Getting Started with Thrive

2. Introduce Yourself in the Open Forum

Connect with your fellow WTS members across North America by introducing yourself to the Community! Share where you're from, your Base Chapter, and what brought you to WTS. The Member Forum provides a space for members to discuss relevant topics in transportation, WTS membership, and best practices for successful chapter management.

3. Manage Your Email Notifications

There are two areas on Thrive  where you can manage what emails hit your inbox and when! Visit your Email Preferences located under "My Account" on your profile to turn on or off the type of emails you wish to receive such as System Emails, Community Emails and Participation Emails. Each section has a full description so you know exactly what each email includes.

Then head to your Community Notifications page also located under My Account on your profile page to adjust how you want to be notified about new discussions and content that have been posted to the Thrive Open Forum. You can choose between Personalized Digest, Personalized Digest + Real Time Discussion Emails or No Email. 

If you are a member of other communities/groups, you will find each community/group name listed under Notification Settings on the same page. For each one, you can decide if you want to receive Real Time Emails, a Daily Digest or No Email.

Need fewer emails? If you are a member of multiple communities/groups, you can use the checkboxes to select if you would like to receive a Consolidated Daily Digest or a Consolidated Weekly Digest that shows all of your group activity in a single digest email.

You can even adjust which day of the week you would like to receive your Consolidated Weekly Digest from this page.

Pro-tip: For groups that you are very active in, selecting a Discussion Email frequency of "Real Time" or "Daily Digest" (not Consolidated Daily Digest) have a different look and feel to them. One of the perks of receiving a Real Time or Daily Digest email for your community/group is you have the ability to respond to discussions directly from your email inbox! 

4. Manage Your Privacy Settings

We know that privacy is important, especially when interacting online. That's why on your WTS Thrive Profile, you can choose which information you'd like to share with other community members.

For each item that appears on your profile, you can select if you would like that information to be visible to your forum contacts (contacts must be requested & approved), forum members only, publicly visible or only visible to you. 

5. Customize Your Discussion Signature - Similar to your signature that appears at the bottom of emails you send, discussion signatures are used on WTS Thrive at the bottom of any discussions or comments that you create. On your profile page under My Account, you'll find your Discussion Signature. By default, we display your First Name, Last Name, Job Title, Company Name, City, State and Phone Number. You can update what variable you'd like to appear as your signature.
Note:  First you need to click on the pencil icon below Contact Details on your Profile page to add your contact details (Job Title, Company Name, etc.)

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