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.
Nestor Gasset and Katerina Gasset- Realtors®, CIPS, ABR, SFR, GRI, REOS
My question is how do you find time to write such detailed, graphically-intensive posts while running your real estate business?
Awesome as always...
Great post for newbies. Vut, i didn't know about the flag to feature posts. thanks for the updates.
Excellent. Thank you; I am off to read your other tutorials.
This is great info. I can't believe I missed the email option. Ditto for suggesting a feature - good to know. Thanks!
Liz
Thanks again Katerina.
Kat - I'm looking forward to when Active Rain has time to let us organize our bookmarks here. After bookmarking for a couple of years, it's hard to find the ones we want.
I use understand them and use them, but not as often as I shouldThanks for the update tutorial
Bo
I didn't figure out the featured post button until a couple of weeks ago. I like to feature posts that entertain me and are super informative.
Finally!!...something you taught that I already know!!
Thanks for sharing the info.
Tony- LOL! I had to stop by to laugh with you! I am glad you already know this. :) Many people asked me about the bookmark and I know that tons don't know about the feature flag:)
Jeff- I don't sleep! Today I told everyone in the office to hold my calls, don't bother me, I am blogging. Between yesterday and today I have drafted 10 posts for the week. I am on my 10th one now so I got to run. Tomorrow is my SEO webinar and I have not finished my slides yet:)
Katrina - Now the mystery of how articles are flagged for review as featured articles is now solved. Thanks for the info. I use the bookmark but wasn't aware of the flag feature.
Hi Katerina, As always, thanks for keeping us "posted"!
Sharon- I am working on a better way to do our bookmarks here. There is a way to do them and get google juice for them as well. I will post on that in a couple of weeks.
Katerina - I always love your informational posts like this because you provide such great detail that's easy to follow. Like you, I love the bookmark feature and revisit my bookmarks often when I finally get around to doing something on my blog or taking the advice that someone has shared. (I know I have several of yours organized in there) As always I am visiting and learning new things from you - thank you. ~Anne Marie
Wow, I have never clicked on the flag nor the bookmark -- never even noticed them. Thanks for telling how it works. I appreciate that. See, I always learn something new on your blog, Katerina!
Katerina, thanks for bring up these over looked points here on AR's
Elizabeth- I am glad I could someone as educated and smart as you something:) Make it a great week.
Katerina, another good post....do you have one up yet for our outside blogs? I want to make mine pretty. ;-)
Ann Marie- Thank you! That is very nice of you! I appreciate it. You are a stand up lady because you are mature enough to still respect each other even though we don't always agree! That is worth much kudos for you in my eyes.
Like Sharon, I can't wait for your post on book marking. I know I have great stuff saved, but it's a hassle to go back through. I end up doing an all new search on a topic.
Thanks Katerina! I've tried unsuccessfully to bookmark pages dozens of times. It has never worked before, and I figured it was one of those buttons that didn't work. I followed your instructions today and now I have my first bookmark.
Agreed, we need to be able to organize our bookmarks. I can never find what I am looking for.
I suspect, I could create another category in my Bookmarks on Windows, and just save them there....I can only imagine what THAT filing cabinet would look like UGH!
Thanks for the info, but I too already had this one figured out! Yippie!
Nice tutorial on what all the buttons are about. Organize those dreaded bookmarks in an easier fashion, that' what I'm interested in. Stuff ends up all over the place, but never where I want to find it fast enough. I don't know what you mean by the 'yellow x' but I believe you.
Thanks Katerina- Another well written informative post full of information we can all use. I love reading your blog.
Best,
Scott
Hi Nestor. It's interesting to drill down into the Activerain features that I hadn't fully explored and you make it easy. Interesting to find out how posts get featured, I didn't realize one could vote on them.
Hi Nestor. It's interesting to drill down into the Activerain features that I hadn't fully explored and you make it easy. Interesting to find out how posts get featured, I didn't realize one could vote on them.
Thanks you two, this is GREAT information.
There always seems to be something new to learn around AR so Im grateful for people like you who help us out!
Have a superb, productive weekend!
Tamara
Katerina - Great tutorial for newbies and not-so-newbies! Thanks for sharing... :)
Hi Katerina, It's amazing that I had already figured this out. Now I have your cool tutorial to send to my invitees! Thanks!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate posts like this one! I always learn something! Thanks for taking the time to share your expertise with us!
I did not know about flag!!! Thanks for just a detailed post.
Thank you for this- now I can clean up my favorites page on IE!
Katerina - There's little doubt in my mind that nobody does tutorials as well as you. I have to laugh because after reading your very first post, you've risen like a Phoenix and taken to the waters of AR like a natural born swimmer. As always, well done!
Nestor & Katerina,
Thanks for the tutorials, you guys are awesome, you helped my blog more in 10 minutes with the tutorials than I cpould have done myself in a dogs age.
Katrina,
Is there a directory that we can search for topics? My picture is loaded on my site, but doesn't show up when I post a comment. I would also like to add a signiture or picture... Thanks, ~ JC
I just visited Brad's "Blogger Startup Kit." Certainly a great post to bookmark as well. ;)
Boy, did I learn a few things! Thanks for posting.
More super info for newbees like me.
Thanks!
I have seen em but just never took the time to find out how to use them - thanks - as always great reading learning
I have been trying to figure bookmarking out for a while, funny it was right under my nose.
Thanks for the help!
Katerina - I am still learning the ropes here so I do appreciate this page.
I never realized you could flag for a feature that way. Great information.
Learn more everyday. Thanks!