EP Community doesn't just give you information about the park and surrounding area, by becoming a member it also lets you get in touch with other people who work at the park. In addition you can receive news feeds from your favourite papers or the BBC, join or start up interest groups, check out the local weather and traffic conditions, buy goods and services at special discounted rates or receive the occasional special offer, and much more.
Click the following links for find out about specific subjects, or just scroll down for full instructions of how to use EP Community.
Register Yourself
Your personalised homepage
Update your profile
Contacts
Managing Contacts
Messages
Groups
Joining a group
Adding a new group
Using the groups
Posting to groups
Replying to posts
Concierge Service
As long as you work in the park you can use EP Community's member services. To ensure that you are a member of the park you are required to register.
To register : Fill in your details in the register section of the website. Your company email address is used to ensure that you work at the park.
Your email address will never be shown to anyone on the site, it is only used to verify your identity and if you need to be contacted by site admin.
Once you have registered, an email with your chosen username and password will be sent to your company email address.
You're done! You can now log in to the site with your new username and password whenever you visit EP Community to see your personalised homepage by clicking the login link on the left bar navigation or the top bar navigation.
When you log in, you'll see new sections on the homepage which are specific to registered members.
Personalised Welcome message. If your details are wrong, you can email admin to correct them, you can also update your profile. (more info)
Contacts. Search for people by name here, use advanced search to search by company. (more info)
Messages. Here you can see how many new messages you have from your contacts and groups. (more info)
Groups. Any groups you join show here, you have quick access to your posts and can join and add more groups. (more info)
National News. This is your national news feed as selected in your profile. (more info)
Local News. This is your local news feed as selected in your profile. (more info)
Concierge Service. Order services such as food and dry-cleaning. (more info)
Update your profile
If you want to join any groups, you will need to update your profile to specifiy your interests as all groups are shown based on your interests.
In your profile you can also change which news feeds you see on your personalised homepage.
Contacts
Search for people you know who work in the park.
Your results show the person's name and which company they work for in brackets.
Send a message to contact
Add person to contacts list
To see all of your contacts, click the "All Contacts" link.
From here you can manage you contacts or send a personal message to any of your contacts.
Managing Contacts
Here you can add a new folder by typing any name you like into the "New Folder" box and pressing the "OK" button.
Then you can sort your contacts into folders using the drop down boxes, or you can delete a contact by pressing the 
button.
Messages
If you click this icon, you can send a message to a person in your contacts list.
When you open the inbox, you can read, reply to, search and sort the messages sent to you.
Unread messages are highlighted in light grey, once the message has been read the highlight dissapears to indicate that.
To sort the messages by subject, sender or date recieved simply click on the relevant headings.
To search by message title or sender just use the search box above the messages.
To read a message, click on the subject title, from there you can also reply to the message by clicking the "
Reply" Link.
Sent messages lets you review messages you have sent in the past, and notifications shows you information about your groups.(see below)
Groups
When you first register you won't be part of any groups.
Click on "More Groups" to find groups suited to your interests.
You will only see groups relevant to your interests.
Joining a group:
If you see a group you want to join click on this icon. This informs the person who runs the group (the group admin) that you would like to join. The icon will change to 
to show that you have requested to join the group.
Your request to join this group has been accepted
Your request to join this group has been declined
Click on this to delete unwanted notifications
If your request is declined, don't worry, you can request to join a group as many times as you like.
Adding a new group:
If there are no groups that interest you. You can add one using the "Add your own group" link.
NB: If you add a group, you will be the group admin and will be responsible for running that group.
Click on this to accept a user's request to join your group
Click on this to decline a user's request to join your group
Using the groups:
Now you're a member of a group, you can start using it to make and reply to posts.
To make a new post, click this icon or the "New post" link
If this icon is beside a person's name, it shows they are the group admin, i.e. the person that started the group.
This icon shows the subject of the post is "live", meaning the discussion is still open. If the discussion is closed, the status will change to 
. This indicates whether or not you can still respond to posts.
Posting to groups:
To make a new post, click this icon or the "New post" link
This icon shows the discussion is still open, clicking it will change the icon to . This closes the discussion., which means no one can post any more replies about your subject. If you want to open it again, click on the and it will change back.
If you click on your posts, you can also edit them.
Replying to posts:
The "Private Message" link sends a private message that only the original poster can see.
The "Reply to post" link replies to the post, for everyone else in the group to see.
The "Report inappropriate content" lets you send a message to the group admin. This helps the admin to look after their group and makes sure that anything rude or offensive is dealt with.
Concierge Service
The concierge service allows different companies that serve the park to add menus and order forms to make organising things much easier.
The concierge service is a basic order form. The above example is for a menu. You would use the drop down to select the quantity of each item you require.
At the end of the process it is required to fill in an form to specify times, dates and other details for your order.