User Guide Contents

Accounts & Affiliations

Bookmarks

Comments

Documents

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Contribute

Courses

Discussion Boards

Friends

Groups

My WebJunction

Recommendations

RSS

Search

Tagging

Webinars

Bookmarking Pages

You can bookmark pages on WebJunction to make them easy to find again in the future. Bookmarked pages are saved and accessed at the top of your My WebJunction page. If you choose to share your bookmarks with other members, they will display at the bottom of your Public Profile page.

1. Find the page that you wish to bookmark.

2. Look for the Bookmark icon at the bottom of the page, just above the footer.

bookmark portlet

2. Click the Bookmark icon to add a link to this page to your Bookmark list on your My WebJunction page.

3. The title of the page will appear in the popup box. Modify the title if you wish, then click Ok. Click Close to return to your page.

Give your bookmark a name

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Managing Bookmarks

You can manage your bookmarked pages by editing the name of the bookmark or deleting a bookmark.

1. Locate the Bookmarks area on your My WebJunction page to view your bookmarked pages.
 

My Bookmarks portlet

2. Click on the pencil icon (Edit) to the right of the bookmark name to edit the name of your bookmarks. Click on the trashcan icon (Delete) to remove the bookmark from your list. You should not use the Permissions icon (in the middle); it is nonfunctional.

You can also manage your bookmarks as you create them, by clicking on the Manage WJ Bookmarks button.

Manage your bookmarks

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Comment on a Friend's or Member's Profile

The Comment feature allows you to comment on a friend’s Public Profile and on documents or courses. Commenting allows you to create your own personal discussion board on your profile and contribute to conversations on your friends’ profiles.

1. On My WebJunction, in the Friends area, click on the avatar or name of the friend whose profile you wish to visit. (Use the Show All or List Friends links to see your full list of friends).

My friends portlet

2. Click on one of your friends' names, or on the List Friends page click View Profile. Your friend’s Public Profile now displays.

The Public Profile page

 

3. Locate their Comments Board and type your comment and click Post.

Post your comment to the comments board

Note: Others can view whatever you post on your Public Profile or comments posted on a friend’s profile, depending on the privacy options you or your friend has selected.

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Comment on a Document or Course

Commenting on WebJunction content allows you to share feedback that is helpful to the community. Only signed-in WebJunction members can post comments; no anonymous commenting is allowed.

Comment on a Document

1. Click on the title of any document on the site. It will open up in a new page.

2. At the bottom of the page, type your comment in the blank box provided. If this box does not appear, please verify that you are signed in.

Post a comment on WebJunction content

5. Click the Post button.

6. Click Return to Full Page.

Your comment will now appear with the document.

 

Comment on a Course

You can comment on a course only after enrolling in and launching the course. Your comments will appear whenever a member or visitor views the course description page. Your comments can help others decide if a particular course will be valuable.

1. Navigate to your My Courses page through My Account or your My WebJunction page.

2. Select the course you want to comment on and click Add Your Comment.

3. Type your comment and click Save.

4. Your comment will now appear on the course description page.

 

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Posting to Discussion Boards

Discussions can be found on many pages of the site, including Group pages. Discussions are open for everyone to view, but you must be signed in to WebJunction to reply to a post or create a new thread.

Create a New Discussion Thread

Be sure to familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines around discussion etiquette.

1. Navigate to any page that displays a Discussion tab, for example, Basic Computer Skills.

2. Click the Discussion tab.

Click on the Discussion tab

 

3. Click the Post New Thread button at the bottom of the page.

 

Post new thread

4. Type a title for your message in the Subject field. Choose a title that will convey the subject matter clearly to people scanning the discussion board. For example, "What do you think about this?" is vague; "How to reconfigure your mouse" is more specific.

5. Type your message in the Body field. Formatting, hyperlinking and emoticons are available for your use.

6. Add tags if you wish to help surface the content in search results.

7. Attach files, if desired.

8. Click Preview to view your post before submitting.

9. Click Save (this will post your discussion).

Reply to a Discussion Thread

You can reply to an existing discussion thread by clicking the Reply link and following the directions above for creating a post. The image below shows the options for participating in discussions:

A. Your profile picture and name will appear each time you reply or post a new thread. You can also view the recent posts from a particular member.

B. Tag a discussion by adding your own tags or selecting tags from the list.

C. Change your view of the discussion board, post a new thread or subscribe to a thread.

D. Reply to a discussion thread. You can also choose to include a quote from the thread which you are replying to. Click Top to return to the original discussion thread.

Discussion board options

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Subscribe to a Discussion Thread

You can subscribe to individual discussion threads to follow the activity on a particular discussion. Each time a member posts a reply to the discussion, you will receive an email with the text of their post.

1. Click on the Discussions tab.

2. Click on the Actions button next to the thread you want to follow.

3. You have two options for following a discussion thread: RSS and Subscribe.

4. Click Subscribe to receive updates to a discussion thread by email. These subscriptions will also be listed on your My WebJunction page. You can delete a subscription in that area.

