Quickstart guide to Executive Networks' Online Peer Networking

Online Peer Networking Quickstart Guide

OPN Email Forum Norms

* If you have a response to an OPN email that is intended for only one person, you must cut and paste their email address in to “To” field versus hitting “Reply All” in an effort not to spam all OPN members.

* If you offer yourself as a resource through an OPN request, please insert your phone number and/or have a signature available within the email in order for members to reach out to you easily.

* In an effort to maintain a robust dialogue within the OPN forum, please try not to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in response to a forum request.

* Please do not send out job postings via the OPN forum. If you would like to network a job with your colleagues, please either send the posting to your Community Connections Director or directly to your networks private OPN forum.

Subscription Settings

Control how you receive email and participate in Online Peer Networking. Each option is briefly described below:

No Change. Use the Executive Networks Online Peer Networking system just as you have been. To do this no new action is required on your part. You will receive all member postings and responses by email and can reply to any of them by email. To start a new topic of your own or make a request to all Executive Networks members, send an email to allnetworks@opn.executivenetworks.com.
Email Notification of new topics only. You will only receive an email when someone has started a new topic. You may reply to this new topic by email. However, you will not receive any other replies from other members to this topic. You will be able to follow a link in the original email to the Online Peer Networking website and participate online or view other replies on the topic.
Email Digest. You will only receive an email once a day – a Digest -- (or more or less often at your choosing) and it will include a list of any new topics and replies that occurred since your last digest. If you wish, you can reply by email to postings in the Digest or follow the links in any Digest to the Online Peer Networking website where you can participate online or choose to receive email notices of future messages on topics that have already been started.
Notification of new topics AND an email digest. Receive an email when someone has started a new topic as described in #2. Also, receive a digest email once a day (or the number of times you set it for) with all new topics and replies combined in that one email as described in #3.
No email. You will not receive any email notifications of activity of topics started or discussed by members. However, you can visit the Online Peer Networking website to read postings by other members. You can also start a new topic on the website and visit it at any time to see if you have replies.

All network members are currently set to option one, All email-No Change.

Changing your options is straightforward. You can follow the instructions below, or if you would like some help contact membershipdesk@executivenetworks.com . We’d be happy to help you by email or over the phone to change your options or help you think through how the Peer Networking system can best serve you.

For email notification of new topics only:

1) Go to http://opn.executivenetworks.com, and log in with your email address, and the password "eda" (if you have cookies enabled, it will remember you after the first visit).

2) Click the "Manage all of my Subscriptions" link in the toolbar, below the list of topics.

3) Leave a check mark for Email Messages for location “/webx/allnetworks/Executive Networks” (or if it is unchecked, check it, and click set)

4) At the bottom of the Manage Subscriptions page, under Other Settings, uncheck the box that says "For email subscriptions, send the full message every time a new message is posted. This is a sitewide setting." Unchecking this box will set your preference to receive email for new topics only.

NOTE: There is no need to make any changes to the drop down box under “Add a subscription:”

2) Click the "Manage all of my Subscriptions" link in the toolbar, below the list of topics.

3) In the checkboxes to the right of "/webx/EDA networks/EDA Networks," check Email Digest and click the Set button. Be sure to uncheck Email Messages if you do not want individual messages by email anymore.

NOTE: There is no need to make any changes to the drop down box under “Add a subscription:”

4) You’re done! You have changed your options for using your Online Peer Networking. You can close this window in your web browser or use the Click Here link on the left frame of your screen to go to the Executive Networks homepage and review your options or archived postings.

Note that the default setting is one digest a day at 2am Pacific time. To change the timing or frequency of digest mailings, click "Preferences" in the toolbar and select "Email Digest Settings" from the links on the Preferences page.

Screenshots with these instructions are at this link:
http://www.edanetworx.com/public_files/digest.html

For notification of new topics AND a Digest:

1) Go to http://opn.executivenetworks.com, and log in with your email address, and the password "eda" (if you have cookies enabled, it will remember you after the first visit).

2) Click the "Manage all of my Subscriptions" link in the toolbar, below the list of topics.
3) In the checkboxes to the right of "/webx/EDA networks/EDA Networks," check Email Messages and check Email Digest, and click the Set button.
4) At the bottom of the Manage Subscriptions page, under Other Settings, uncheck the box that says "For email subscriptions, send the full message every time a new message is posted. This is a sitewide setting." Unchecking this box will set your preference to email for new topics only.

NOTE: There is no need to make any changes to the drop down box under “Add a subscription:”

5) You’re done! You have changed your options for using your Online Peer Networking. You can close this window in your web browser or use the Click Here link on the left frame of your screen to go to the Executive Networks homepage and review your options or archived postings.

Screenshots with these instructions are at this link:
http://www.edanetworx.com/public_files/notice_digest.html

For no email (website-only) participation:

1) Go to http://opn.executivenetworks.com , and log in with your email address, and the password "eda" (if you have cookies enabled, it will remember you after the first visit).

2) Click the "Manage all of my Subscriptions" link in the toolbar, below the list of topics.

3) In the checkboxes to the right of "/webx/allnetworks/Executive Networks," uncheck Email Messages and Email Digest and click the Set button. This will turn off all email from the site. Topics may still be started and read on the Online Peer Networking website.

NOTE: There is no need to make any changes to the drop down box under “Add a subscription:”