Sep
19th
Set up group, event and magazine approval settings
Published by: Tom on Friday 19th September 2008
- If you wish to have control over more of the content of your network, you can choose to approve groups, events or blogs before they appear on your network.
- If you set up moderators on your network, they too will be able to approve or deny these requests.
- To change your approval settings, you can do so by going to your admin centre, which can be accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com.
- Once inside your admin centre, click on the 'Access Settings' section.
- Once inside 'Network Access', scroll to the block titled "Require your approval when..."
- To set your network to require approval for groups and/or events and/or blog posts to the magazine, simply tick the box next to the relevant statement.
- Finally, press 'Save Changes' to save your settings.
- Requests for approval will appear in your sidebar, in the 'Moderation' section:
Sep
16th
Set up access settings for your network
Published by: Tom on Tuesday 16th September 2008
- As the network owner, you can set various levels of security for a member to sign-up.
- You can approve members, so that before someone can access the site, you must approve their sign-up request. This is useful when you want to individually decide who can be a member of your network.
- You can also set up a password for people to use to join your network. This is useful for when you wish to have a slight degree of exclusivity, but also want users to be able to sign-up and access the site right away - as long as the know the password!
- To change your access settings, you can do so by going to your admin centre, which can be accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com.
- Once inside your admin centre, click on the 'Access Settings' section.
- The first option when you enter the 'Access Settings' section, is to set up an 'Access Code'. You can create a code of your choice, which users must enter on the sign up form in order to access your network, as seen here:
- Click on the tickbox next to "Access code ".
- Type your access code in to the box, and then either click 'Save Changes', or you can also decide if you'd like to make new members subject to approval by you or a moderator.
- This means that when a user signs up to your network, before being able to access the network, you or a moderator will have to approve (or deny) their request from the moderation section of your sidebar.
- Once you've chosen to add an access code, to require approval, or both options, you must press the 'Save Changes' button to save your settings.
- If you have set your network to 'Require Approval' for new members, then you will find their requests in your sidebar (as will any moderators you have elected on your site) as seen here:
Sep
8th
Add and manage widgets on your homepage
Published by: Tom on Monday 8th September 2008
- A widget is a block of code, which you can place on your network homepage, and which displays ‘live’ content – advertisements, links, images, news, any a plethora of other media or information.
- Your SocialGO network comes pre-set with some widgets, such as 'Magazine Latest' or 'Latest Forum Posts'
- To control your SocialGO widgets, go to the 'Homepage Widgets' section of your admin centre, accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com.
- Once inside the 'Homepage Widgets' section, you'll see two columns, looking like this:
- In the left hand column you have your live widgets, i.e. those that can be seen on your homepage.
- In the right hand column, you have inactive widgets, i.e. ones that cannot be seen on your network.
- To make a widget appear on the homepage, simply drag it from the right hand column to the left hand column.
- You'll notice that the widgets often have an 'Edit Widget Options' link in their box.
- By clicking on this button, you can change the name of the widget, or in some cases, the amount of information that the widget displays.
- Don't forget to press 'Change' to save the changes you make to your widget.
- Once you are happy with the way you have edited and rearranged your widgets, you must press 'Submit' to save your settings
- SocialGO also offers the great feature of being able to add custom widgets to your network homepage.
- Sites like www.widgetbox.com offer hundreds of different widgets, and all you need to add these to your network is the JavaScript embed code offered by the widget provider, which will look something like this:
- To make one of these custom widgets appear on your network, drag the 'Custom HTML' widget block from the right hand column to the left hand column.
- Press 'Submit' as soon as you have dragged the 'Custom HTML' box to the left colum.
- Now that the Custom HTML block is safely saved there, you can enter your custom widet code.
- To do this, press 'Edit Widget Options' in the 'Custom HTML' block, and enter your embed code in to the box.
- After you have added your custom widget embed code, press 'Change', and then 'Submit' on the page displaying all your widgets in order to save your settings.
Sep
2nd
Create and Manage Custom Profile Questions
Published by: Tom on Tuesday 2nd September 2008
- As a network owner, you can create custom questions for your members to answer.
- These questions are useful for gathering more information about users, such as for specific details relevant to your network, and also for making users' profiles more interesting and informative
- Answers can be required, or optional.
- You can choose whether you wish users' answers to be displayed to everyone on your network, or just moderators and you, the owner.
- Answers can be written as one option from a list, as a single line answer, or as a multi line answer, depending on which option you choose.
- To add a custom question to your network, go to your admin centre, which can be accessed via the link in your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com
- Click 'Add Another Question'
- First, enter your question.
- Then choose what type of answer you would like the user to be able to give.
- The 3 different answer fields will appear like this to users:
- Once you've selected which kind of answer you'd like your users to give, you can choose the settings for the answer.
- If you'd like only moderators and owners to be able to see the answer, click 'Private Answer'.
- If you'd like to make answering the question compulsory when members sign-up, select 'Require an answer'.
- Once you've written your question, and confirmed the settings for it, click the 'Update Questions' button.
- Once you've set your questions, they will be seen in the 'Sign-Up' form, and also in the 'Edit Profile' section of 'Manage Account' in your sidebar.
- The answers to your custom questions will be visible on every member's profile, like this:
- Should you wish to disable a custom question, so that it is not displayed, but is not deleted, then you can do so by entering the 'Profile Questions' section of your admin centre, and ticking the 'Disable' button next to the relevant question.
- If you'd like to completely delete a question, simply tick the 'Delete' box.
- You must click 'Update questions' for your changes to be saved
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