The Official Unofficial ActiveRain Guide


ActiveRain encourages all members to share our knowledge,
and everything we need to know is just waiting to be found.

How do we easily find what we need?

A new member of ActiveRain (Newbie) has little knowledge of what to search for and if they begin their ActiveRain experience by reading The Dead Rain Scrolls and scrolls and scrolls of outdated Posts, they may be lost forever.  Newbies need a current Beginner's Guide To Success in the Rain. 


Per ActiveRain, this is required reading:

Weltanschauung: The guiding principles and philosophy of an organization; a world view

Understanding The Guiding Principles and Philosophy of ActiveRain is essential knowledge for ALL Members.


 

The Official Unofficial ActiveRain Guide
(Written by the members for the members)


In the beginning, ALL Newbies should seek out and join The ActiveRain Newbies Group.  After joining, immediately read at least three posts that have been written by Active Rain Members.  Take a deep breath and then leave a comment on your favorite post. 

Log on ActiveRain every day, read at least three posts and leave a comment.  As your confidence quickly builds, increase the amount of reading and the number of comments that you leave. 

Welcome to your new adventure. 

 

While reading and commenting, begin to learn and connect with other members...

What is Active Rain?  A Comprehensive FAQ

What's with all the Points?  The ActiveRain Point System

What's the meaning of Stars and other Symbols?  Titles, Designations and Accomplishments

Why should I leave comments?  Joining The Conversation

How to build better relationships: Why Associate, Why Subscribe, Why, Why Why?

How and why to join a Group: ActiveRain Group Analysis


Creating Your ActiveRain Profile

How To Set-Up Your ActiveRain Profile Part 1: Your Photo, Contact Information and Description

How to Set-up Your ActiveRain Profile Part 2: Maximizing The Value and Benefits of Your Profile

How to present a better image on ActiveRain: How to improve your Active Rain Profile

How do I contact The ActiveRain Staff for assistance?  The Staff is ALWAYS available to help.


Creating Your ActiveRain Blog

How to improve the appearance of your Blog: Need a little help DECORATING your Blog?

How to select your Blog Theme: Everything you want to know about Themes (Series)

How to improve your Blog Signature: ActiveRain Blog Signature (Series)

How to add Links in your Blog Sidebar: Everything you want to know about Sidebar Links


How To Write A Post

It begins with The Title: How to Write A Catchy Blog Post Title that POPS

Pick a GOOD Topic: How to Write a Market Report for your Real Estate Blog

Helpful Writing Advice: Dynamic Writing Technique


How To Improve Your Blog Resources

How to make letters bigger and colorful: Spice up your text with color and size

How to add pictures to your post: How to insert a picture into an Activerain Post

How to enhance and frame your pictures: Turning an average photo into a Great Photo

How to organize photos in a post: How to Create a Photo Collage

How to add hyperlinks to your post: How to create HyperLinks to Anchor Text

How to maximize your links: Linking and Beyond

How to get more comments on your post: The Facts are in the Stats

How and why to RE-BLOG: RE-BLOGGING and BEYOND


SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Resources: 

SEO Basics

Essentials for Effective SEO Blogging

SEO Assistance


Video Resources:

Ten Video Tips For Real Estate Agents

How to Join YouTube     How to upload a video to YouTube     How to edit a video on YouTube

My YouTube Channel Featuring Community Related Videos as "Samples"

Debb Janes YouTube Channel Featuring Community Related Videos as "Samples"

How to embed and center a video in your post

How to embed a video in your Sidebar

How to embed a video in your Profile

How to embed a video in your Blog Signature

Join The VBloggers Group to learn and share video knowledge and content

Join The YouTube Thursdays Group to Increase YOUR YouTube Subscribers


Additional Resources:

How to dominate Google with Active Rain

Craig's Classroom provides a wealth of Technical Information

NEW MEMBERS - Start Here

Blogger Startup Kit

ActiveRain University

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114 Comments on The Official Unofficial ActiveRain Guide

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NOV
29
2011
378,688 Points 84 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard - amazing that you put this all together with all the links - talk about a lot of hard work. This is a great guide for newbies and veterans alike and I will be checking out a few links as a refresher! Great job!

