Tips and Tricks: Be in Control of Your Privacy
June 20, 2008Hi there i.phers!
Got a bit of exciting news for you! While version 3 nears its completion, we have also given more focus on adding community centered features. This will include featured blogs, featured albums, as well different venues for discussion and sharing between i.ph bloggers! These changes will be incorporated into the soon to updated i.ph main page! Watch out for that one!
On a similar note, we have a few tips on how you can better engage your own community of readers! Notifications are always useful to alert your readers when you have something new on your blog but wouldn’t it be even better if you could target specific groups or individuals about a post that’s posted specially AND just for them? Well guess what. Your i.ph blogs can do exactly that and it’s incredibly easy too! Check out these two short tutorial videos to learn how!
You can grant access permissions to anyone, including people who don’t have i.ph accounts! You can also create an unlimited number of privileged access groups as well as assign any individual to as many groups as you want! The best thing is that your private posts remain invisible to people who you did not give access to and are never, NEVER indexed by search engines. Pretty cool eh? So go ahead and try it out!
Add People to your Privileged Groups
May 28, 2007I.PH's privacy settings really sets itself apart from the pack because it gives you the ability to add people to your Privileged Group even if they aren't on I.PH. Today, I'm going to show you how. It's really easy!
Login to you I.PH account and click on DASHBOARD on your top bar to enter your control panel. Click on Add People to open the Add Connections Dialog box:
How to create a Privileged or Private Post
May 22, 2007One of my favorite features on I.PH is the ability to post privately. By making what we call a Privileged Post, I can put up an article on my blog that is only visible to people I choose. What sets I.PH apart is that the people I give permission to view the post, don't even need to have an I.PH account. If i know their email, I can share a private post with them. Your Privileged Posts cannot be seen by anyone who you don't give permission to. They don't even know that such a post exists. All the comments made in a Privileged Post are hidden as well. The whole post is also invisible to search engines so security is ensured. Pretty neat trick eh?
So how do you create a Privileged Post on your I.PH blog? It's simple really:
- Put the title of your blog, the content and your tags.
- Scroll down a little bit, Below the post window, above the Tags, you'll see the Advanced Settings Header..
- Click on the button on the right side of the Advanced Settings header.
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- This will show you the Restrict Groups Section
- Select Private to make your post a Privileged Post
- Click on the name of the group that you want to give exclusive access to your post.
- You can also add the email of people who are not in your network on the smaller box to the right. You can add as many email addresses as you want.
- Then after you're done giving permissions, click on Publish. You're Privileged Post will be up on your blog, visible only to the people you chose.
So there. It's really easy. Try it out for yourself. And share with us the real life applications you have for this feature in the I.PH Forums. Tomorrow I'll show you how to create Privileged Groups. Catch you guys again soon!
