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Familiarize yourself with our ProfNet 3.0 tutorial. We’ve designed it to help you get up to speed on ProfNet’s new features and navigation as quickly as possible. |
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Look for our ‘Welcome to ProfNet’ letter in your email inbox. This key system message will give you your new login ID and password. Your existing login ID and password will not work in ProfNet 3.0. |
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Click the link in your e-mail invitation and log in with your new login ID and password. The system will prompt you to immediately change your password to one that’s easy to remember. You’ll find our new site at the same URL as our old one: http://profnet.prnewswire.com |
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Read our Terms and Conditions and click ‘Agree.’ As a virtual community, we all have a stake in the professionalism of our colleagues. In ProfNet 3.0, we enable reporters to block the delivery of queries to members who violate our conditions of membership, so please always play by the rules. |
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Check your profile. We’ve done our best to accurately transfer all data from our old ProfNet system to our new one, but please take a minute to review and update your profile by clicking My Profile in the top navigation bar. |
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Check your delivery preferences. Go to My Feeds and you’ll see we offer new options for filtering queries. Most importantly, do you want to receive queries from non-journalist professionals like authors, publishers, meeting planners and bloggers? Do you want to receive queries as frequently as every half-hour? [See relevant tutorial: Setting Your Delivery Preferences.] |
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Check your expert profiles. Please check all of your profiles to make sure they transferred cleanly into the new system. To view and edit expert profiles, go to My Organization and click My Experts. If any of your experts’ photos failed to transfer, we hope you’ll repost them. Please set pixels to 100 by 100. Images will upload slowly if more than 2 MB. [See relevant tutorial: Create an Expert Profile.] |
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Check your delivery options for ProfNet Roundup advisories. Roundups are inventories of experts on hot topics that we transmit to more than 4000 US news organizations via PR Newswire’s national newsline and post on beat pages in PR Newswire’s site for journalists. You’ll want to opt out of our e-mail advisories in Roundup subjects in which you have no experts to offer reporters. [See relevant tutorial: Setting Your Delivery Preferences.] |
