As we adjust to our new Vivit Worldwide virtual community, we
experience some growing pains. This is natural, and as IT professionals, we all
expect these things. The good news is that the technology itself is
working significantly better than we were experiencing on the old site. Our
challenges seem to come in two distinct areas:
1.
Functional requirements for Chapter Leaders
2.
Adapting to a more open & "community” style site
To address the first area, we will look to engage the Chapter
Leaders in some functional requirements gathering to continue to refine
process of the site; like any technology or tool, there’s always more honing to
be done.
With respect to the second area, the way we feel best to address
the challenge is awareness. Vivit-Worldwide.org is effectively a social
media site now; it used to be a fairly static information
repository. The new site gives us the best of both worlds, but that comes
with a certain amount of individual responsibility for your privacy.
So how should you manage your privacy on the new Vivit Worldwide
online community?
The single most important thing to know is how to manage your
privacy settings for your Vivit profile. Whenever you are logged into the
Vivit site, you should find (now on the right hand panel) the "My Profile”
menu.
You’ll want to "Manage Profile” which will then give you the
option to "Edit Bio”, including choosing your privacy settings.
As you enter each field, you will have the option to make a
piece of information either publicly visible or not. The default value is
for it to be publicly visible so it’s important to update your profile, and
review these settings. Look for the icon to the left of the field that
looks like this:
Click that icon, and you get a choice of public or private
status for that information. Some fields are mandatory to ensure that you
are an actual & active member, and not a bot, etc. Such an example is your
email address. Vivit administration requires we have you enter this, but then set
it to private so the icon to the left looks like this:
Now general members can view your public profile, but can’t see
your email address.
If you have questions about the Vivit Website & privacy, I
encourage you to post a message on the Vivit Services discussion group
at: https://vivitworldwide.site-ym.com/forums/topics.asp?forum=111048&
