What to do about spam?
Spam, unfortunately this is one of the things that comes with having an open website. But where there is a decease there is a cure….so also for this one!
Spam, unfortunately this is one of the things that comes with having an open website. But where there is a decease there is a cure….so also for this one!
Your MeetingPoint is all about sharing knowledge and ideas. You can do this via articles, so called Posts. Read more to find out how to do that.
As said, it is al about sharing and discussing on your MeetingPoint. It is really easy to start a discussion. Do like this:
You can insert a video (QuickTime) in your post, to do this follow the next steps:
- Click on “Write a post” in the sidebar of the homepage
- Scroll down to the Upload tool, click on “Browse”…
You can comment to a post but you also can comment to a comment or differently said, you can reply to a comment.
You can insert an image into your post, to do this follow the next steps:
Of course it is important to have a save password to login, but also one that you can easily remember. In order to change yours, do this:
Sharing info about yourself can be very interesting for other people in the community.




If you directly paste from Word, or another program, into the Excerpt or Post box the text will get HTML coding with it. This can make the post look weird (bold, different font etc). To overcome this problem you have to do this…




The option Workgroups enables you to form groups that can write and read posts only accessible to the members of these groups. The members of a workgroup can read and comment to the posts and write posts them self.
To use the option workgroups add a category parent named Workgroups (see Manage Categories). In this category parent you can make subcategories that represent different workgroups. If you are going to use workgroups make sure there are posts in the subcategories, when there are no posts it’s not going to work.




Link categories are the categories where you can place your links in. You use a link category for instance for the Blogroll, Horizontal navigation and Feeds.




You can use links for the horizontal navigation, feeds or the blogroll. Links can be internal and external as long as it has an URL.




As said before, your MeetingPoint is easily manageable. You can also change the header and footer by yourself if you wish to do so.




In the Features sidebar of the Write a post screen you can find the option Categories. This option is used to categorize posts. Apart from this categorization, you can also find the options:




The top story is the post that is shown at the top of the homepage of your MeetingPoint.




You can use post populating to get the cover, book description and customer comments from a book you like straight from Amazon. Just by entering the ISBN or ASIN number of the book.
If you want add books to your meetingpoint…