This section of the web site includes utilities to create and manage your personal profile, send and receive communications between you and other members, change your password, and manage your site bookmarks.

The My Stuff section provides an extensive set of tools which, when opened, generates a new set of options appearing in the vertical menu on the left of the page as summarized in the following list:

• Home: A brief introductory biography about you.
• Profile:  Information about you.
  • View:  Shows the fields in your profile that you have completed.  Empty fields are not shown.  BASE information is information that was submitted during the registration process.  Additional sections include About Me and Contact Me.
  • Edit:  Shows all fields that you can change.  There are separate tabs for the Base, Contact Me and About Me information.  Many of these fields enable you to determine who can see the information by clicking on the [Change] button.
  • Change profile picture – upload or take a photo to display on the site.
  • Change cover image – upload a banner image to go behind your photo.
• Settings
  • General:  Change you email address and password.
  • Email:  Customize the events that trigger dispatching an email to you.
  • Compliments:  Set who can see your compliments page.
  • Profile Visibility:  A quick way to set visibility for each of your profile fields.
• Activity:  This summarizes your actions and interactions on the site.
  • Personal:  The actions you have taken such as updating your profile, publishing to the blog, etc.
  • Mentions:  You can mention a member by embedding their username preceded by the @ symbol anywhere in your text, @geglynn for example.  Usernames can be found by visiting the membership directory and following the link to the profile which displays the username next to the picture.  This provides a mechanism for citing another members comments, posts, etc., in your own writing.  If someone has mentioned you in their writing you will see a reference to it listed in the Mentions section.
  • Following:  Activity of the members you have chosen to follow.  You can also comment on and favorite their posts.
  • Favorites:  Lists changes that have happened to items on which you clicked the favorite button.
  • Friends:  Lists the activity of members who are your friends.
  • Groups:  Lists the activity which has occurred in groups in which you are a member.
• Downloads:  Files you have attached to articles and posts to the web site.  Listed under tabs for Read and Unread.
• Location: View and update your geographical location so other members can find you.
• Notifications:  Alerts you have received about mentions, messages, friend requests, etc.
• Messages:  Messages received, sent, flagged with a star, and a form to compose a new message for a community member.
• Friends:  Lists of members with whom you are friends and of pending requests. Friends can be given selective access to information about you.
• Following:  The community members you have chosen to follow you and requests you have received.
• Followers:  The community members who have chosen to follow you.
• Groups:
  • Memberships:  The groups in which you are a member.
  • Invitations:  Pending invitations to you to join a group, originating from a member of the group.
• Compliments:  Messages of compliment you have received from other members.
• Forums:
  • Topics started:  A list of the topics you have started.
  • Replies created:  Replies you have posted to topics.
  • Favorites:  Topics you have favorited.
  • Subscriptions:  Forums and topics for which you want to receive email digests about new posts.
• Send invites:  Spread the word about the HELLO Community by using this form to invite colleagues to join.  Customize the canned subject and text, and select groups in which you think your invitees may have an interest.
• Docs:  Collaborative group documents you have either started or are participated in authoring.