We'll use this page to try and address some of the more frequently
asked questions we receive. If you've got a question you think
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How do I get videos on the site? You cannot upload videos to
the site, but you can 'Embed' them from another site. What that
means is that you are able to view the video on this site while the
other site still hosts the video file. You can do this in any text
field on the site, especially Discussion or Blog posts. When you
are typing your post you can simply insert the code to embed video
from whatever site you wish. For example, on YouTube, to the right
of the video you will see a section with a couple links in it, one
of them is labled 'Embed'. Select and copy the text in that field
and paste it in your post. There you have it.
I've joined the "Private" group, which is supposed to be a
closed group, but my comments there are showing on my page! These
are supposed to be private, aren't they? If you are part of a
private group and visit another users page who is also part of that
group you will see their activity in the private group on your
page. This is because you are part of the group as well and
therefore have permission to see it. If another user who was not
part of the group visited that same page, they would not see the
information in the feed because they do not have the right
"permissions."
What can a "friend" do that other members of The Max Lucado
Community cannot do? Your friends can send you private messages
through the community. Besides them, this is something only the
Administrators can do. You can also set your content—videos,
photos, blog posts—to be viewable by "Just My Friends" rather than
by the network at large. You'll find many other features throughout
the site that utilize your friends list. This isn't MySpace or
Facebook...you not in some sort of contest to see how many friends
you can accumulate here. We encourage you to use the friends
feature as a tool to help manage your interactions on the site.
How do privacy settings for pictures and albums work?
Privacy settings are picture specific not album specific. In fact
your albums can contain not just your pictures, but any pictures
you have permission to access on the entire Max Lucado Community
system. So, for example, you could create a photo album for an
event you attended and include other people's pictures from the
event in that album. Those individual pictures privacy settings
would then be applied to the album so that a user viewing the album
would only be able to see pictures that they were supposed to see.
Albums are a way of grouping pictures and do not affect the privacy
of the pictures.
How can I check to see if there are people out here in my area
to connect with? I think the best way to do this is using the
Search. On certain pages the Search is content sensitive, which
you'll see that on the button itself. If you go to the Members page
and search, it will search through all the members. The other
option is the Site Search that is on all pages, which obviously
will search the whole site. I live in Texas, so if I want to find
peeps in Texas I search for 'Texas' as well as 'TX' from different
pages. The results vary, but leave me with enough information that
I can see most everyone from Texas. Members do not have to list
where they are from so unless they leak that info out in a blog or
discussion, you won't be able to find them. They just may want it
that way, and that's ok. Try searching different pages. Or search
the Groups and see if there are any 'located' in your area. Or
maybe better yet, you could also create your own group with the
intent for people in your area to join it.
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