PkVz Tutorial Part 4 – Groups
Groups are a very important part of any kind of social networks. I suppose this is due to many reasons. If the main purpose of one is to share things, groups are a very good way of doing so.
There are as much kind of groups as you could imagine, from silly things (like one I joined sometime of people who cannot stop using ‘lol’) to fan sites. There are, of course, specific poker groups, some of them with a lot of interest. I’ve created a Hold’em Manager group, for example. I’d like to post every new version link and open discussions about average stats and other freak things. I mean… there lots of things to do within groups, so even in poker is an useful tool.
Let’s describe how to create one, ok? Click on the Group tab (this step is pretty intuitive). There you’ll see the groups recently joined by your friends, groups that have been unptaded recently and finally your groups. You can search for any group through the search bar, and add some filters if you want. To create one go to the Create New Group button.
I think there is nothing interesting to say about the Group info editor. Well, yes. There aren’t much networks at the moment, so it’ll be great if you could create the one you really thought your group belongs to. And another thing: this steps will be the same that you’ll find whenever you’ll want to edit your group, so this is the place to write every recent new (this is the place where I post HM’s new versions).
The step 2 is about uploading the main picture of the group. It is important to say that here you’ll be able to edit the access, and wall options.
Finally you can invite all of your friends (and I definitly suggest you to do that).
Inside groups you can upload more photos and videos. This is specially interesting if you’d like to share some of your recorded hands, for example. Like ‘This is my fan site. This is how good I play’ or something lol. An user created recently a High Stakes Poker group, I suggest you to go there and post your favourite hands of the show. I think everybody loves to comment those hands (check out the latest durrrr’s bluff against Greenstein and Eastgate, so sick).
So this is what I have to say about groups. If I forgot something important comment it.
See ya!
PkVz Tutorial Part III: Privacy options
Today we’re going to take a look at the Privacy set up. I don’t really what the default options are, so we’re not going to describe anything about that. We’ll discuss how to set the Privacy options in a standard and positive way for the community.
In fact, what is the purpose of activating all the possible privacy filters, when you’re inside a community where sharing poker knowledge and stuff is the goal? Probably it has no sense indeed. So, we’re going to suggest the better options to achieve this.
This doesn’t mean you have to share absolutly all your information and everything you have on your profile. It’s only about sharing everything that could be positive your friends to know.
Let’s first take a look at the profile privacy. Click on edit settings inside the profile tab. You’ll see many categories, being posible to decide whether we want all our networks, friends, some of them, or just friends, to be able to see every single category. I really suggest actually all the four upper categories (Profile, Online Status, Friends and wall) to be visible. The contacto info is something that you could share through messages to those who request some of this kind, so perhaps with the exception of the e-mail I suggest you not to share this info but just to friends, or directly not editing it in the Profile editor.
Let’s go now to the Search options. I suggest your profile to be visible for all those who look after it, of course and let the people to see your photo, send messages, add you as a friend. Depending of how proud of your friends are you, feel free to let everyone to see your list.
Now we get to one of the most important privacy options: the News Feeds. I really suggest you to activate all of them, so all of your friends can see what you’re doing in their Home Page. This is specially important because is the best way to keep active the community. I know you want your friends to comment your hands and know what hands you commented, for example. Active these News Feed and I suggest all of them, folk!
Same thing applies to the Mini Feeds (only that this will only visible in your profile).
These are overall the important things. Only two more things to say. Perhaps it’ll be convenient that you let see your basic info and photo to those persons, not friends of yours, to who you send a message.
The last two tabs are about blocking people. Did you see a person who’s sending you Spam. There are two things to do. Block him first and then contact the PkVz team and notify that we have a spammer inside the community.
Hope this was helpful.
Regards!