Welcome to the new member portal! Here are a few actions to take to maximize your user experience. After logging in, we recommend you update your profile and account settings.
Update Your Profile
In the member portal, from the top right icon, click “Profile” to edit your contact information, title, and organization. Don’t forget to add your picture to the icon!
On this page, choose whether you want to be listed in our member directory. Only other Alliance members can view the member directory.
Notification Settings
Once you have updated your profile, select “General Settings” from the top-right icon. Under profile visibility, you can select the personal information you want other members to see in the directory.
Then you can select your notifications. This setting will determine if other members can contact you from the directory or “groups” (more on groups below). Be sure to save your preferences for this page when you are done by clicking the “Save” button at the bottom or top right of the page.
Network
Build your community! There are two ways to network in our new system:
- Members – Select the main tab for members
- Here you can search by organization or name to connect with another member directly. You can follow their posts or message them. If you send a message and they have an email listed, they will receive an email and a notification in the portal.
- Members are required to follow community rules.
- Groups – Select the main tab for groups.
- Here you can view “all groups” and those you have joined that display as “my groups”. Group members are required to follow community rules.
- Once you click on a particular group, on the right-hand side, you can view:
- A description of the group under “group details”
- The group members
- Files or documents along with records
- From the middle, you can join the group and select how often you want to be notified about posts and other activity within the group.
- On the left, you can participate in the community by:
- Liking, Sharing, or Commenting! Give your feedback to support your fellow practitioners.
- Posting! Ask questions or share information on a topic relevant to the group.
- Polls – have a question that you want group members to weigh in on? This is a great option when you want to get quick feedback.
Example: Under Public Agency group, a poll could be: Do your staff serve as emergency responders for your agency? Yes or No response.
- Questions – for more detailed questions or to learn about specific examples, you can share a question here. This allows various responses.
Example: Has anyone built a trail along a powerline corridor?
Events
City Parks Alliance offers five types of events: Webinars, Peer Conversations, Workshops, Park Study Tours, and Greater & Greener Conference.
- Upcoming Events will direct you to our website, which displays all of our events, including past events.
- Member-Only Events – Webinars and Peer Conversations are included in Alliance membership. Webinars are eligible for CEUs at no additional cost.
- Upcoming will display events that are exclusive to Alliance members
- Attending will display events that you are signed up for.
- Following will display events you have signed up to follow.
- Attended will display events that you have attended.
- Past will display all past member exclusive events. From here, you can view the recordings once you click on them.
- Open to All Events will display events that are available to the public and will have the same tabs as above for public attendees.
Resources
From the homepage when logged in, click on the “City Park Resource Library” under Quicklinks. Filter by topic or type of resource or use the search.
Don’t forget to explore the City Park Funding Hub too!
Jobs
Alliance members can post jobs to our Job Bank at no additional cost. From the homepage when you are logged in, click on the “Jobs” from the Quicklinks. From the top left, you can “add a job”. Submissions are reviewed and posted within 24 business hours. Members can view posted jobs from this link or from the website under resources.
Currently, non members cannot submit jobs but this option will be added in the future for a fee.
Non members can view posted jobs from the website.