5. Click RSS to receive updates to a discussion thread through an external RSS reader. (For more info on RSS, see the RSS section of the User Guide.)

 

Discussion board options

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Find and Add Friends

WebJunction helps you build your own professional networking community and increase knowledge exchange among your peers. Collaborate more directly with your peers by accessing and commenting on a friend's Public Profile.

1. Select My WebJunction on the top banner navigation.

2. Click Find Friends under the Friends section of the page.


Find friends


3. Search for members by name, email address, place of work or geographical location. This will search the entire WebJunction member directory for matching results.


Search results for friends


4. In the search results, find your friend and click Add as Friend

5. A confirmation message will display: “Your friend request has been sent.” This will add a friend request to the invitee's My WebJunction page, as well as send a system-generated email to the address associated with their member account.

To respond to a friend request:

1. Return to My WebJunction and select Friends Requests.


Friend requests

2 For each Friend Request, you are provided three options: View Profile, Accept Friend Request, or Remove Request.
Friends options

8. Select Accept Friend Request to add the member to your list of friends. Use the View Profile link to learn more about the member first. Click Remove Request if you wish to delete the request rather than accept it.

You have now added this member to your Friends.

Note: Once you have added a friend you can see more of their profile, including their other friends!

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Create a Group

What Makes a Good Group?

Groups help you connect and share resources and discussion with colleagues around a common interest. While the WebJunction site map covers a variety of topic areas, groups allow you to specialize within these topic areas. For example, you can connect with colleagues who are:

  • Interested in a specialty not addressed in a topic area
  • In a certain geographical locale
  • Working on a project together
  • Enrolled in a common course, to share as a learning cohort
  • Attending a conference
  • Alumni of an LIS institution
  • A staff cohort for a library system or branch

Determine if your interest is already covered in an existing topic page by browsing, searching or viewing the site map. If you find an existing topic, share your documents and discussions there. For a list of groups created on WebJunction's Central site, see the Groups list.

Create a Group

1. Click the Create Group link.

Create a groups

 

2. Enter Name and Description information.

Note: In naming your group, please use this naming convention:

Group: name of group (e.g., Group: ALA 2009).

You are required to add or select at least 3 tags. This helps ensure that groups are created to address topics and interests not yet represented on the site.
 
Give your group a name
 

3. Click Continue.

Browse the existing groups displayed to determine if your suggested group is unique to the site.

See if a group already exists around your topic

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page.

5. Click Yes to continue the group creation process. Clicking No will cancel the process.

Create your group

By default, this group will be associated with the topic page you were viewing when you selected Create Group.

Create a group

6. Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click the checkbox to the left of the “I accept that WebJunction has the right to move or delete the Group and all members within the Group” to enable the Save button.

7. Click the Save button.

8. Exit the Create Group procedure.

You have two options for exiting the Create Group Procedure: either by clicking the “Take me to my new group page” button or by clicking the Return to Full Page option.

View your group

 

Join the Group

Now that you have created the group, you need to join it.

1. Click your new Group link.

2. Click the Join Group link.

Join your group

Your display will "grey out" and you’ll be asked if you are sure want to join the group.

3. Click the Confirm button.

Confirm

You will see a confirmation that you have been added to the group. You can now invite other members to the group.

You have joined your group

 

Invite People to Join Your Group

1. Go to your Group page. Make sure you have joined the group; your avatar will be displayed in the Group Members area.

2. The Invite People and Leave the Group links will display on Group Members.

3. Click Invite People.

4. Enter one or more email addresses.

5. Click Send. A standardized email will be sent to the recipients to invite them to join your group. Those who are not already WebJunction members will be invited to register in order to join the group.

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Recommend Content & Courses

Recommend Content

You must be signed in to use this feature.

1. Select the title of a document to open it up.

2. Click the Recommend to Friend button at the bottom of the page.

Recommend to a Friend button

3. A new window will open on top of the greyed-out page.

Recommend an article

6. Enter one or more email addresses of the people (members or nonmembers) to whom you would like to send this recommendation into the Email Address field. You must use commas to separate the addresses (do not use semicolons). You can enter up to 5 addresses.

7. Click Send. A standardized email will be sent to the addresses that you entered, with a link to the content you are recommending.
 

Recommend Course

You may come across a course description and want to recommend it to someone on WebJunction (or even someone who might not be a WebJunction member). You can recommend a course to a friend or WebJunction member, even if you have not enrolled in the course. However, you must be signed in to use this feature.

1. Locate a course by browsing the catalog under the Courses tab or through search.

2. Click on the course name to view the course description.

3. On the course description page, click Recommend to Friend.

4. Enter the email addresses of the people you want to receive your recommendation.

5. Click Send. A standardized email will be sent to the addresses that you entered, with a link to the course you are recommending.
 

