HisReach.com

We have heard this question quite a few times over the last few days, so why not answer it for everyone?
There are several ways that you can meet friends or find your existing friends on Hisreach. Check it out:

EMAIL ADDRESS FRIEND FINDER
Use this tool to find your friends by email address or to send out invitations to them to check out HisReach. Any friends that use your invitation to sign up for HisReach will count towards the free ipod giveaway!

FIND MEMBERS IN YOUR AREA
Use this tool to find people that you might be familiar with in your area. There are several criteria that HisReach uses to try to connect you with people you might know.

SEARCH TOOL
Search for your friends or find your church and then go through the church members for people you might know.

You can find all of these tools in the ‘Invite’ section on your home page below the ‘Invite Now’ button.

STILL NOT FEELING CONNECTED?
Invite your friends to join HisReach. A personal recommendation is invaluable and we can’t thank you enough for them! Unfortunately, sometimes it takes more than just sending out an invitation through email. You may have to bring up HisReach at school, work, church, etc. Tell your friends what you like about HisReach and how you prefer it over other social networking alternatives. This is sure to interest them into at least checking it out. The fact of the matter is someone has to be the first to support a cool new “thing” and we hope that it can be you! Show your support and help HisReach to grow! We can’t possibly do it without you!

UPDATE: If you are having an issue with HisReach looking really bland or drastically different than what it used to look like, you will need to refresh the page. Your browser is caching some old pages and so it will look very odd. To refresh, you must either press the ‘Shift’ button on your keyboard and then click the refresh button on your browser OR clear your browsers cache in the settings. Hope this helps!

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If you haven’t noticed by now, HisReach has new style! In a continuing effort to update our look at HisReach, we have restyled EVERY page in your community. It’s not just about the style, however, we also have added a lot of new features to the navigation of HisReach. Now things are easier to find and easier to use.

Top Buddies - Now you can show off your best buds to everyone on HisReach. Make sure to set them up so they will show in your profile. You can do so at http://www.hisreach.com/user/edit_buddies.php. Also, use this page to easily access all of your top buddies profiles…just one click away!

NEW RETRO HISREACH TEE - Don’t miss this! There is an awesome new HisReach tshirt in the HisReach Store at http://store.hisreach.com. They are totally hip and now in ladies styles as well as mens! You’re going to like them for sure! Show your HisReach love!

New Search Feature - You may have noticed there were some issues with searching from the navigation bar. Well worry no longer! The bar is now fixed and you can search for anyone on HisReach by first or last name in only one step. Need to search for churches or groups? Click ‘Search’ in the navigation bar and you are there!

Help Promote HisReach - Visit http://promote.hisreach.com. We have a new button for you to place on your blog, website, or MySpace. We need your help getting the word out about HisReach…we can’t do it without you! Definitely go check it out!

If you have been having any issues logging out of your HisReach account, you must remove the cookies for hisreach. Below are some instructions on how to do that for several common browsers:

Internet Explorer:
* Go to the ‘Tools’ Menu
* Go to ‘Internet Options’
* Click ‘Delete Cookies…’ under the ‘General’ tab
* Click ‘OK’ to confirm deleting cookies
* NOTE: This will clear all of your cookies

Firefox (Advanced):
* Go to the ‘Tools’ Menu
* Go to ‘Options…’
* Click ‘Show Cookies…’ under the ‘Privacy’ tab
* Type ‘hisreach’ into the Search box
* Select a line and click ‘Remove Cookie’
* Continue until all the lines are gone

Firefox (Beginner):
* Go to the ‘Tools’ Menu
* Click ‘Clear Private Data’
* Make sure ‘Cookies’ is check
* Click ‘OK’ to proceed
* NOTE: This will clear all of your cookies

Sorry for the inconvenience!

UPDATE: You may change your privacy settings by clicking on ‘edit settings’ on your main page or by clicking this link.

You can also set your username by going here.

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Things are really rolling at HisReach. We are working to design cool changes to make your experience more fun. Part of that is making HisReach more accessible to everyone. Don’t freak out…we haven’t created the HisReach “news feed”.

What we have done though is create usernames! “So what?” you might be saying. Well, usernames allow you to easily access your personal profile from anywhere on the web. All you have to do is log into your HisReach account, click the link that says “Set My Username Now”, pick a username between 5 and 16 characters, and you are done. Now you can access your personal profile from anywhere on the web by visiting http://www.hisreach.com/yourusername. For example, my username is ‘garrett’…I know…shocking, huh? So I can easily visit my profile by going to http://www.hisreach.com/garrett. Check it out…and don’t hesitate to add me as your friend…I like meeting new people!

“Woah Woah Woah, I didn’t sign up to have my profile visible to the entire world”, you might be saying. Trust us, we understand. That’s why we have now added privacy levels for your profile. There are three levels LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH. By default your account is set to HIGH privacy and will operate just as it always has since we created HisReach. None of your information will be visible to anyone that is not your friends. You can still access your personal profile like we described above, but users will have to be logged in and already be your friend before they can see your profile. The next level is MEDIUM privacy. This allows your “limited” profile to be visible to any member of HisReach only. People must have a HisReach account in order to see your profile. When they are viewing your profile they will see the “limited version”, meaning they will not see your prayer requests, your contact information, or your profile statistics…at least until they become your friend. The last level is LOW privacy. This allows anyone on the internet to see your “limited” profile without needing a HisReach account. Again, your “limited” profile does not share your prayer requests, your contact information, or your profile statistics.

We implemented the privacy in this way to encourage you to share your HisReach profile with your friends and make it as easy as possible to show someone. Don’t worry Moms and Dads, just make sure that your child’s profile is set to HIGH security and everything will remain totally confidential. We are always thinking of your kids safety and security first.

Lastly is our call for help…we need you, our members, to help keep HisReach alive. Part of staying alive is keeping HisReach active and exciting. Help us by inviting your friends to join HisReach with our invite feature. You are going to make HisReach great and we need your help. Don’t forget to send a friend an encouraging message or add to the discussion topic. We hope you love HisReach as much as we love serving you!

More great features on the way soon!

There seems to be some confusion on pictures for the photo album so I wanted to clear it up for everyone. Pictures are totally free to post and you can have up to 10 on your profile. You will start out when you sign up with only your main profile picture. We want people to see who you are, so post that picture ASAP.

To get your photo album pictures, all you have to do is send out your invites. Every person that you invite that signs up for a HisReach account gets you one more picture in your album. We have seen that some of you aren’t using your photo album pictures, so go check it out now. If you are having any issues at all, please let us know in the suggestion box. The more details, the better. We are working out a few kinks with the album, so your help will only make it better faster.

If you need help with any other parts of the site, from inviting friends, to approving friendships, to writing mails, check out the help page for all the info you’ll need. Keep the invites going out, HisReach is growing in leaps and bounds and we think you are really going to love what we have coming…