Intro to ISEnet
The first thing you'll want to do is sign in (or join if you haven't already!)
Once you've signed in, you'll see a personalized greeting, and you'll be able to use the purple bar at the very top:
Clicking on one of the icons will make the selection drop down:
Clicking on the "My Settings" link will bring you to your account settings where you can change your account info or your privacy settings.
Your home page
Click on the "My Page" tab at the top to go to your home page. This is your very own page to customize as you wish. You can even add your own blog! It’s simple to upload photos, videos and add your own captions!
Message Boards
There are two places you can post discussion questions to the community.
- Main Discussion Page: Click the "Discussions" tab to visit it (1). There are two different boxes that will search the ning for you (2). When you are ready to start your own discussion, just click the "Start a Discussion" link (3).
- Groups: In Groups such as "Tech Triumphs" and "Librarians" you can post discussions according to topic, and even create your own Group. Click the "Groups" tab to visit.
You can sort by "Most Members" or by most recent.
The "Share" button allows you to send an email to your friends and so they can respond to your post and join the discussion:
Friends
To send a community member a "friend request," click on the “add as a friend” link, located under their main profile picture on the upper left corner. Once that person accepts your request, you will be friends and you can track each other’s activity on the community!
Other options
Comments: Comments are separate from message board responses. A comment is a message from you about the thing you are looking at or reading. You can comment on another member’s page, picture, blog entry or video. The comment will appear on that page.
Photos & Videos: You can upload photos and videos either from your homepage, or by clicking the "Photos" or "Videos" tab. You can upload your own videos from computer, and you can also add YouTube videos to the Videos section. You can also insert YouTube videos into your discussion posts: Go to the desired video on http://www.youtube.com/ and copy and paste the “embed” code, located on the upper right, directly into your posting on the ning site.
Invite: Allows you to send an invitation via email to a friend who is not yet a community member. Just add your friend’s name and email address and they’ll receive an email from us!
Tags: A tag is a key word. Adding tags to your comments, videos, photos, etc., allows you to search for other pages with similar tags. You can add tags to any discussion, even ones someone else started!
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are provided for a variety of different sections of our network. You can subscribe to feeds for the Main Discussion area, the Latest Activity, or subscribe to a Group feed, for example. You can use these feeds with a variety of RSS reader software and web-based news readers or personalizable homepages (like iGoogle or My Yahoo!)
Besides offering RSS feeds for ISEnet content, you can add RSS feeds to your homepage. Your RSS box on the left vertical bar, under your photos, allows you to enter the URL of your blog or another blog that you like. Your friends can see the titles of the blog entries as well as small excerpts!