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November 2008 Blog Posts (4)

Privacy - make sure you read and understand the settings

On the right hand side where the 'inbox' 'alerts' 'friends' are is the 'settings' icon.

This is where you can control the privacy of your page - that is, who can comment on your page, if you would prefer to approve comments before they appear, also, what activities are promoted on the main page. you might not want people to know everytime you comment on someone's page but you might want to let the homepage reflect when you've updated your blog.

Added by candygourlay on November 30, 2008 at 22:04 — 2 Comments

"Friends - Invite" ... Please don't!

Okay - on the right hand side of the page, you can see those little icons "inbox" "alerts" "friends-invite" and "settings"?



Here's the thing: please, please don't invite friends from your address book.



Our Ning is supposed to be SCBWI members only, so if you invite your friends, they will try to sign up, and then the administrators of our Ning (that's me and other volunteers) will get an email that so and so wants to sign up. And then we contact SCBWI in the USA to check… Continue

Added by candygourlay on November 30, 2008 at 21:31 — 3 Comments

Turn off Activity Display to Streamline Your Page

If you'd rather not have all your activities showing at the top of your profile page (I personally don't) then turn it off. Click edit to do so.

Added by candygourlay on November 30, 2008 at 20:30 — No Comments

Are you being read?

Though British and a SCBWI member, I live in Australia where I'm Coordinator of the SCBWI Queensland Chapter. I look forward to sharing as much as possible while the rules of being allowed here are clarified. At the SCBWI International Conference in Sydney, an editor overheard a casual conversation I was having, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Peter, you write well!" This was a surprise, as I had never sent anything to them.

If you've not set up a page on… Continue

Added by Peter Taylor on November 28, 2008 at 20:33 — 1 Comment

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