tips-and-tricks in All of The Pool

Hello,

Since creating groups in GroupSwim is so easy, you can start blogs for your organization, team, or anyone for that matter.  Here are a couple of ways to do it:

1.    Create an auto-join (under Privacy and Permissions in Group Settings) group and name it Blogs (or whatever you want).  This gives anyone in the site access to it and anyone can post a blog and reply
2.    Create an auto-join group but make the blog for one person (one of our clients’ CEO does this).  Here is how you configure it:

Hello,

You may not have realized, but GroupSwim can serve as an excellent document repository for your group.  There are three ways to add documents:

1. Attach them to a discussion

Hello,

Here are a couple of pointers to help with the GroupSwim invitation process:

Scenario 1 - Inviting members to the community

1.  Click on the "Invite members" link on the main page, from groups, or from manage members.  It is almost always available under actions on the right.  Depending on how you've configured your site, this option will available to managers or everyone.

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2. Fill in the email addresses of the people you want to invite or paste them in.  The addresses should be separated by commas.  Once you are happy with the invitation, hit the button "Invite Members".

Hello,

We just added (as of 2/11/08) tag training to GroupSwim.   This gives community and group owners and managers the ability to add preferred tags at a site level and a group level.  It also allows you to add definitions to tags.  For example, you can say a tag is an example of something else.  In this case, Tivo is an example of DVR (Digital Video Recorder).  If our semantic engine sees the word Tivo, it will immediate suggest Tivo and DVR as suggested tags.  Adding tags and definitions will signficantly enhance the value of your community and the knowledge it develops.  Tag training is for site and group owners and managers only.

Hello,

First, click on the site settings on the home page (new sites can skip this step.  It is turned on at the site level for you):

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Once you are in site settings, you'll need to enable email in for the site:

Check the box to turn it on:

Now that you've turned it on for your site, you'll need to turn it on for each group where you want to use it.  Click into a group to turn it on (FAQ on the screen shot below):