for instance,
to satisfy your Forgot my Password
request), it will do so at the
primary email address.
You can change your primary email address by clicking the Edit button. |
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When you click the Edit button, the Email display area
becomes and editable form. Type a new email address into the
entry field and click Save. To
exit without making any changes, click Cancel.
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| Changing Time Zone: |
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When you click the Edit button, the time zone display
area becomes an editable form. Choose your correct time zone from
the drop-down selector. To make the time zone change permanent,
click the Save button.
To exit without making any changes, click the Cancel button.
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The
Personal Tab
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As mentioned above, the Personal tab permits you to enter
and edit information that will more clearly communicate with the public
who you are. As with the Membership
tab, each item can be changed by clicking the Edit button. In some cases,
you can provide additional information by clicking the Add button.
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Adding/Changing an Avatar:
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In Internet forum
terminology, an Avatar is a
signature image. For many members of online communities, the
avatar is a fanciful way to present an alternate identity to others;
and you may see virtually any kind
of image used as an avatar. For Talking
Justice blogging purposes, we ask that your avatar be an actual
photographic image of yourself.
Unless we have already uploaded an avatar image for you, this item will
most likely be blank. You can add an avatar (or change an
existing avatar image) by clicking the Edit
button.
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When you click the Edit button, the avatar display
area becomes an editable form. Any existing avatar image is
displayed on the left of the upper portion of this form. Click
the Browse button to locate a
new avatar image to upload:
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| A Choose File requester will appear: |
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Use the familiar
controls in this requester to locate an image file on your computer and
then click the Open
button. You may select images of type: .JPG, .GIF and .PNG.
Note: If you prefer to select an image that is already on the Internet
somewhere, you can enter its web address - its URL - into the File name: text field and then click
the Open button.
Note also that if the image you select is larger than 100 pixels in
either width or height, it will be rescaled automatically when uploaded.
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When an image has
been selected, click the Uload File
button. This loads a copy of the
image into the New Avatar area
of the form. This is a kind of staging area where you can compare
the new avatar with the old one before actually replacing it.
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To accept the new
avatar, click the Replace button.
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The new avatar as it
appears in the Personal tab
and as it will appear in your blog.
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Change Name:
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You can choose to
provide us with more complete name information: a Title, Middle
Initial, etc.
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Note
that this information is stored in the Talking
Justice contact management system and used (for instance) to
generate mailing labels. However, it's the User Name as displayed
on the Membership tab that will be displayed along with your photo on
your blog posting page.
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When you have
completed the fields in the Name section,
click the Save button to
commit them. To exit without making any changes, click Cancel.
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Adding/Changing Email Addresses:
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system supports multiple email addresses. The one that appears on
the Membership tab is your
primary email and is used any time our system needs to communicate with
you. It is normally kept private. If you wish to enter
additional email addresses, you can do it from the Personal tab. Click the Add button: |
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| When you click the
Add button, the email display area becomes an editable form. You
can enter a new email address into the Email
entry field on this form: |
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provided a new email address, click the Save button to add it to your list
of email addresses. To exit without making any changes, click Cancel. |
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Changing
Email Options:
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Because this section
of the Personal tab is closely
coupled with the Talking Justice
email notification system, it will be discussed in the Help file for Email Notification.
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Add/Edit a Biography:
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The other essential
component of your authorship identity is a biography. This should
typically not be more than 250 words. To enter (or edit) your bio,
click the Edit button.
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When you have clicked
the Edit button, the bio
display area becomes an editable form. In this case, it is a
rich-text form with controls for typographic enhancement, hyperlinking,
etc.
Enter your biography. When done, click the Replace button. To exit
without making any changes, click Cancel.
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Add/Edit your Signature:
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You can enter a
signature to appear below any communications you generate from the
Talking Justice community. To do so, click the Edit button:
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When you have clicked
Edit, the Signature display area becomes an editable form. As
with the biography form, this is a rich text editor permitting
typographic styles.
Enter your signature as you wish it to appear and click the Replace button. To exit
without making changes, click Cancel.
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