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Can I Receive Private Messages by Email?

I received an excellent question earlier today and wanted to share with everyone:

"Is there a way to tell Freeople.com to email me whenever I receive a private message? I have this feature on Facebook and it's extraordinarily helpful."

How Do I Earn Points?

I've had a couple of people ask what types of contributions earn points and how much do they earn for different activities.

So to help provide more information, here's the list of what can be done on the site and the points you will earn for each activity.

 

How Do I Maintain My Profile?

This is the sixth in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on the type of information you can share with others on the site through your profile, how to edit various profile information, and how this information is presented on the site through Google Maps.

Other videos in the series are as follows:

How Do I Promote My Candidacy?

This is the fifth in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on what a candidate for office can do on the Freeople website to promote his or her candidacy, including a candidate profile, forum, group and donation collection.

Other videos in the series are as follows:

How Do I Post Calendar Events & Raise Money?

This is the fourth in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on how to create calendar events which will be displayed on the Freeople Calendar and Google Maps. Also included are the steps for creating a donation event to raise funds for a group activity or cause.

Other videos in the series are as follows:

How Do I Create Group Posts?

This is the third in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on how group members, administrators and owners can post content into their groups. While not mentioned in the video, Group Posts are the one type of content in the site which can have file attachments. Therefore if you need to attach a Word document or PDF file for others to read on a Group Post, you can certainly do so.

Other videos in the series are as follows:

How Do I Administer My Group?

This is the second in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on the ways in which a group owner or administrator can administer a Freeople group. Other videos in the series are as follows:

How Do I Create a Group on Freeople?

If you're interested in creating a group on Freeople, I'd recommend watching the following video we created.

Also below are links to the entire series of videos we made. I'd suggest watching them to learn more about how to use the Freeople website:

How to Post Videos

Many of you may be curious to know how to post YouTube or Google videos into your blog entries or forum posts.

To ensure the security and safety of the site, it is not possible to use the "embed" code YouTube provides in the upper right corner of a video page. Instead, it is necessary to use the approach described in the "Input format" section right below the entry field where you type your content.