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Stage Directions
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| Welcome to AboutUs. I'm Ted on the left, and that's Mark on the right. He'll be clicking through the screen while I talk.
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photo of Mark and Ted
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| The topic of today's screencast is Why create an account?
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Big WHY
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| When you sign up for an account and log in, located in the upper right-hand corner,
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Sign Up button Login button
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| you will see your account box.
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Hover over account box
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| When you click your name you go to you own personal page.
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hover over "personal page" link, then over the name
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| You can write a little about about yourself, or a lot.
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Ray's personal page, scroll down
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| You also have a talk page where people can leave you comments. Your talk page is located under your name in the account box.
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Ray's talk page, hovering over talkpage, then over "my talk"
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| When someone leaves you a message, the account box turns yellow.
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yellow box notification
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| Another feature is the ability to watch pages for changes. To add a page, you click the watch link.
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hover over watch eye
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| To see the changes to these pages, click on "my watchlist". You can also get updates by email.
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hovering over "my watchlist"
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| Another great benefit of logging in is that you can Upload images. It's easy put them on the left, or on the right.
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Switch windows to page with images, scroll down
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| I'll bet you'll use this next one a lot. Norad Areal Estate. Hmmmm. That seems wrong. You can use the move page link to change the capitalization. It's easy. Snap fingers. Pause.
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misnamed page that gets fixed
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| Let's go back to the account box. You can see your work by clicking my contributions. This is great for finding what pages you've recently worked on, because sometimes you forget the pagename. no pause
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on the NordaRealEstate.com page show Mark's contributions
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| The last link in your account box, besides logout, pause is "my preferences".
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click on the preferences tab
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| Among the many options there, is how you sign your name. There are simple ways and fancier ways. Pause
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Kristina's signature, Vartan's, Ray's?, Mark's, Kasey
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| Logging in gives us not only some great extra features, but also allows us to get to know each other. While we appreciate the contributions of LGONZ23 and Eternalwarrior, feel how different it is to work with Steven, Vartan, Cody, Julia, Ray, Kasey and Diego. We prefer you use your name here.
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view WhosOnline, and move mouse over the names
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| Ted and Mark, signing off. See you on the wiki.
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the opening photo
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