Posted: October 9, 2012 | Author: Karen | Filed under: Features | Tags: hyperlocal, n0tice, noticeboard, users |
This week our featured n0tice member is
Mike Rawlins. Mike shares his hints and tips for new n0tice users.
Can you tell us a little about yourself and your background please?
Hello! I’m Mike I have been messing around on the Internet for the best part of 20 years now. I’ve been blogging on various sites about all manner of things since about 1999. My particular interest has been mobile photography and I’ve been posting pictures from my phone since 2004. When I’m not uploading pictures or writing I work for
Talk About Local where I am working on Geolocation & Augmented Reality projects and looking at how this technology can be leveraged & used as a pubic service.
You are one of the early adopters of n0tice. What advice would you give people who are thinking of starting their own n0ticboard?
Do it, it is very simple to upload things while you are out and about with the mobile app of if you are at your desk using the website. People often think, ‘why do I need this’ or ‘what should I post’, my answer to that is you probably don’t ‘need’ it but it is fun, why not post a picture of that cool bit of street art you pass every day on your way to the office, or even if it is something that annoys you like bad parking. That is on a very personal level but if you are more civic minded then you could start a community n0ticeboard and post all the events and notices that get stuck on the traditional noticeboards where you live, put a 21 century layer on to a centuries old communication platform.
What element of n0tice do you find most useful and why? The reports, events or offers?
I use n0tice mainly for reports, I have posted the occasional event that I have seen but I do tend to use it just as another way of posting content that I want to share.
Going forward, how do you see yourself developing you usage of n0tice? How will it suit your needs?
I’m not sure quite how I’ll change or develop my usage just yet, I’d like to run a community noticeboard but the area where I live is very well covered with local websites so I’d be doing something that is already being done but I am trying to get the local site owners to try n0tice. n0tice is still developing as a platform so as that changes I’m sure the way I use it may change, right now I’m happy to just post things.
Posted: April 9, 2012 | Author: sarah | Filed under: user-help | Tags: follow, following, howto, n0tice, noticeboard, noticeboards, users |
This post is to help you find some people to follow.
n0tice is a bit like twitter in that way and following means you can keep track of what some of the other notice-ers are doing. We’ve already logged in and you can see something called ‘
my stream’ near the top left hand corner of the screen.
When you click there for the first time, you’ll be offered a way to personalise your experience by
following users or noticeboards. If you take a look at ‘
users’ first
That’s the
n0tice.com team and some of the other people who use n0tice the most you can see. Feel free to follow us and don’t forget we’re always on hand if you need any help. You do this by clicking on the ‘follow’ button next to the names of people you want to keep track on.
Maybe you want to follow people who are in your area or those who share your interests? You can search for people via the the tab marked ‘topic or location’. Try putting in your local area or something that someone might have used to describe the activity such as crafts or streetart.
Or it could be that you know the persons name already, in which case search under the user name tab.
When it comes to
following noticeboards, it’s basically the same process. Simply choose those that are relevant to your location or interests and, everytime those boards are updated, you’ll see the content in your stream without having to search for it. This will happen wherever you are so you can keep a check on what’s happening in the places you are interested in even if you are not actually there.
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Author: sarah | Filed under: user-help | Tags: dipity, n0tice, n0ticestreetart, noticeboards, reader, rss, streetart, syndication, timeline, twitterfeed, users, widget, yahoopipes |
If you’re a noticeboard owner, you might have spotted that familiar orange RSS symbol on the right-hand side of your noticeboard.
Really Simple Syndication means limitless numbers of people can choose to subscribe to your noticeboard just by simply adding it to their RSS reader such as googlereader, netnewswire, feedreader or similar.
But there’s other fun uses too.
Here’s four ideas on how to use it:
* Add the feed to twitterfeed and create a instant twitter account which will automatically alert your followers with each update. Here’s how the @n0ticeStreetArt noticeboard is using the feature to create.
* Create a widget on your blog to automatically update with every posting on your noticeboard. I’ve created one on my personal blog - take a look at the right-hand side. It now automatically updates with the reports, events and offers that are posted to the Northerner noticeboard.
* Use yahoopipes to collate multiple noticeboards into a single feed to make it easier to monitor a particular geography or interest (or both!) This is a simple pipe made by combining three noticeboards which take an interest in music – GuardianMusic, music and sessions.
* Display and share your noticeboard in a timeline format. In addition to giving people an interesting way to explore recent events, it creates a simple way of archiving your posts. This is how the busy noticeboard InsidetheM60 looks using the free service
Any more to add to this list? Do let us know how you use your RSS feed.
The announcement about the RSS feeds for noticeboard owners went out to our newsletter subscribers last Tuesday. If you want to be the first with news of new features – sign up here.
Posted: November 25, 2011 | Author: sarah | Filed under: user-help | Tags: help, n0tice, noticeboard, update, users |
Here’s a brief list of the latest features and improvements which Daniel has just released for our growing number of users on n0tice.com.
There’s some general site improvements too;
- Lots of speed improvements, the website should be quite a bit faster
and bug free.
- Events now split into Upcoming and Past events. (quite a few
requests).
- Embeddable media content can be posted in the headline, like a
youtube or twitter link perhaps.
The biggest improvements are in noticeboards:
- You can create more than one noticeboard.
- You can invite people to become an admin on your noticeboard.
- Appointed admins can now take action on items posted on your
noticeoard.
- Raise and respond to issues in the moderation panel.
- Edit or Delete content appropriately.
- Multiple improvements to the analytics and moderation of a
noticeboard.
If you haven’t yet joined up for n0tice.com – you can request an invite by leaving your email at the site.
