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Community Networks tool is a social-networking tool for film-makers and performers in Boston. It's objective is to accelerate the formation of collaborations and advancement of Beanywood members. The system ONLY become activated after you have registered.
It has multiple sections, and the best way to get a sense of how it works is to explore it, the way you'd explore a toy or an enjoyable piece of software. But it helps at times to have a laid out document that explains each piece. If there's anything that is unclear please feel free to ask in the Forum. What you ask probably puzzles a few others and will probably find its way to this document.
Major tools:
Display members:
Very useful function. Display all the members of the site, and soon you'll be able to selectively display on the basis of vocation, experience level, location, etc. This is helpful for the obvious reasons.
Submiting News and Blog entries:
To submit, click on either "Submit News" or "Write a blog entry" (user menu on left-bottom of screen, or under Community Networks on top menu). , Then you'll see a wordpad like editor open up. There's a wide variety of functions, and they're all intuitive. The only that is not is that before you finish you need to click on the bottom tab that says "Publishing" and in the drop-down menu titled "State" select "Published." Then click on the disk icon and you're set to go. You can also attach images and/or streaming media (quicktime, windows media files). When you wish to edit any news /blog entry you have previously written simply click on the notepad icon next to the title of the news/blog entry.
Connections:
In a business where "who you know" is the gatekeeper of success, this should be your favorite location on the site. Now, if you don't have any talent, no gatekeeper is going to help you. :) So on second thought may you should pay no attention to this part of the site. ;) The way it works is that when you visit the profile of someone you have already connected in real life, or wish to connect virtually, go the top box that says "Connections" and select "Request Connection." Just like in other social networking tools, the other person will receive a request for a connection. The rest is intuitive.
Profile Book (Comments and Recommendations):
Once you have your past colleagues and friends in the Connections system, it's really nice to pay a comment on them. To do this, click on the bottom tap in their Profile titled "Profile Book" then click on "Sign Profile Book" and follow the instructions. In this site, these comments can of cousre be fun and and ecclectic, but it's helpful professionally to hear what other people thought of working with this particular person. This is how reputation building is done, and how others will be able to seek you out because of the great experience several other people had working with you.
Gallery:
When you're seeing your own profile, click on "CB Gallery" on the bottom pane and follow the instructions. Useful for multiple headshots for actors, as well as for movie scenes and posters for film-makers.
Profile and maintenance tools:
Upload your portrait:
Available in the Edit box when viewing your own profile. This is your face on the site. I hope you also don't lack one in real life. :)
View/edit your profile:
In "View Your Profile," this is where you see how your profile appears to others. You can also use this screen to accept connection requests from others, edit your profile, upload portrait and gallery images, look at your comment box, and several other options. In "Edit your profile," you are able to both change your contact, personal and professional information, as well as determine the configuration options associated with Profile Book and the Gallery.
Blog and Articles:
Blog displays your blog entries, and Articles displays everything (news, FAQs, highlights, and so on) you have written on the site.
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