Course Recommendation

Your recipient will receive your email message with a link to the course description in the WebJunction course catalog.

 

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Create an RSS Feed

You can set up an RSS feed to keep up to date with new content posted to the site. Any page that displays the orange RSS "chicklet" can be fed into an external RSS feed reader.

RSS chicklet

 

Before you begin

An RSS feed reader is a third-party tool that WebJunction can interact with. Most are available for free and are easy to set up. Some commonly used feed readers are

 

Setting up a Feed for a Topic Page

1. Locate the page you want to add to your feed reader.

2. Click on the orange RSS chicklet.

3. A new page will open with code that you can copy and paste into your RSS reader.

RSS code view

 

Setting up a Feed for a Discussion

You can also set up RSS feeds as a way to follow discussion posts. You can receive updates on all of the discussions on the page, or you can follow an individual thread.

Follow All the Discussions on a Page

1. Locate the discussion page you want to follow.

2. Click on the orange RSS chicklet in the upper right corner of the page.

3. Copy and paste the RSS code into your feed reader.

Follow a discussion page

 

 

Follow a Single Discussion Thread

1. Locate the discussion thread you want to follow.

2. Click on the Actions button.

3. Click on the orange RSS chicklet.

4. Copy and paste the code into your RSS feed reader.

Follow a single discussion thread.

 

Search

You can search for content, courses and WebJunction members using the global search box at the top right of every page on WebJunction. You can also search the course catalog using the search box built into the catalog.

A global WebJunction search will look for your search term where it is found within Content (which includes documents and discussions), Courses, Members and Groups.

The most common search is a keyword search. A keyword search looks for terms in the title, author, description and tags, as well as where your term(s) appear in the content on Public Profile pages of other members.

Search results and the number of items returned are displayed across the Content, Courses, Members and Groups tabs.

Search

 

Advanced Search

Below is information about some advanced search parameters from our current site. All the operators should be the same in the new Search (although indexing and relevancy will be improved):

To narrow your search, use the following methods:

Phrase search

  • To match an exact word or phrase, use quotes around the word or phrase. Example: "public access computing"

To find results that contain all of the search terms:

  • Use AND between each of the terms. Example: immigrant AND patrons (note: AND must be in all caps)

OR

  • Precede each word with a plus sign (+). Example: +immigrant +patrons

To eliminate a term from the results:

  • Use NOT between each of the terms. Example: patrons NOT immigrant (note: NOT must be in all caps)

OR

  • Precede the term to be eliminated with a minus sign (-). Example: patrons -immigrants

Field Search

  • You can limit a search to a specific field in the index by placing a colon between the fieldname and a single word.
  • The fields available for searching are: keywords, description, author, title, and reference
    • Example: title:wiki
    • This search will find items in which the title contains the word wiki.
  • If you include additional words in the search, Search looks for these added words in the content.
    • Example: title:wiki public software
    • This search will find items in which the title contains the word wiki and may contain the words public or software.

 

Tagging

Creating Tags and Tagging Content

A tag is a keyword or term that describes an item. Tags also help others find items through browsing or searching. You can create your own tags or select them from the list.

You have many options for creating tags and tagging content on the site. You can add tags to the following content on WebJunction:

  • Your public profile page under Select Interests
  • Documents
  • Discussions
  • Groups
  • Courses

A lot of tags have already been populated; however, we encourage you to add your own tags to this list.

Tag Documents, Groups and Courses

You can add tags to documents, groups and courses. Tags help to describe content, make it more searchable and link to related content. The following example will show you how to tag a document. Adding tags to other types of content follows a similar process.

  1. Click the title of any document.
  2. Look for the text box alongside the Add Tags or Select Tags button.Add tags
  3. To select from a list of tags that already exist, click on the Select Tags button.
  4. Check the boxes beside the tags that you want to select; you can select more than one.
  5. Click Save.

If you don’t find any existing tags that you want to use:

  1. Type the tags you prefer in the text box, separated by commas, and click Add Tag.

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Webinars

WebJunction continues to offer an ongoing series of webinars that provide free online learning opportunities. Webinars are open to everyone; however, registration is required. You can find more information about our schedule of upcoming webinar topics on the webinars page. All of our webinars take place online using the Wimba Classroom web conferencing tool.

Webinar Registration

WebJunction webinars require registration via the WebJunction Calendar. Webinar attendees will receive confirmation of their registration by email as well as an additional follow-up reminder before the webinar. Instructions for joining the webinar will be sent to registrants in these emails.

Before you Attend

Before attending any Wimba Classroom event you should first walk through the Setup Wizard. Do this at any time before attending your first Wimba session (live or archived)--you won’t need to do it again. The Wizard will ensure you have the software and configuration you need to see and hear the presentation.

Wimba Classroom Guide
 

You can find additional information on attending webinars using Wimba Classroom in our Wimba Classroom Guide.

 

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