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Share Volentia content and post your Volentia status updates to Facebook directly

Monday, March 8th, 2010

One of the great tools built-in to Volentia is the ability to share Volentia content with other social platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

You can share Volentia content – like a photo, video, event, blog, a discussion or even post your status updates to Facebook directly from Volentia.

The first time that you are posting to your Facebook account, you will be asked to connect to your Facebook account. Although your Facebook account information is required to connect to Facebook, it will not appear anywhere on Volentia.

After entering your Facebook username and password, Facebook will ask if you want to allow Volentia to publish your posts. Click on the Allow Publishing button to continue.

Sharing content on Facebook directly

Once you have connected to Facebook, you can post content to Facebook by clicking the Facebook link displayed on any content detail page.

You can add a personal message to the post before publishing it.

Your post will then be displayed on your Facebook Wall, News Feed and your friends’ News Feeds.

Since Volentia is a private network (members have to log in to see content), you are able to share content, but your post will not include thumbnails or descriptions of the content.

Sharing new content you’ve added on Volentia

When you are adding new content on Volentia, you can also share the content on Facebook. Check the box next to the Facebook icon and add a personal note or use the default one that’s already there.

Posting your status update to Facebook

To post a status update from your Volentia profile page to Facebook, check the box next to the Facebook icon below the Status Update bar. Click Update to post your status.

If you decide to use a different Facebook account to connect to or remove your current Facebook account, head over to My Settings page by clicking on the Settings link and then click on the Connections link. Click on the “Connect as a different user” link and you will be signed out of your current Facebook account.

To connect to a different Facebook account, click on the Connect with Facebook button. If you do not want to Connect to Facebook for the moment, click on the Cancel button.

The next time you want to share content or post a Status Update to Facebook, you will be asked to connect to your Facebook account again.

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Add a video to your favorites

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

If you find a video you like and you want to make sure you can find it again later, you can add that video to your favorites.

The list of videos you have added as favorites can be reached from any page on the Videos tab. Just click the “My Favorites” link.

To add a video to your favorites so you can find it again later, click the “Favorite” link below the video on the video’s detail page.

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Rate videos on Volentia

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Let people know what you think of a video by rating it. To rate a video, head to the video detail page and locate the “Rate” section underneath the video on the right side. You can rate the video out of five stars.

To give the video a rating, simply click on the number of stars you think it should receive. Your rating will then be reflected in the average to the left. Don’t worry! Your rating remains anonymous, so you can be honest. If you change your mind, you can always return to the video detail page and click the stars to change your rating for the video.

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How to add videos to Volentia

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Many of the videos that you might want to share/upload are already available on services like Youtube. It is easy to embed videos and share them on Volentia.

It is a good idea to have an account with one of the major video sharing services if you have your own videos that you want to share with the world.

Adding videos to Volentia from video services; YouTube, Hulu and Vimeo allow video sharing by embedding HTML code. From the “Add Videos” page, scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the section that says “Add videos from YouTube, Hulu, or Vimeo.” Click the logos or the “… or embed videos from other services” link.

Next, copy the HTML embed code from the YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, or another video sharing service that you’d like to add to Volentia, and paste it into the box.

Next, you can add a Title, Description, and Tags for each video. When you’re done, click “Save” if you’ve added more information. You can also click “My Videos” to immediately start browsing your newly uploaded videos.

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