Posting tips

The first role of a busy body is to make sure everyone knows what they're doing. So here's my 10 steps to writing a post.

1. Firstly, if you want to make a post to go in a specific community, make sure you join that community first.

2. Start a new post by clicking "Write a post", the top choice in the menu to the left.

3. A normal post encompasses everything that's not a post about a restaurant or venue. The options for posting about restaurants and venues include essential info about the restaurant or venue in question from a marketing communications perspective.

4. Write what you want to write.

To add a hyperlink, select the text you wish to make a link, then click the link icon at the top of the editing window (looks like a link in an iron chain)
You can insert pictures and videos by clicking the icons at the top right of the editing window (hover your mouse over them for a description)
All the other icons should be self-explanatory as they have much in common with word processors

5. When you've finished writing your post, take a look down the right hand side....

6. "Share it" - allows you to set where your post is published, who can edit the post (like wikis such as Wikipedia), and who can add comments

7. "Categorise it" - means you can select which of the MarCom Professional category pages if any you'd like your post to feature on. You can select more than one; but only if it's relevant please!

8. "Tag it" - every post will have one or two keywords that describe it. This makes finding posts on interesting topics easier for other members. A tag may be a featured organisation, person or place. You can add tags one at a time, or type them all in to the box separated by spaces and then click Add. (Please note that two words will be treated as two tags. So if you want to tag something "pay per click" for example, you should use "payperclick" or "ppc".)

9. "Attach files" - you may have a file to accompany your post, in which case this is where you upload it. It could be anything: an image, a Word document, a spreadsheet, a PDF, etc. As this will be accessible to readers of your post, you will be given the option to set the level of copyright you'd like to apply. Easy.

10. Lastly, click Save & Close. If you haven't completed some of the steps above, you may now be prompted to do so if this is the first version of your post. If you have edited an existing post, rather than authored a new one, then you will be invited to leave a quick note describing your edits. For example, "Added some tags", "Inserted some more examples", "Hyperlinked the organisations listed".

Job done. We can't make it any more intuitive than that. Although if you think we can, please add your comments here :-)