Your TOP TIPS for users of this site

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Permalink Reply by Martin Boroson on January 24, 2009 at 4:06pm

COMMENTS v. MESSAGES

Messages are like emails ... just seen by the person you've sent them to, rather than the whole community. The recpient will find them in his or her inbox.

Comments that you make on someone's profile page are more like notices that you put on a bulletin board -- anyone can see them, and they are highlighted on the site's homepage under 'Latest Activity'.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Boroson on February 2, 2009 at 8:52am

CONVERSATIONS: DIFFERENT WAYS TO HAVE THEM HERE

On this site, there are a number of different ways tfor you to start a conversation:

Here are some of them:

1. Blogs.

You can create a blog on your profile. This is essentially "your newsletter." You can focus on a theme (like astrology or politics) or on your process or whatever interests you. It's basically a monologue with the possibility for people to reply.

2. Discussions

You can create a Discussion on the Home page (or via the Community tab) on any subject you like. These are archived, so the discussions can continue forever. These are good for very specific topics or questions.

3. Groups

You can create a Group or join an existing Group. Membership in that group can be closed (i.e. approval is needed by whoever set up the group) or open. There can be quite a lot of file sharing (attachments, videos, etc.) within a group, and everything is archived, so future group members can find them. In a sense, each Group is a mini-community.

There are then two ways to have conversations within that Group.

a) Discussions. Within that group, any member can start a discussion on a particular sub-theme. This discussion is archived, so members can comment at any time in the future.

b) Send Messages. Members can send a message to all the other members of that group (assuming this function has been enabled by the administrator). This means that all members of the group would receive that message in their Inbox on this site, and if they have email notification set up (in their settings) they will also receive a copy of that message via email. This is a more active or 'instant' form of converstation than simply posting a comment or a reply to a threaded discussion. Itcreates an environment similar to "holo-cert" or "holo-interest." These messages are not archived and cannot be seen by future members of the group. Because the Groups are topic-based, unlike holo-cert or holo-interest, you are only having that conversation with a more limited group of people -- those who share your particular interest.

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