“With the introduction of AOSconnect, the AOS has harnessed the power of today's social media for better collaboration and mentoring for all our members.” --Thomas N. Chapman, AOS Executive Director, CAE what we do and be able to share ideas and problem solve together. Here are just a few of the many benefits: Collaborate and network via group discussions and resources. Contact and connect with other members for social or professional reasons. Receive relevant news and information with content alerts and news feeds that you choose to receive. View the entire AOS Course Calendar of Events and register for courses directly through the AOS connect “Events” calendar. Download resources from other members and instructors, as well as share resources with the AOS membership. Provide feedback to NFi Studios so we can continue to make AOS connect everything you want and need it to be. If you choose, connect your AOS connect profile to your Facebook profile combining your professional and social networking platforms. Take our surveys that will assist us in growing with you as an organization. This initiative has tremendous potential for other useful applications. We will continue to expand and refine it through listening to users who share their wish lists with us. This is YOUR community... and the AOS and NFi Studios teams are dedicated to evolving this community to ensure it is a valuable benefit of your membership. This is why your feedback is so impor-tant! We want to hear about your needs, suggestions and ideas and we’ll respond as quickly as possible to enhance the community platform. We thrive on feed-back and enhancement suggestions from our members. 46 March/April 2011 JAOS What Do I Need to Do to Get Started? Get started and tell us what you think! The first time you log in, using your e-mail address for both your username and password, you’ll be able to setup your profile photo, specify your content interests, and then answer a few “Member Matching” ques-tions. These questions are designed to match you with other AOS members who share similar interests and practice techniques. From there, you can choose how and when you receive e-mail notifications as well as what other members can see. Click on “Edit my settings” next to your profile photo and select the privacy and notifica-tions tabs (Fig.1). Fig. 1 Then click “groups” to see what people are talking about, and click the icon to join (Fig. 2)! If you cannot join a specific group, it may have privacy restrictions or it may require you to “Request to join group”.
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