What every new member needs to know.

• Position: ABAMN Professional Online Community

Our new professional online community is a private meeting place exclusively for ABA Marketing Network Members.

If you have just joined the online community, you will need to set up a profile, including a user name (your e-mail address) and password. You only need to do this once. After accepting the e-mail invitation, you will be asked to complete a brief one-page profile. Once you are on the online community, you can decide how much, or how little, of this information you will want to share with the group--no one needs to see your birth year if you don't want them to. If you are already a member of another online community powered by CollectiveX, you can simply accept the e-mail invitation to our online community and you will immediately be added as a member. Once in the Network's online community, you will see seven tabs that will help us communicate:

* Summary. This is a snapshot of everything that is happening within the Network's online community.

* Communicate. This is where we can create "forums" that contain "topics" which will allow us to share questions, ideas and discussions outside the clutter of inboxes full of spam.

* Share. This is where you can get to the calendar, file cabinet, where to post and store documents, and photo galleries, where members can upload images they have found useful or samples of collateral. The calendar of events can be...