Here is some basic information about how this Community site works:

The Community site works a lot like Facebook, but we only ask for your name and email although we’d love to know where you are located, anything else you share is up to you. Once on our main page – you will see a slideshow featuring one of our photo albums on the left above a list of upcoming events. We will post news and featured blogposts in the center of the page.

Going across the tabs at the top –

Invite – allows you to invite friends to join the community.
• If you type in your email address and password(we don’t keep or share this information) you will invite everyone you email.
• If you’d like to invite just a few friends you can type in their email addresses individually.
• Or you can import an entire address book from Outlook or another address book application.

My Page - is your personal page.
• You can just type in the box that says “What brings you here?” to post news about yourself.
• You also have a text box where you can put just about anything you want to post including links to things like youtube video.
• There’s a space for photos – just click on “add photos” and you can upload photos from your computer that you can display as thumbnails or a slideshow or organize and display in albums . We’d love to see the buildings and sites around Oregon that YOU love. We are all architectural voyeurs after all.
• And at the bottom is a place where you or your friends can comment. You can change the order of these items by hovering over them with the cursor until the cursor changes into a cross with arrows, at that point, you can just click and drag the item where you want it.

On the right side of your My Page, under your name, you will see:
• Inbox - where you can see messages you’ve received from other members and send messages. • Friends-Invite - another link to the “Invite” page.
• Settings - where you will be able to upload a photo of yourself and change your profile information like your birthdate, gender and location.
Under Birthdate – there are three options: Display my birthday, Display my birthday and age, Don’t display my birthday or age; choose the setting you prefer.

Over on the left side of “My Page” you will see a list:
• Profile – the first page you go to when you click Settings where you can upload your photo and change your profile information.
• Privacy - where you can control who sees your blog posts, photos and information. Just be aware that the administrator can see everything no matter the setting.
• Email - where you will be able to change your email settings and control when you receive email updates from the Community site or you can go to the bottom and turn off all emails.
• My Page - redirects you to other pages to make changes in the appearance of your page.
• Connections - allows you to connect your page posts to Twitter.

Events -is where you can post information on preservation events. Event postings are approved by the administrator. Please keep them to events that have to do with preservation or history.

Blogs - lists all the latest blog posts by members and staff. To the right of the blog posts there are links that sort the posts by most popular, topic and date, so you can find the blog posts that interest you.

Discussions - is where you can chime in on different preservation topics. Tell us what you think because we want to know what is important to you.

Members - Here, you can see who else is a member, click their profiles to learn more about them and “friend” them.

Groups - There are general groups like Old House Geeks that you can join. Some groups are created by our League Members (other preservation groups around the state) as a way for them to communicate with their members and post information and events that they share with us.