Title: Introduce yourself to the project
Course: US Election 2012 - Leuphana Copy > Section: Getting started

Compose your personal profile.

In the settings block, you find a link to your personal profile. Edit your profile page so that we can learn more about you. Your classmates and teacher should be able to identify you:

- your (class and) school
- your interest in the project
- something special about you
- a picture (of you or something else) so that your classmates can easily recognize your forum posts etc.

Your profile can be accessed by all enrolled project participants because your are enrolled in the meta course 'Meeting Point'. But it can't be accessed by people who don't have access to the platform or/and are not enrolled in one of your courses. So make it nice and interesting, but also "safe" (not too detailed personal information).

Near the bottom of the page you find an area called "Interests". Here you can add tags. It is useful to add at least the state you work on as a tag and the field(s) you feel to be an expert in. Students from other schools, even in different cities, will be able to find you in case you have the same tagged interests − and vice versa.

You can add project related information, which you think is important for your work, when you click on the button "Customize this page" in the upper right corner of the profile page. Then you can add an external RSS-Feed, a Twitter stream, or even some relevant pictures and links in an HTML block.