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This is the Netlog User Guide to help you manage and create your Brand Page. In this document you will

find tips, hints and how to’s to upload content, select your skin, ... Simplified how to make your Brand Page

look more attractive and how to work with all the featured offered by Netlog.

Table of contents:

• How to get started 1

How to manage your Brand Page

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• Profile : Your Basic Data 2

• Public : 2

• Logo : 2

• Tagline : 2

• About Brandpage : 2

• Website : 2

• Newsletter : 2

• Country - Region : 2

• HTML 2

• Scoop : 2

• Manage your Profile 2

• Guestbook 2

• Pictures 2

• Blogs 2

• Videoʼs 2

• Events 2

• Music 2

• Polls 2

• Photo-Polls 2

• Manage -> Profile -> Layout 2

• Shouts: 2

• Video : 2

• HTML : 2

• Picture : 2

• Text : 2

• Profile picture : 2

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• Scoop : 3

• Poll (max. 2) : 3

• Feed : 3

• Skin : 3

How to get started

The Netlog Brand Page concept is probably all new to you. Well, we’ll help you get started ! You received

your user name and password from Netlog or a saleshouse. Now it’s time to log in.

Go and visit http://nl.netlog.com. In the right corner you’ll see two boxes where you can insert your user

name (nickname) and password. Click the “log in”

button.

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Profile : Your Basic Data

All basic information is saved and controlled from Basic Data. In this chapter we’ll discuss each topic.

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Public :

this option allows you to open your brandpage to the public or keep it private, by checking one of the two choices.

Logo :

this feature provides the chance to change the logo very easily. This logo is the one that will be displayed together with the slogan on every Netlog member’s profile that has added the brand.

Tagline : this slogan will be dispalyed on every Netlog member’s profile, below the brand’s image when members add the brand to their list of favorite brands.

About Brandpage :

About brandpage: in this box you can write a text about the brandpage, product,... There’s an unlimited amount of characters that you can use, although we strongly suggest not to make it too long.

Website :

If you write down your website’s address here, it will be featured on the brandpage, on the right hand side in the white box. It contains a direct link to your website.

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Newsletter :

users can subscribe to your newsletter, just fill in the link.

Country - Region :

It is really important you fill in the correct country, this in order to get found by the right public.

HTML

You can add html codes all over your page: Header-Footer-sidebar. If you want to integrate an I-frame you

can do it in these boxes. Links can also be inserted. Please note that all links have to be hosted by the

brandowner as Netlog does not host anything.

It determines the look and feel of the header: You can make your header very attractive depending on your

creative skills. This can lead to a lot of activity on your page.

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Scoop :

If you have a new topic, extra news,.... You can give it extra attention by putting it in a scoop. It is best to

insert 3 lines, the scoop bar changes every couple of seconds.

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Manage your Profile

Click on the ‘Manage’ tab in the main menu on top of the page. If you are on the Manage page, the Manage

tab will colour red, like on the screenshot below.

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Guestbook

With this feature the users can leave a comment on your brand page. They can ‘quote’ eachother and react.

You, as a brand, can comment back on those comments. There are 2 possibilities to show the guestbook

comments on your brand page: either you choose to show the guestbook box (it only shows the last

comment) or you minimize the guestbook box. You can do this in the Manage/Profile menu. We suggest to

maximize it, as it creates a buzz around the brand and users feel more involved. Moderation is possible. You

can chenge the settings in the Settings/Privacy menu.

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How to quote (guestbook, photo and video comments)?

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Pictures In this section you can manage the pictures that you already uploaded and of course, you can upload an

unlimited amount of pictures.

Uploading a picture: choose ‘+upload a photo’ on the top right of your screen. The pictures should be bigger

than 80 x 60px and not larger then 3mb. If the file is bigger it automatically gets resized to 540 x 500 px. You

can choose to use this picture as your profilepicture and/or logo simply by checking the box. The logo is the

one that will be displayed as avatar together with the slogan to the Netlog members who added the brand as

a friend.

