bighow: world's best tool for local journalism. use it to publish and share anything
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This is presentation about how to to use Bighow, the free, multipurpose publishing and sharing tool that allows users to share items about their interests and locality.TRANSCRIPT
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http://bighow.com
The best way to share a lot of things online.
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Sharing and Publishing on Bighow is easy.
Click the 'Publish' link on top right and you are given a choice of things you can share: News, Classifieds or listings.
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Fill data
Give a snappy title, add some tags that describe your items, write a few lines in the main text box and click 'go'.
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Find your links easily
You can even edit or delete your posts
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Bookmark your Bighow Blog
URL for any user blog is http://bighow.com/username You can follow a user by clicking on “Follow” lick on right column once you are logged in.
Get updates on the user’s posting by subscribing to the user’s RSS feed.
Did you know? You can get RSS feeds for virtually anything on Bighow – by, user, city, country, locality, groups, categories, search results, tags, sub-
categories…the link to subscribe is always on the right hand side.
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Browse Bighow by Categories, Tags and Location
Use the navigation always available on top.
To browse categories, click the link below any item.
Examples: http://bighow.com/news, http://bighow.com/poll, http://bighow.com/links
Did you know: 1. If you like any post on bighow, you can click on the ‘save’ icon beside the item to save it for future reference.
2. If you find any item on Bighow objectionable, use the ‘Flag’ function at the bottom to inform us.
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Browse Information from your Locality
Choose a country from the tag cloud.
To browse information from cities, http://bighow.com/city, choose a city from the tag cloud. To browse information from localities http://bighow.com/local, choose a locality from the tag cloud.
To browse information from groups, http://bighow.com/groups, choose a group from the list.
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Browse bighow by tags
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Browse Groups
We have a very simple Group system. Anyone can create group for any keyword on bighow.
Anyone can join and the group page is updated every time a post for that topic is made anywhere on Bighow. Get a RSS feed to that group to keep yourself informed.
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Publish links from Bighow on your site.
Use the Widgets link on the footer, choose what you want to publish, get the javascript, paste it on your site's code, wherever you want it to
display.
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Get Alerts from Bighow in E-mail