New Notifications -- Private Messaging

*UPDATED: 3.10.2010 11:40 p.m. -- A change on Twitter * /We had a couple of complaints by folks regarding the setup for Twitter. It defaulted to posting to twitter.com/ywpvt and folks following it say they were being deluged with references to all your posts. While they just stopped following ywpvt, that was not the purpose -- we want you to get more readership from this./ So, for the moment, we've disconnnected the global account. We'll continue to manually highlight great work, until we adapt the module. HOWEVER, if you have a Twitter account, you can post links to your work on your Twitter account. Here's how: Go to "My Account," click "Edit" tab and then click "Twitter Accounts" tab. Put in your info about your account. (You can then choose to have your Twitter posts come into your space for others to read.) Then when you create a blog post, you'll see an option to post an announcement about your blog post on your Twitter account. Check the box for yay, uncheck the box for nay. More below on the other changes. youngwritersproject.org has rolled out a new notifications and messaging system. /Finally./ We are bringing it out in stages. The first is now ready to go: * *Subscribing.* You may now subscribe to individual posts, ALL posts of a particular content type or ALL posts of a particular author. You can also subscribe to comments on an individual post. You can set it up to receive the notification via email or private message. And when their is a post or a comment on what you've subscribed to you will receive an email or private message about that new content. You can do this right on the content you're interested in. You can set the subscribe settings for your own post when you create it in the submit form. * *Edit subscriptions.* You can also set and change your notifications/subscriptions by going to "My Account" and clicking the "Notifications" tab. You can set your notifications to be "immediate" or at regular intervals. This is where you can do some global editing of your subscription settings. * *Private messaging.*You can subscribe to notifications to go to your email or to the /new/ private message system on this site. To write or read a message, go to *"Messages"* in the navigation sidebar on the left. /And so you understand, you can now send each other private messages./ This feature *is a major change for how we communicate on this site. *I confess to being slightly nervous about it. My primary concern is that it'll cut down on instructive, public commenting on the writing. Sometimes, though a private message to complement some feedback is worthwhile. We do think there is a place for private messaging but we'll see how it goes. Remember the purpose of the site: To improve our writing. * *Contact form.*You will also see that you can also contact each other by email. BE AWARE. The person SENDING the email cannot see /your/ email address but when you send a message to someone with the contact form YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS REVEALED; and if you send back a response, it CONTAINS your email address so, show some care in using this. * *Twitter.*Headlines of your posts will now be posted, by default, on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ywpvt If you have a Twitter account, you can post to it, here's how: Go to "My Account" click "Edit" click "Twitter Account" tab, add your personal Twitter account. (You can even import it to the site if you'd like.) Save. When you post, with "post to Twitter" box, you will see a drop down box that allows you to choose your personal Twitter account OR you can choose the ywpvt Twitter account or you can uncheck the box altogether. Please feel free to post to the Twitter account at ywpvt, though. And tell your friends about it, too. Get them to follow http:/twitter.com/ywpvt . Over time, this will bring you more readers! * *Contact us.* We are going to be developing new things in the future, but we thought these might help to keep you connected to what's happening on the site. Let me know what you think -- use the new "Contact Us" form on the left sidebar or comment below. Or send me a private message. cheers gg