Vox Tip: Blog and Group Privacy
As we've highlighted before, you have a range of privacy levels available to you when you're adding content to your blog. From "anyone" to "you (hidden)", you control who sees your posts and media items. Take a look at All about Privacy to learn more about those privacy options.
With our recent addition of Vox Groups, there are additional privacy options to keep in mind if you're adding any of your content to groups. There are 3 types of Groups: Public, Public by Invitation, and Private. As you might expect, the content added to both types of Public groups is viewable by anyone who looks at the group. In a Private group, the group content is only viewable by the other members in that group.
To illustrate how someone might use the privacy options, let's walk through a short example. Imagine that you're a closet soap opera fan. You consider the Hortons and Bradys from "Days of our Lives" to be a part of your family, but you don't really want to broadcast that little piece of information to just anyone. You've been adding daily show recaps along with your witty commentary to your blog for your own amusement, setting the posts to be viewable by "you (hidden)".
Your best friend is also a Vox member and he, of course, knows your little secret and is also a soap opera fan. He's just a little more vocal about it than you are, so when Vox Groups were added, he immediately started a Public group for all soap opera fans to talk about their favorite daily dramas. He invited you to the group, but you declined because you didn't want to share your soap opera posts with the whole world as would happen if you shared them in a Public group.
You did like the idea of sharing the posts with a few people though, and you happened to know that you weren't the only person interested in a Private soap opera group, so you created a new private group and invited the other closet soap opera fans you knew well. Now you still keep your soap opera recaps private (viewable by "you (hidden)") on your own blog, but you also add them to your private group so the other group members can read and comment on them. It's brought some interaction to your soap opera habit while still keeping it just between you and some close friends.
There are many ways you can use a Vox Group together with the privacy settings on your individual blog to reach just the audience you want to reach. Take a look at Groups and Privacy for more examples.
How are you using the privacy options with Groups?
-- Brandy and the Vox help team
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