Congratulations to Patrick Sexton on winning the December HisReach iPod Giveaway. Also, runners up Logan Cross and Madi Milam won free HisReach t-shirts. Thank you all for your help in making HisReach grow.
Make sure to check out the 25 new profile backgrounds on HisReach from c28/Not Of This World. We are constantly trying to add more, so make sure to check it out regularly! Enjoy!
So you must all know about the HisReach iPod Giveaway by now. Well…we have some winners folks! Trust me…it was intense.
There was a 2 way tie for first between Jason Kleist and Rachel Cross and a solid 3rd place held by Nate Caler.
How to break this tie…you might ask yourself. Well there is only one possible way…that’s right…an old fashion RPS face-off. Both Rachel and Jason submitted their best challenges (through email) and there was much blood and sweat shed in the battle.
As you can see…no battle is easily won, but in the 8th round…Rachel arose victorious.
Thanks to everyone that participated in our Membership Drive. The good news…it’s not too late. November 1st is upon us and there will be a new winner announced at the end of the month. Same rules, same prizes. Good luck!
You’ve asked for it and they are finally here! You can now add a background to your HisReach profile. Check it out on your Edit Background page. You can find this page at:
Edit Profile > Background
From here you can check a category and see all the images in that category or try searching by words. We are getting more options for backgrounds very soon, but you can help! Submit your own…you will find directions on how to contribute by checking out the lower right corner of the ‘Edit Background’ page.
Hope you all enjoy this fun new addition. More coming soon!
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!
Hey HisReach!
If you haven’t heard yet, we are giving away a FREE Special HisReach iPod shuffle for the member that helps us the most in our membership drive. We are also going to be giving away two free tshirts (one to each runner up). Check out the full details here.
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!
Hey HisReach,
We just want to keep you updated on what is going on in the HisReach world. There are tons of new people, tons of new church additions, and tons of new suggestions for HisReach.
We TOTALLY appreciate your feedback and we are hearing everything you say. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of time to respond to everything…but no worries, you are being heard. Keep the suggestions coming…together we will make HisReach an amazing place to be!
Just a little look into the future…HisReach is on the move! We are going into a time of great growth for HisReach and that means a lot of fun new features for all of you. Just to name a few:
1) Brand new photo system for your profile - Unlimited pictures, multiple albums, tagging, etc. - Get excited because this is going to be really cool!
2) More changes to how HisReach looks and functions - We are continuing to change HisReach to look great and function even better.
3) Music Profiles - Yes…some of you have been asking for almost a year and its nearly time. Before the summer is over…there will be music on your profiles…it’s going to be awesome…I promise :)
So…with all that on the way…we need one thing from you….especially all the new members out there. We need you to invite your friends to check out HisReach. If you love HisReach, if you think HisReach is alright, or even if you just see the potential of HisReach…help us get there! We need you to invite friends because it makes HisReach more fun, more active, and helps us to keep developing new stuff. There are 2 easy ways to invite your friends:
1) On your home page, there is a section called ‘Invite’. Simply type in your friends email addresses and a little message and send away.
2) If you prefer the easier route, you can import your email addresses from your email account into HisReach and then you don’t have to type at all. It’s REALLY easy and only takes a minute to actually do. You can find the address importer in the ‘Invite’ section on your home page at the link called ‘Find Your Friends on HisReach’ or at http://www.hisreach.com/general/invite_address_book.php. Also, if your friends are already on HisReach and you don’t know it…this tool will let you request their friendship immediately. Pretty cool!
So, thanks for helping us make a great site. Thanks for checking out what we are doing. Stay tuned here on the HisReach blog for more about a free iPod giveaway very soon!
UPDATED 8/8/07: If you were having any issues with the Connection Tool or if it was saying your file was not in valid CSV format, try again as we did make a few fixes.
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Wow! What a great weekend we had with all of you! It was so great to be out in Monterey, CA for the weekend to meet you. All-in-all we gave out 6000 orange wristbands, 1120 water bottles, 23 t-shirts, and 3 orange iPod shuffles! We hope that you got something to remember HisReach by while you were at SWC.
For those of you that have been members of HisReach for some time…you will be excited to know that there are now 950 new HisReach members! Make sure to introduce yourself and let’s make this online community the best on the Internet. Check out the Connection Tool to find people you may know. Just remember that it’s always better to have friends on HisReach…so don’t hesitate to request friendships with people. If you need some people to be your first friends, below are all the guys that were at the HisReach booth this weekend (we would love to be your friends):
Garrett (http://www.hisreach.com/garrett)
Doug (http://www.hisreach.com/dstjohn)
Cameron (http://www.hisreach.com/cameronj)
Justin (http://www.hisreach.com/justinbrier)
Jason (http://www.hisreach.com/jasonkleist)
Wes (http://www.hisreach.com/wesjang)
David (http://www.hisreach.com/davidjclarkeiv)
Thanks to everyone that signed up! We are glad you are a part of the HisReach family now and look forward to meeting you. Check out the pictures of SWC 2007!
Very lastly…check out the HisReach group for all members that attended SWC 2007. Make sure to join so that we can all stay connected.
You must have noticed by now that HisReach has a new look! We really wanted to move in the direction of taking our design to the next level, so this is where we started. A simple new header and a little less orange throughout the site. We are still working to update all the pages, but we are really excited about our new look. Let us know what you think!
Also, we have a new navigation system! We noticed that we had a lot of ways to get to the same page throughout the site. After quite a bit of analysis of the website, we came up with our new bar as you see it now. You should find everything you used to see on the new bar. If you don’t immediately see it, check out what is in the dropdown menus. We have some big plans for the next few months for HisReach and our navigation bar was getting smaller and smaller. You will find the most used pages on the top level and lesser used in the dropdowns. We hope you like the new navigation…we are working to make HisReach great!
Spirit West Coast starts today in Monterey, CA and runs through Saturday night. If you didn’t know yet, HisReach has a booth! We are located in the middle of the vendor island area. Make sure you come by the booth to say Hi. We are giving away free wristbands, free water bottles, and a raffle ticket to win one of THREE FREE IPODS. We would love to meet you, so grab some friends and stop by to meet us.
Lastly, along with our new look on the website…we have a new t-shirt available. Much thanks to Jason Kleist from Rambler Media for all of his hard work putting together the new shirt. You can check it out and order your own in the HisReach Store!
Thanks to everyone for all your support as we continue to grow HisReach. We appreciate all of your kind words and support.