3:58pm • #95
1,450,994 Points 46 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Richard, I have bookmarked this and will check out some of the links.

6:14pm • #96
123,510 Points 1 Featured Post

Love it!! I'm still trying to get my banner worked out.  I'll be sure to follow the link on that.

7:42pm • #97
388,783 Points 21 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Richard, I didn't know there was a Official Unofficial ActiveRain Guide.

I'm here over a year and still learning new things, great info to bookmark.

8:48pm • #98
847,787 Points 71 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard, You are always full of surprises.  This is a great resource guide for Newbies and old-timers too!  This took a lot of time to put together.  I know the AR community appreciates your hard work.

9:00pm • #99
1,022,995 Points 15 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

You know I have been around for some time and have about 750K points.  I am still going to bookmark this and go over it.

10:49pm • #100
NOV
30
2011
812,963 Points 243 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard, this is an excellent collection of resources. One thing that I don't see is how to embed a video in the comments- here is a link to a short vid on how to do so

2:36pm • #101
413,687 Points 88 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Darn it Phil, I spent my 20s working on it but I never did the the whole thing worked out. 

 

9:02pm • #102
236,943 Points 5 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Leslie, by now we know the game on ActiveRain and we're gonna play it.

Cheers,

Robin

 

9:06pm • #103
413,687 Points 88 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Robin, this is a very serious business enterprise.

 

9:12pm • #104
352,402 Points 39 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

Hi Again, I keep reading all of your comments and appreciate each one.  I'll continue to add appropriate and helpful posts to The Official Unofficial ActiveRain Guide in the future.  I have already identified a few good ones.

Phil, While the link you provided is entertaining, it does not deliver the goods.  FYI: I didn't feel that it was appropriate for EVERYONE to know how to embed a video in comments.  That's best left to specially trained and certified members like YOU.  I was very happy to find and include your post in The Unofficial Guide.

How to Write a Market Report for your Real Estate Blog

9:25pm • #105
DEC
01
2011
618,828 Points 10 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard, what a marvelous compendium. I'm certain it took tons of work to put it together, but the value to others is extrene. Kudos to you.

12:38am • #106
409,637 Points 14 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Richard, you have done it again!  Great information for all of us.  I have bookmarked too!

8:40am • #107
231,578 Points 8 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard - that is an awesome blog/ guide especially for newbies. thanks for putting the list together.

9:04am • #108
310,127 Points 19 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Hi Richard. I featured this in the Newbie group, and then you got featured by AR and apparently either updated this post or something because it FELL out of the newbie group...Just an FYI, once a post gets featured and its updated, it loses its feature status in the group.

3:59pm • #109
317,758 Points 18 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Richard, I stopped by here just to see what all was added and of course what did I find?  Exactly what I am looking for!  How to write a market report for your blog!!!  Realtors have to blog about some of the boringestistisisy things!  :)

9:02pm • #110
DEC
10
235,021 Points 8 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

WOW - this is an awesome resource list, Richard!  Marshall Enterprises re-blogged this post and I just happen to be scrolling the blog roll. I'm so glad I did.  Thank you...

6:31pm • #111
521,882 Points 10 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Hi, Richard! 

  Ron Marshall Re-Blogged this...  it is still Looking good, lots of great Information.

 

6:51pm • #112
1,498,337 Points 352 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi Richard...

I came across this oldie but goodie on a reblog ... it's as good today as the day that you wrote it!

9:16pm • #113
352,402 Points 39 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

Hi Everyone, This really was an oldie and I was surprised to see that Marshall Enterprises Re-Blogged it.  Thank you!  I'm quite certain that a few of these links are outdated due to ActiveRain System Modifications, but hopefully much of the content is still good.  Best wishes to each of you.  

9:42pm • #114

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