The most powerful way to reach, build relationships with, and engage JP residents on this network is to create a group. By creating a group, you can invite members to join your group and most importantly, participate in dialogue through discussions that you and your group members create about your mission, products, and services. Content is King. Like the internet, if your website is not interesting they will not visit it again. My advise is to tell stories about your products and services and ask members to share their experience, ideas, and vision with you.

Already have a website, blog, or meetup group and don't have the capacity to manage yet another social network presence? Either do we! Simple embed the rss feed from your existing blog or source into your group. Note, you can also take the RSS from your group and embed it on say your facebook group. Think of your group on this network as a referral source.

The following will help you learn how to use the robust functionality of groups:

To create a group simple go the Groups Tab and choose 'Create a group" underneath the tabs.

The next step will be to name it, upload a picture, add description, and choose what features you want.

As you can see below, for this group, I have turned of "allow members to send messages to group." My thought is only you and those who you choose to make administrators of the group, should send messages. Think of messages as your newsletter. I do however allow "discussions." Each time a discussion is added or replied to members get notified unless they have chosen "stop following."

For this group, we have another network so I choose "RSS Reader" so we can show the RSS feed from the other network where the run the project.

Note on the screen capture below we have embed our logo and link to the site because we want people to join us there more than we do here. If they are interested, they will join us.