NEW User ID for SWE Communities & Password
Hey there, H’ers! For those of you who are experiencing issues with SWE communities since the upgrade to the Member Services Center, see below:
From: Pamela Androff, pamela.androff@swe.org
Hello SWE contacts!
I’m sending this e-mail because I have been sent a lot of e-mails about not being able to access SWE communities and if I know why it’s broken? 
This Monday the new SWE Member Services center launched. As you know, in the past you have used your SWE login to access the member database. When SWE Communities launched, we used the same SWE login to access SWE communities. Then, because our SWE login also became our SWE Communities display name, most of us changed our SWE login to represent our names in some fashion so we would be able to recognize one another in SWE communities.
With the launching of the new Member Services center, every SWE member has been assigned a new SWE login. The format is typically firstname.lastname#### (May be last 4 digits of your membership ID #) and your password remains the same. Thus far I have not been able to find a way to adjust or change your display name to remove the numbers or change the format. You should have recieved a letter in the mail with your new log in. (This came in the letter with either member solicitation or voting). This new username replaces your old SWE login. If you have been having trouble accessing either the Member Services center OR the SWE Communities, you are likely using the incorrect username for yourself. Your old username has been overridden and does not exist any longer.
If you do not know your new login, you can access it by going to the following page and clicking on the link following “Forget username/password?”
http://ams.swe.org/swessa/ssaauthmenu.show_top_menu
I think SWE HQ did not make a big deal out of this username switch because there is only a very small percentage of members who actually use SWE communities actively, and we are that small percentage!! Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with!
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Pam
