-          Login
-          Click on 'Edit my profile' in the menu bar
-          Add in as much information as you feel comfortable:
There are 7 sub menu items: Basic Information / Contact  / Employment  / Education  / Image  / Feeds  / Notifications
-          especially these particular fields in  the 'basic information' should be added to help people find information about you and start collaboration:

o   About Me - this id displayed in the "About Me" section on your public profile page. This gives information about you and is upfront so you dont have to click the 'view all' to find out more

o   Interests - Each professional Interest becomes a Community. You can check existing interests in Communities menu before adding interests here. I have interests added such as: Integrating technology, technology, digital storytelling, social networking, teaching and learning.  The communities of interest are a great way to find like minded people and track their online activity.

o   The other sub menus that are good to add is '˜Image' -  a digital image / avatar

o   Feeds - Feeds are external RSS feeds which contain your activity on the web. For instance, if you have a blog you can enter its RSS feed here and your colleagues will see your activity. Don't enter a blog produced by someone else, because entries from it will show up under your name. I have added my feeds from twitter, del.icio.us, flicker and my blog

Once you have started to add this type of information then you will start to be more visual and people will start to watch your professional online activity. You will also be adding colleagues either via the communities of interest or via the search.

I hope this helps a little for getting started in me.edu.au once you are ready we of course also have the new functionality of the blog.

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Posted at 11:21AM Jun 10, 2008 by Kate Venning  |