Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions about netboard.me
You can always contact us via support@netboard.me to get more information on any question about our site.
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Frequently asked questions
General Questions
Netboard is a world wide accessible web page where you can easily gather videos, photos, RSS feeds, presentations, links and many more things from the web. Netboard is the best way to combine and share different web content.
There is no limit for that.
We don't have such plans
Yes
Your netboard is totally your own web space. You can put everything unless it violates the Terms of Service.
Complaint is a way to notify administrators about netboards that violate Terms of the Services.
Please describe it using Feedback widget (Contact Support) at your personal page or just email us about the problem (support@netboard.me).
We will try to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Your feedback about features you want is very important for us.
Email us about it (support@netboard.me) and we will try to add it.
In the European Union
Your data is stored and processed in Germany (Frankfurt).
Towermates OÜ (Estonia, European Union)
Sepapaja 6, Tallinn 15551
No
We do not sell or share user data.
Yes
We use Google Analytics to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages were looked at, for how long, etc.
The data we sent is completely impersonal - we have no ability to bind it with concrete user or track user behavior. The data is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, IP address etc.
This information is important to us for improving the user experience and determining site effectiveness.
Access Control
Any person in the web.
If you are Personal account or Organization account owner:
No. No one else can see your private netboard.
If you are Organization Supervisor:
Yes. Your Organization account owner can access it.
If you are Organization user without Supervisor role:
Yes. Your Organization Supervisors can access it.
Yes
You can select friends who can see your private netboard at your personal page using "Who can see this netboard" action. Also, you can do it in the netboard menu using "Grant access" option.
You can share a netboard access link with someone without a netboard.me account.
It will allow them to collaborate on your netboard.
You can generate a Read link to allow them to see and comment on your private netboard.
You can provide an Edit link to allow them to edit your netboard with the same privileges as a registered co- author. Both links work with private and public netboards.
Netboard Editing
Yes
Just drag the post to the target tab name and its content will be shown.
Yes
Just drag and drop the tab while your netboard is in Edit mode.
Immediately after you save them.
Yes.
Just post the link, which Google suggests you for the document sharing.
Yes.
You can use tags to quickly filter posts on the netboard (e.g. #level1 or #level2). Just start any word with "#" to create a tag.
Mosaic alignment makes your netboards fancier and more compact
We have recorded a short video to demonstrate the difference between default and mosaic alignments.
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By the default netboard.me tries to fill empty space to make the board to look as a fancy Web Page.
Sometimes strict posts order is required. For this case you can use Ordered or Notes alignment.
The difference between them is height equalization which is not performed with Notes alignment.
To switch an alignment you need to enable Edit mode, open Customize tab, select main netboard area for customization and chose an option from alignments menu.
Trophy score is calculated automatically basing on the type and amount of content, number of followers and votes.
Higher trophy score affects search results rank and netboard position in the Top rated list of the Organization Explore page.
Yes. We have plugins for Google Chrome and Firefox.
They work via context menu once installed.
Click right mouse button on the content you want to post (link, image, selected text, free space on the page to post a link to this page, etc.) and select Post to netboard from the appeared context menu.
Co-authoring
By the default co-author has limited ability to edit your netboard.
He/she can make new posts and delete previously added posts.
You can give more options to co-authors (customizie netboard theme/layout and/or edit other users content) on the netboard's settings screen.
Yes
Co-author will gain access automatically.
When you switch your account type to Organization you get an ability to register own users and create users groups.
No
It's free just like personal.
In your Settings
You should open Account tab of the setting screen.
Yes
Email address is optional for users created within Organization.
A user who has never logged in is marked as inactive.
After the first successful login the user is marked as "Active".
Only users of yours and friendly Organizations
In case the user has the Supervisor role, her/his followers can also collaborate with her/him.
Internal netboards are accessible only by users within your organization.
You can allow the access for friendly organizations, giving the Internal trust level to your friendship.
Internal netboards can also be shared, just like Private netboards, to open access for specific users or groups.
Owners can establish friendships between their accounts.
Friendship allows users of friendly organizations to collaborate (share, follow, vote, comment, etc.) and to access each other.
Once Friendship is established, it's possible to create common groups with users of the friendly organization.
Users of the friendly organization with "Internal" trust level can access your organization internal netboards.
Only account owner can request a friendship of another account.
You should click "Friendship Request" button on the profile page of the owner of another account.
No
Only two Organization accounts can establish a friendship.
In your Settings
You should open Friendship tab of the setting screen.
Once you publish a netboard to the group it creates or updates Group Library.
Group members see published netboards in the Library section and receive updates on these netboards changes.
Currently we support following user roles:
Regular User - can't publish content to the Web and her/his profile is accessible only by users from the same or friendly Organization.
With Web Access - users with this role can publish content to the Web and create access links to own netboards. Users profile are open, but only users of yours and friendly Organization can collaborate with them.
Supervisor - has almost the same rights as an account owner. Supervisor can't create or edit other supervisors but can create and manage other users and groups. Supervisor profile is open and her/his followers can collaborate with her/him.
There are two possible reasons:
The netboard is private or does not have enough content to be shown.
There is a rating (see Trophy score question) threshold which is used to prevent empty and incomplete pages from being displayed.
Post a video
- Switch your netboard to the Edit mode by clicking Edit button in the top menu.
- Enter video URL in the "Post any link" field and press Post button.
Example of the video URL from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXi_9A__Vc - Click Save button in the top menu to apply your netboard changes.
- Click on just saved video post to make video player appear.