You can edit your profile information by first logging into HEOP Connect. Next on the gray navigation bar select My Account » My Profile » Edit Profile

You can change your password through the gray navigation bar. Simply go to My Account » Settings » General. We recommend that you use an alpha-numeric password. If you cannot think of a secure password, you can generate one at StrongPasswordGenerator.com.

You can upload a picture, or avatar, through the gray navigation bar that appears at the very top of the page. Simply go to: My Account » Profile » Change Avatar to upload a new image.

Our website also supports Gravatar, a globally recognized avatar. You can create a Gravatar account at http://www.gravatar.com.

You can change your profile display name through the gray navigation bar. Simply go to My Account » Profile » Edit. Replace the information under “Display Name” with your desired display name and hit “Save.”

Since we do not use a wall system like Facebook, we needed to add a system that allows you to mention while at the same time alerting them via e-mail or notification. @mentions allowed exactly that.

If you are trying to reach out to specific group members, simply put the @ symbol in front of their username and it will send a notification to their email address and show up in their @mention activity stream.

You can update your profile information from the gray navigation bar. Go to My Account » Profile » Edit. There you will be greeted with several profile sections. Simply click on that section to display edit options.

To make HEOP Connect an easy to share and communicate community, we integrated easy media posting feature. Easy media posting allows you to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and much more on your status updates. So how do you use it? Simple! You simply enter the URL found on the sites and paste it to your status. Please note that as an added security measure, we made it so that you only a link (URL) to your update without any additional content.

Example: You go to YouTube and find a video you like. Simply click the “Share” button found under the video and copy the link found in the box. The link should look something like this: http://youtu.be/WpZEnzzdAEA. Now all you need to do is paste this link to your status update box on HEOP Connect. Our system will recognize the link and do the coding work for you. Your video is now published in your status update.

In Facebook, “friending” is social networking: Members search for people whom they know, used to know, or want to know. The friending tool enables them to contact these people or to accept someone’s request for contact (and determine the extent to–and ways in which–the person can contact and interact). “Friending” someone on our network is one of the main goals of the site. “Friending” someone enables us to contact one another and share resources and knowledge. By accepting a person’s friend request you become part of his or her “‘network.”
To accept a “friend request,” you can either follow the link in the e-mail you receive requesting friendship, or once you’ve logged in, look again at the gray tool bar on the top right; hover your mouse over “Notifications.” Then click on the number of notifications you have pending. You will then be directed to a web page that allows you to accept or reject the friendship request.

The Notification link (on the top right bar of the site) indicates if you have a new message, friend request, or invitation to join a group.
How do I change my email account where I receive email notifications?
You can change your email notification email through the gray bar. Go to My Account » My Settings » General. Re-write your preferred email account in the ‘Account Email’ field and hit “Save.”

“Like” is a way to give positive feedback to a post or an update. Favorite is a way to connect with things you care about on HEOP Connect. By ‘favoriteing’ something, you subscribe to that post which will help keep you in touch with any changes or replies made to that post or update. You can “Like” and “Favorite” content that your friends or groups post to give them feedback.

To send an email to another member, you can either find them on the member list or you can go to the Connect home page and click your avatar, click the “Messages” link on the left, and click “Compose.” Start typing the person’s first name in the addressee box and the program will give you a list of all the members whose names include the letters you’re typing. Next to the addressee box is an empty box for copying other members. Do the same thing in this box that you just did for the addressee. Each time, you do this, a new box will appear for another person to whom you might want to send a copy of the message.

The settings on your profile page (available by going to the top gray navigation bar and clicking My Account » My Settings » Notifications) allows you to choose whether you want the site to email you in response to a variety of different actions, such as a message being posted on the activity stream of a group to which you below. Please visit this page to easily change your preferences.

To delete your account, log in to the site and look for the gray navigation bar at the top of the page. Click on My Account » My Settings » Delete Account and follow the directions you see.