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Welcome to Mysittingbourne.co.uk
If you have just tried to register at MYsittingbourne, you have been sent to this page deliberately. We have had to de-activate the automatic on-line registration due to spammer / cyber-attacks. This is now a common problem experienced by online forum websites. Therefore, to register, please send an email to Justin Jones at JC-J.NET. Request to be registered and indicate your preferred username. He will register you and send you an email with your registration details: click here to go to Justin's email contact page at JC-J.NET. This helps us to maintain a high quality service by ensuring that only legitimate people join the site. Thank you!
Mysittingbourne.co.uk is for people in and around Sittingbourne, Kent. It is a new site that uses powerful but user-friendly software to enable people to connect and access local knowledge and information about Sittingbourne. This local information comes from the people themselves who are actively communicating on the site. If you are local, you are welcome to join up and invite your friends. And, if you are simply interested in Sittingbourne, join up and join in.
This is a free service provided by www.JC-J.net. As such, it gives local people the opportunity to promote their business or local community club free-of-charge! Many other sites charge high fees, so take advantage of this free service and don't miss out.
For further information, please contact Justin Jones at www.JC-J.net.
Information on facilities provided by this site
Activity
It provides a comprehensive activity stream which provides an at-a-glance look at activity from across the site, as well as your friends' activity and your own actions. You can filter the activity stream to only include particular tools or types of action, making this a powerful addition to the social network.
Optionally, the activity stream can be the first port of call for users logging into the site - or you can use it alongside it's widget-based dashboard. Users will be presented with the site's newest members and can post directly to the wire.
Profiles
It comes with a set of default profile fields which can be extended or completely changed by the site administrator. Using it's powerful widget framework, users can select from a bank of available widgets to create a full and rich profile. A profile acts as a great overview of a site member, pulling together their activity from the site, as well as from external sources.
Notifications
You can keep track of what your friends are doing through the notification method of your choice. Choose whose activity you want to subscribe to, and have it delivered using the notification method of your choice. Email and internal messaging are supported.
Groups
Users can create groups around a particular topic and take advantage of a collaborative group discussion area, group files and group pages. You can create open groups that anyone can join, and closed groups, where membership is requested first and accepted or denied by the group owner.
Blogs
It has a blogging tool with some useful added features:
- Save a draft (with autosave)
- Categories
- Conversation toggle
- Preview
- Rich media embedding (see below)
Embed media
The media embed feature allows users to easily include their photos, audio snippets and files within blog posts, pages, comments, discussion topic and profile fields. The modal window allows users to upload resources and get access to the files they need while constructing their content.
Files
It comes equipped with a full file repository that will handle a wide variety of data including photos, word documents, audio files, videos, PDFs and more. You can easily flip between lists of files and image galleries, in order to comfortably find the item you're looking for. Users can display their latest files on their profile and - using the media embed tool - embed any file into their content.
The Wire
The wire brings microblogging to the core of the system - like having your own personal Twitter service. Users can post to the wire via the site. You can push wire posts out to Twitter so the users can localise usage while still taking advantage of their Twitter account.
Pages
The pages facility allows you to save and store hierarchically-organised pages of text, and control who can read and write to them. This means that you can collaboratively create a set of documents with a loose collection of people, participate in a writing process with a formal group, or simply use the functionality to write a document that only you can see, and only choose to share it once it's done.
Dashboard
It has a flexible user dashboard, which can be replaced by the activity view if required. The dashboard acts as a user's personal portal to the site, displaying information - both from the site and external sources - that they select.
Social bookmarking
It provides users with a simple social bookmarking tool. Using a button that users can place on their browser toolbar, it is easy to bookmark and share resources from all over the web.
Categories
The site administrator can set site-wide categories. These categories are then available for users to use when creating a new blog post, uploading files or constructing pages. A great way to provide some loose structure.
Access
It has powerful, granular, access controls for users. Users can restrict their content to be only read by people they mark as a friend from any tool in the site. There is also a user-defined default setting that will apply to all their content.
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