How It Works

Shows the Member’s activities throughout the site.

Sections

• Personal – Shows your activities throughout the site. The status update form and following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
  • Select Box – Shows: Everything (default), Updates, rtMedia Updates, Polls, Status, Activity Share, Post Activity Share, New Groups, Group Memberships, Group Updates, Booking, Events, Topics, Replies, Posts, Comments, New Docs, Docs Edits, Docs Comments.
  • Status Update – visible to all logged-in members only
    • Text Area box (you can add an image, a poll, a status, a quote, or an external link)
    • Post In – Select box: Member’s Profile Page or to one of Member’s Groups
    • Post Update button
  • React button
  • Like button
  • Comment button
  • Edit button
  • Share button
  • Reply to Comment link
  • Delete button
• Mentions – Shows a list of all @mentions for you. The following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
  • Select box – Shows all options
  • Comment button
  • Reply to Comment link
• Favorites – Shows a list of all items you clicked as “Favorite”. The following buttons are visible to the members only.
  • Select box – Shows all options
  • Comment button
  • Reply to Comment link
  • Delete button
• Friends – Shows Activity Streams of your friends. The following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
  • Select box – Shows all options
  • Comment button
  • Reply to Comment link
  • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
• Groups – Shows the Activity Streams of the groups you’ve joined. The following buttons are visible to the member only.
  • Select box – Shows all options
  • Comment button
  • Reply to Comment link

As we stated above, all Bettizens members can upload an avatar, edit profile information, and customize personal account settings. 

Profiles also provide a personalized frontend dashboard for each member to view their own activity, groups, friends, and private messages, if these optional components are activated.

Notifications are a central aspect of the user experience on the Bettizens Platform. By default, new notifications are displayed in the admin bar profile menu, right next to the navigation menus.

By default, notifications are created as soon as one of the following things happen:

Activity

• A member mentions you in an update @username
• A member replies to an update or comment you’ve posted

Messages

• A member sends you a new message

Friends

• A member sends you a friendship request
• A member accepts your friendship request

Groups

• A member invites you to join a group
• Group information is updated
• You are promoted to a group administrator or moderator
• A member requests to join a private group for which you are an admin

Every user can view their read and unread notifications on their “Notifications” page on their profile and easily:

• Mark notifications as “read”
• Mark notification as “unread”
• Delete notification (in batches if needed)

Email Notifications

Users can also choose to enable or disable emails when new notifications are received. This can be done through their Settings > Email page.

Public Messages

Bettizens provides ways for you to send a message publicly to another member of the site or network. Members will be notified of public messages by a new message count in the Notifications circle in the upper Toolbar as well as receive email notifications if enabled by said member.

1. Mention the member by using the “at sign” ( @ ) + member username, e.g. @john3204. Mentioning the user can be done anywhere within the Bettizens platform:
   • Status Update form in the News Feed page, Group Activity page, or on your own profile page
   • Activity Stream Comment and/or Reply form
   • Forum Topic Post or Reply Post 
2. Click on the Public Message button located below or beside the member’s avatar on his/her profile page. That brings you to your own Activity Status Update form with that member’s username already mentioned. Add your message and click on the Post Update button.

Private Messages

Private Messaging works like an internal platform email. Members can message people on their friends’ list as well as reply to received messages. Each member will have their own individual Inbox and Sent messages folders, as well as a, Compose message screen. Members will be notified of new messages by a new message count in their own Messages tab, in the notification circle in the toolbar, as well as receive email notifications of the private message, if enabled.

Private Message Screens

• Inbox – Shows the list of Private Message/s sent to you by members of the site. Visible to the logged-in member only. Options
  • Search Messages
  • Read Message
  • Delete Message
  • Bulk Delete Messages – Select Read, Unread, or All Messages
• Sent – Shows the list of Message/s you have sent to other members of the site. Visible to the logged-in member only. Options
  • Search Sent Messages
  • Read Sent Message
  • Delete Sent Message
  • Bulk Delete Sent Messages – Select Read, Unread, or All Messages
• Compose – This shows a form to send messages. Visible to logged-in members only. Input
  • Send To (Username or Friend’s Name) field
  • Subject field
  • Message field
  • Send Message button

How to Send a Private Message

Via member’s Private Message button

1. Go to the member’s profile page
2. Click on the Private Message button in the member’s header area and you will be redirected to your Messages > Compose screen
3. Member’s username is already entered as the addressee
4. Enter the Title of your message
5. Enter the content of your message
6. Click on the Send Message button
7. The logged-in member will be notified about the message via a Notification alert in the Toolbar and via email if enabled.

Via your Account navigation in Admin Toolbar

1. Hover over your account Messages > click on Compose and you will be redirected to your Messages > Compose screen
2. Enter the username or the display name of your friend
3. Enter the Title of your message
4. Enter the content of your message
5. Click on the Send Message button
6. The logged-in member will be notified about the message via a Notification alert in the Toolbar and via email if enabled.

Bettizens’s Friends component is a way for our members to identify that they know other members. Friendship is requested from one member and accepted by another. The Friends feature works best when other components are active:

Once the Activity Stream component is active, these relationships are logged to both members’ activity streams, allowing anyone to see the relationships other community members have made.

With the Groups component active, it allows members to invite their friends to join groups they are members of.

When the Settings component is active, members can choose to turn off new friendship notification emails.

