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Sunday, 2 October 2011

Can anyone technical shine some light on this please...Anyone?!?

These symbols:


are at the bottom of each post but i wondered what "click here to publicly +1 this as Phil Carroll" means. Is it not already public being a Blog. Also the "F, T M" are relatively self explanatory but whats the purpose of the "B" again is this not already Blogged, and if clicked where does it "Blog this" to?

5 comments:

  1. Hi Phil - I'd never call myself technical, but I clicked on the BlogThis! button at the end of your post and it opened up a new window to create a post on my blog, with the post info inside the text area. I'd say it's just a tool to post a post from someone else's blog/site into your blog, while still crediting them (The title came up automatically as 'Phil Carroll:Can anyone technical...')

    On the +1 issue, not sure. Could it be a 'like' setting, such as facebook has and the more +'s received is a measure of how popular the post is? The BBC website uses something similar on its comments for news articles.

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  2. Nothing like randomly pressing on things to find out - clicking +1 opens a new window with

    '+1 is an easy way to recommend things to the world
    Your profile and +1's appear publicly in search results, on ads and across the web.'

    and a message asking you to confirm that you have recommended this post as your user profile.

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  3. You are an angel Aicha. It always sounds so simple when Someone explains it as simply as you did. I am always nervous of pressing stuff and either not being able to reverse the action or more honestly of finding a whole new world of stuff I don't know but should. Thank you for taking the time to help and to reply to my post. I shall experiment with the blog this button definitely.
    Stay safe-Phil

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  4. Hi Phil
    I have trouble with the technicals too. I have found some youtube vids helpful. Like you I'm a little apprehensive to just press buttons and add things that I can't delete. Pressing the wrong buttons has got me into trouble in the past!!Hehe! Well, I've done something unintentional that sends latest blog comments to my email address/blackberry. Don't think it's necessary for me but no harm done. I like your strong blog page colours, it shows you mean business. Your posts are very clear to read but I have a feeling you will be playing around with your page..

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  5. As Aicha very rightly says above though "Nothing like randomly pressing on things to find out - clicking +1 opens a new window with". As this course says it's all about trying to find out by yourself. I really should have played around with the buttons a bit more.
    Come on Corinda lets be brave and just "press the buttons" and see what trouble we can get into.

    Hope to see you on the 4th

    Stay safe - Phil

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