How To Submit New Posts ?
Click on submit once you have logged into your Blog Engage Account. You will then get an option of adding an URL to your post.
Add some basic details about your post like headline, post summary, category, tags and a description. Then just hit 'Preview and Submit'.
Once you have submitted your post, you will be able to see your post on our Upcoming page.
How To Update Your Profile ?
To update your profile, login to your Blog Engage account and go to Settings page. The first option that you get is changing your avatar.
You can change your password. To change it, you need to enter your old password along with the new one.
You can change your personal details like public email, private email, occupation, location etc.
You can add your social media account links to your Blog Engage profile. Your profile visitors will check you out and know more about you.
You can select your categories on which you want to receive updates on your Blog Engage homepage.
You can subscribe to comments on your stories. You can also configure your status update settings where you can enable some useful features.
How To Use The Site Chat ?
To use the site chat, you should be logged in to your account.
Once you have logged in, you can see members who are already logged in and chat with them. You can just type your message and hit 'Enter'.
You can use some of our special chat features like handwriting a message, send a file, share a whiteboard, view your chat history or even save a conversation.
How To Send Private Messages ?
To send private messages, you should be logged in to your account. Once logged in, you can go the member's profile to whom you want to send a private message.
After you send your message, you can check it on your profile. You can click on 'Messaging' to get the details of all your messages.
You can actually see your received and sent messages similar to how an online email client works.
How To Vote Up Comments and Stories ?
To vote up stories and comments, you should be logged in to your account. Once logged in, you can vote up stories. To vote up comments, you need to go the individual story page.
You can vote up stories from either the upcoming page or the homepage. You can also go to the individual story page and vote them up. Please note you can vote up stories only once.
You can vote up comments only from the individual story page. Please note you can vote up comments only once.
How To Make Use Of The Groups ?
To join a group, you need to be logged in to your Blog Engage account. You can click on Groups, and it will show you groups which are there on Blog Engage.
When you join a group, you will be able to see what other members have shared and how much vote they have received.
You can share stories on the Groups that you have joined. You will get the option of submitting your stories to the group when you're submitting the story itself.
How To Make Use Of The Status Wall ?
The status wall is similar to how Facebook status updates work. You can follow your friend's activities.
On the status wall, can create an update by tagging your friend. It's similar to how you tag people on Twitter.
You can like your friend's updates similar to how it works on Facebook.
How To Make Use Of The Live Page ?
On the live page, you can check the status of each of the posts. For those which have been recently submitted, their action would be 'Submission'. For those which have received a vote, their state would be 'UpVote'.
From the Live Page, you can also sort posts based on Published, Upcoming and Comments.
You can also see the latest posts that has been recently been submitted. Selecting 'Commented' will give you the post that has recently been commented on along with the comments.
How To Sort Posts Based On Your Requirements ?
You can sort the published posts based on time duration like 'Yesterday', 'Week', 'Month' 'Year' and 'All'. You also have option of filtering posts using comments and votes.
You can also sort 'Upcoming Posts' based on the same criteria as the 'Published Posts'.
How To Make Use Of The Top Users ?
You can check out some of the top users of Blog Engage on this page. They are ranked based on 3 criteria - Blogs, Published and Comments.
From the rankings, you can check out what works to rise up in the Top Users section. You can get clues on how to reach the top.
How To Make Use Of Tags On Blog Engage ?
You can add tags to your posts, while submitting it on Blog Engage. Make sure you add tags that are relevant to your post.
In the tag cloud page, you can find all the tags on Blog Engage.
Clicking on a tag will open all the posts that are there under that particular tag.
How To Make Use Of The Navigator On Blog Engage ?
You can navigate through blogs very easily through the navigator. You just have to click on the unique link of each story.
Using the 'Next Link' and the 'Previous Link' you can move forward and backward between links.
Using the navigator, you can vote up and down a story, make a comment and also share the story.
