As we are going through your Active Rain blog structure we have covered the following tutorials;
Active Rain Tutorial- It's All In Your Name?
Active Rain Tutorial- How to Get Mileage from Your Active Rain Profile
Active Rain Tutorial- Profile Page- Make It Shine For You.
Today we will answer a question that we receive a lot and a few extra goodies and that is: what are all those little symbols at the bottom of your posts after you publish your post to Active Rain?
First let's start with the most frequent question that was asked in the previous tutorials:
How Do You Bookmark A Post That You Like On Active Rain?
At the bottom of any post that you read there are these 4 little symbols or buttons.
There is one here that you click to bookmark the post. Once you click on BOOKMARK the color will change to red.
Now after you bookmark the post how do you find your bookmarks?
You go over here to your home page, scroll down on the left side you will see a list of links and one of those links will say, Blog Bookmarks.
Click on this link and up will come all of your bookmarked posts. The problem with these bookmarks is that there is no way to organize them which is of course on the wish list given to the techie gurus at Active Rain to come up with some way to organize your bookmarks. They are organized by the last comment made on that particular bookmarked post.
There are some other ways to bookmark and organize your favorite posts but we will learn that on a different tutorial. This is an Active Rain tutorial.
There are some other really nifty little tools next to the bookmark button. You can email a post to others by using the email feature of your favorite posts, this is a great way to make some of your favorite bloggers go viral. Please keep in mind that you can email 'members only' posts. Just the public posts.
The other button is the the Flag button. This is the best feature that Active Rain has in this section. When you fit the flag button you get several options. If you think a post is feature worthy, you know, to earn the coveted gold star then you just click the flag button and then check off the box that says FEATURE! Please bear in mind that whenever you use the flagging feature Active Rain Corp knows who you are. SO if you LOVE to feature yourself, they will be able to tell that it is you and not someone else!
You also can flag the spammer and plagiarized content here. If you see those famous copy and pastes simply flag it for plagiarism and add the URL of the website the content was copied from. Then the post will get the dreaded yellow X .
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, the next Active Rain tutorial will be about all the choices of where to post your Active Rain post to.
Active Rain Tutorial- Bookmarking and more! by Katerina Gasset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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