One common use case is to help identify which members of your community have met in person. Using the Friends component as a way to say “we’ve bowled together” or “I met you at a meeting against Big Money in Politics” is a great way for our members to keep track of everyone they’ve bumped into in the past.

At Bettizens we don’t put a cap on the number of friends each member can have, but we also don’t encourage having a lot of friends just for the sake of saying we have a lot of friends. When you ask someone for a friendship or when you accept someone’s friend request, let it be because both of you can do something for each other and for the causes we defend.

Groups in Bettizens are gatherings of members, posts, and any other user-generated content.

Any member can create Groups, but we limit the number so as not to fall into the same dispersion as other social networks. Each group must have a purpose, and meaning, and be useful to its current and future members.

Group administrators (who created the group) can also approve requests to join the private group, invite friends to congregate within a hidden group, establish communications among members, extend privileges to other members, and enable new features (such as Group Forums if enabled by Super Admin) among others.

This one is simple. You can see who’s viewed your profile in the last 7 days, 30 days, 1 year, and all time. This way you may know your profile’s popularity and even ask your visitors to accept your friendship.

This section is very important to us. It allows Bettizens members to add tasks to their to-do list and allows them to ‘edit’, ‘delete’, ‘mark-complete’ their tasks. Members can create the category for to-do and add to-dos according to category wise.

It also has a due date reminder feature which reminds the user that their due date has arrived and sends an email or Bettizens notification to the user. And, the user can export all to-do tasks in a CSV format.

You can add your own category (+) or you can choose any of the 12 categories universally recognized as the most important for personal organization:

Business Important & Urgent
Business Important Not Urgent
Business Not Important But Urgent
Business Not Important Not Urgent
General Important & Urgent
General Important Not Urgent
General Not Important But Urgent
General Not Important Not Urgent
Personal Important & Urgent
Personal Important Not Urgent
Personal Not Important But Urgent
Personal Not Important Not Urgent

You can select the task completion date and priority order (Critical, High, Normal).

The same works for groups that you have created.

This feature allows only Bettizens members to add reviews to other Bettizens members. But the member can not review itself. And if the visitor is not logged in, he can only see the listing of the reviews but can not review. The review form allows the members to even rate the member’s profile out of 5 points with multiple review criteria.

To add a Review, first, go to Members and click on the Member you want to review. Then in the Icon Menu which is between the two arrows (to go left or right) find the star symbol and click on it.

Then it only remains to click on “Add Review” and select an option from 1 to 5 in each of the 4 available criteria.

When you click on “Invitations” you will see two buttons:

Send Invites: you just need to fill out the form below to invite a new user to join this site. Upon submission of the form, an email will be sent to the invitee containing a link to accept your invitation. You may also add a custom message to the email.

Pending Invites: these are the ones you must accept or reject when someone invites you to a Group.

At Bettizens we see the Forums as a fundamental tool of the Platform. Unlike what happens in traditional social networks, where it is difficult to follow up on a topic or topic, we use the forums to carry out very specific discussions on topics and sub-topics that require clarification, and coordination or can become plans of action.

In our Forums, the most important thing is the individual contribution of each member to the purpose of the group linked to that specific Forum and to the knowledge or collective action in each case.

And please remember one of the 5 main rules of Bettizens: EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE, therefore, in each Forum, and in each Debate within each Forum, only what is directly related to that specific topic can be published.

The Events Section is still UNDER DEVELOPMENT, but it will allow you to view events created by others and decide whether or not to attend, create events, and view events you have created yourself.

The Form to create an event is very easy and intuitive and will allow you to create and manage your event in a matter of a few minutes. ¡Remember, it’s COMING SOON!

Bettizens Docs features add a collaborative workspace (document service) for our community. Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, think of this section as a modest Bettizens version of the Docs service offered by Google.

Bettizens Docs include:

* Docs that can be linked to groups or users, with a variety of privacy levels
* Support for fully-private document uploads
* Doc taxonomy, using tags
* Fully sortable and filterable doc lists
* Front-end doc editing
* One-editor-at-a-time prevention against overwrites, plus idle detection/autosave
* Full access to the revision history

When you access this section you will see 3 tabs:

* Started by Me: All documents that you have created yourself.
* Edited by Me: Documents created by others, in whose edition you have participated.
* Create New Doc: to create a new one you need to fill in the following fields:
  * *Title
  * * Content
  * * Attachments
  * * Associated Group
 * * Who can edit this doc? (Logged-in users or The Doc Author only)
 * * Who can read comments on this doc? (Anyone, Logged-in users, The Doc Author only)
 * * Who can post comments on this doc? (Logged-in users or The Doc Author only)
 * * Who can view the history of this document? (Anyone, Logged-in users, The Doc Author only)
 * * Tags
 * * Parent for this Document

It’s just your Media Gallery: Albums, Photos, Videos, and Music.

It’s easy and useful to organize your files in albums. 

A logged-in Bettizens member has access to his/her own Settings page where various options can be configured. This can be accessed by clicking the User Menu in the top-right-hand corner and clicking on the “Settings” link.

The following is a list of subpages available in the Settings area by default:

General: change your account email and password

Email (Set your email notification preferences: Yes o No)

Profile Visibility (Select who may see your profile details: Everyone, Only Me, All Members, My Friends)

Group Invites (you can restrict Group invites to your friends only)

Export Data (you can request an export of your personal data)

Blocked Members (a list of members you currently block).