5 posts tagged “privacy”
In a recent Question of the Day we asked you how many times you re-edit your posts, and many of you confessed that you often go back a time or three to fix typos, strangely worded titles, or other errors (surely caused by those gremlins that sneak in after you hit the "Save" button). Most of us on Team Vox go back and re-edit all the time too, which is part of the reason why we offer editing options right on your blog.
Here are a few ways you can edit right from your blog:
- When you're viewing your blog, you'll notice a lock icon with the privacy level of each post listed next to it. Click that area to change the privacy level at any time. If you notice you posted about your mother's surprise birthday party to the "friends and family" privacy level, it's a quick switch to put it back to the proper "friends" level so that your secrets (at least this one) are safe from Mom. To learn more about privacy on Vox, take a look at All About Privacy.
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Typos can be quite confusing, especially when your readers start commenting on your "clam"-digging adventures when you really meant to say it was the "calm before the storm". Take care of those typos by clicking "Edit" beneath your post's title.
- In case it slips your mind, we've made it easy for you to add a post to a Vox Group after it's posted to your blog. Just click "Add to group" to bring up a list of all the groups to which you belong so that you can add the post. You don't want your book group to miss your latest theories as you reread the Harry Potter series!
- You'll find editing options as you're viewing individual details pages for each post and media item as well. From there, you can edit the title of any item by clicking on it - it will change it into a text box for editing. You can also add descriptions to your media items from the detail page.
We've covered just a few of the major editing options here, and you can find out about these and others in Editing from the Blog.
Don't let the gremlins keep you down!
-- Brandy and the Vox Help Team
We know that Voxers value their privacy, but that you're looking for ways to discover new neighbors and interesting content that are publicly-accessible on the site, too. As we add new features and keep making changes to the site, we’re trying to balance those needs along the way. It’s kinda tricky! Here are some examples.
Private messages in Vox are just that, private. So we’ve been thinking that the right way to keep them private is to keep them inside Vox. Today we're making a change to the email notifications you receive when someone sends you a private message on Vox, which means we're going to ask you to log in to read your private messages. It’s a simple change, but it seems to make more sense and has the added side-benefit of letting you compose replies right from where you read the message.
On the flip side,
we’re making some slight changes to your comment emails, too. We're adding in a
link to the commenter's latest entry, as well as a link to answer the Question
of the Day. This is where that public discovery thing comes in -- those links
are meant to give you more opportunities and inspiration to go read and
post.
There are more discovery and exploration features being launched all over Vox. In our last release, we added in links to previous and next posts when you're viewing individual posts. So if you're enjoying the post you just read, those links will let you scan and see what other posts you might like to read from that Voxer.
One of the most
consistent bits of feedback we get is that Voxers want
more and better ways to click around and explore the site, and that’s exactly
what these changes are meant to provide. Let us know what you think! We want to
get all of your feedback on the new features, as well as your suggestions for
how to keep improving in the future.
- Krissy
Did you catch Vox in last Sunday's New York Times?
Anne Eisenberg wrote a piece entitled "So, Who Says That a Blog Has to Blare?" about privacy in blogging, and Vox was the focus of the story. Read the full article here.
Voxers BT and Bryn Greenwood were interviewed for the article. BT was quoted as saying:
“The privacy function is very important,” he said. “I don’t want anyone but my friends and family to see pictures of my kids on the Web.” Mr. Tenderich sends pictures to his blog directly from his cellphone, a practice called moblogging. And he recently started experimenting with video additions. “This weekend I posted my first video clip,” he said. “When I came into work on Monday, there was an e-mail from my dad in Germany, who had viewed and liked it.”
Thanks to Anne, BT and Bryn for helping spread the word about Vox!
We also saw some kind words about Vox over on Ask MetaFilter earlier this week. MetaFilter user stuehler posited the question:
Several people wrote in recommending Vox. Thanks everyone!"My wife and I are expecting our first child soon, and I've been looking for a site that would allow us to post photographs, videoclips, maybe a journal/blog, etc., and then allow family members/friends to log-in and view them. Has anyone used such a site they'd recommend strongly?"
We love to hear success stories about Voxers using their friends and family filters to share their precious content with the people they love. Read All About Privacy for more information on using privacy filters on Vox.
-- Krissy
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
One of the many great features on Vox is the privacy control available to you! Vox gives you the control to decide who can read your posts or see your other media items.
Let's take a quick look at the privacy levels available to Vox members. At one end of the spectrum, you can make your post or item public so that anyone who visits Vox can see it. At the other end, you can choose to make something a draft so that it only shows to you. In between, you have three options: your friends and family, just your friends, or just your family. Take a look at All About Privacy to learn more about privacy control on Vox.
Whenever you're adding a new post or item to your library, you can easily select the privacy setting you want from a drop down box listing all the privacy options.
So what do these privacy options really mean for Vox members? Maybe you want to talk about that great date you had last week without your parents asking a lot of questions you don't want to answer. Put your parents in your family group and give your friends the scoop in a post to your friends group.
Want to show off some pictures of the newest baby in your family without
So when your friends and family visit your blog, they'll want to be sure they are signed in to their account so they can see everything they have permission to view. If they don't have an account yet, make sure they sign up! Having more of your friends and family involved in Vox makes sharing your posts and items even more fun.
Many of you have already been taking advantage of the privacy control that Vox gives to members. Who out there has created a blog on Vox because you get to choose who sees what? Tell us your story in the comments.
