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How do I get Started with Active Rain - Your Primer
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After you are registered on Active Rain,
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You want to complete your profile
- don't worry about how much you put, because you can always go back and add to it later
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You would now want to go "Groups"
- Go to your home page and look at the top. See below for photo --- Click on "Groups" and you will get the same kind of page as shown here below
- You just scroll through the groups and find ones that are of interest to you
- Warning -- there are over 5000 groups
- Then, you go to "write a blog post" on your home page
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Determine something about which you are passionate
- Do you have a favorite story about a client or a friend?
- Are you a golfer, or tennis player, or fisherman or swimmer, etc?
- Just sit down and start writing
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When you finish your story, you should
- Go back and be sure that you don't have long paragraphs
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Try to insert appropriate photos that pertain to your story
- how do you insert a photo? -- just click on the small photo at the top
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- Check to be sure you used no profanity or suggestive language
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Check your spelling and your grammar -- Active Rain has a tool to help you with this
- Look to the right of the button used for "insert Photo"on the tool bar --- you will see ABC with a check mark -- this checks your spelling
- You don't want to copy someone else's story without giving credit
- Be careful that you don't violate copyright laws
- Need help from the Master -- Active Brad --he has several blogs on questions and answers -- he is awesome
- If there something in your story that needs to be linked back to another site, then you just use the insert link
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- By the way, this does not show up until you have highlighted the word that you want to be linked
- Then you will click on that symbol and when the next page pops up, just insert the URL
- You will have to be sure that you have put the title in the title box
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What in the world are tags?
- For now, just words or phrases that you have used in the story
- You want to include your name and company name
- As you progress, you will learn much more about these "tags"
- What does "visibility" mean? Here is a description of your choices.
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OK, now what about "Localism.com"?
- If you want your blog to be posted to your state, your city, your neighborhood, just click on "localism.com" button and there will be a drop down menu from which you will select.
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What is "Active Rain Channels"?
If you click on this button, there will be a drop down menu.
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"My Groups" --- what is this?
- If you have not joined any groups, then there will nothing here when you click this button
- If you have joined groups, then when you click on the button, there will be a drop down of your groups
- The maximum you are allowed to select is 5
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"Categories" --- click on the button and the drop down menu shows you the possible categories --
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"My Outside blog" -- For the longest time, I checked this box, because I did not know what it was for
- Unless you have an Active Rain Outside blog, you don't check this box
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"Re-Blogging" --- If you are OK with someone else re-blogging your story, check this box
- The last 2 buttons are to be checked if they are applicable
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"Post Blog Entry" --- WOW -- you are ready to launch your story.
- Click on this
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It will then bring up this page that asked to be sure that your story does not violate the copyright law
- Once you click OK, voila! --- there will be your blog.
- If you see something right away that is not right, you can click on "edit"
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- This will take you back to your page where you were inputting the blog
- You can make your correction and then click on "Post Blog Entry" again
What do I do?
- I use my experience as a Realtor/non-competing broker
- I am always drawn to Active Rain
- I would have to say that what I'm most passionate about is Active Rain and real estate & helping others
- I also write about personal items, like a trip in the country, etc.
Hope this has been helpful. Please let me know if I can do anything to help any of your newbies out there who are trying to get going on AR. To find me, just click here Mama Liz.
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Liz Loadholt Realtor--Broker-in-charge - Trainer--Relocation Director Covering SC
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Liz.....thanks for this. I am just getting ready to invite team members and now I've got a quick post to point them to in my intial email.
Yeah!! You've made me week so much easier!
Anna Banana