If you wish to have one or more pictures displayed on your brandpage, click on any picture and then: add to

my profilepage. You can also set the privacy setting of the picture and choose to add a watermark to the

picture.

Editing a picture: if you click on any picture in the manage/pictures menu, you can change all privacy setting,

ad/change the description, add/change the tags, moderate the comments on this picture, set this picture as

profilepicture and/or logo and add one or more notes to this picture. You are also able to put this picture in

the Spotlight (displayed on the homepage for a limited time).

With the Thumbnail and Watermark tabs, you can adjust the way the thumbnail of the picture looks to the

users and you can add a custom watermark message into the picture.

You can also create Sets of pictures, a very usefull feature when you have a lot of pictures on your profile.

Users then can browse the pictures set by set.

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Blogs

Regular blogs: you can use the Netlog blogs to write interesting messages for the Netlog users to read and

comment. You can write an unlimited amount of blogs. Users love to read and comment on them. You can

change the privacy setting, moderate the comments and put the blog in the Spotlight, all via the

Manage/Blogs menu.

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Feeds: there is also the possibility to import existing blogs (from another website) on your Netlog brand

page. So, if you already have a blog, there is no need to copy them. You can just use the ‘import’ tool in the

Manage/Blogs menu. Hereunder you can find an example:

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Video’s If your video is smaller than 100 MB you can upload it immediately straight from your computer. There is the

possibility to upload video’s directly from YouTube. Just copy paste the Video’s URL in the upload menu. It

takes some minutes up to a couple of hours for videos to appear on your brand page (they have to be

moderated). If you wish to add the video to your profile, just click on it and choose ‘embed this on ...’. You

can only embed 2 videos on your brand page.

If you embedd a

video on your brand page, the users will be able to put this video on their own profile. This, together with the

skin, will make them viral ambassadors of your brand.

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Events A very important feature, especially for organizers of concerts/parties, clubs, bars, youth movements is the

possibillity to post an event. All events are usergenerated and moderated. An event will be accepted if all

Netlog members have the posibility to attend it. Important to know if that most of the Event activity happens

in the Explore/Events menu and not in the Manage/Events menu as you can see on the screenshot below.

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Music

With this feature you can show the users what artists you are a fan of. This is not the same as the

musicplayer! The music player feature will be explained in another chapter.

Polls If you want to question the visitors of your page, you can put one or two polls on your brand page and provide

some possible answers. A minimum of 2 options is required to add a poll onto the brand page. Voters can

vote by selecting one of the answers provided. After voting they will be able to retrieve the results and have

a clear view of the voting trend up to then.

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Photo-Polls

The photo poll feature is just as easy as the questionnaire. Instead of 2 or more answers you provide us, just

upload pictures and select them to add to your poll.

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Manage -> Profile -> Layout

Shouts:

you can consider shouts as micro-blogging or SMS on Netlog. It can be shown on the homepage and it is

visible to all your friends. There is also the possibility to shout at one of your friends individually, using the @

symbol before typing the name of the friend you want to shout at.

Video : You can add 2 different video’s to your profile as discussed before.

HTML : Next to the header and footer HTML blocks you can add 5 extra HTML-boxes to your profile. Select the block

and write the code in it. Don’t forget to save! The width of your HTML, that you put in the header or footer,

can be no more than 140px.

Picture :

If you want to add an extra picture on your page, you need to do it here. If you click this you’ll see your

pictures, just click on one and (same as video) choose: embed on profilepage.

Text : Two optional text fields are provided. Please note that there ‘s a limited amount of characters that can be

used: 1000 max.

Profile picture : Here you can change or add profile pictures.

Scoop :

See Manage Overview

Poll (max. 2) :

See Manage Overview

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Feed :

This is used to get the content of an external site on your on brandpage. You could use this for blog

messages.

To change the setup of your page, simply click on “move”, hold it and drag it to the place you want.

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Skin : As a brand it is recommendable to design your own skin. This can either be done by Netlog or yourself. For

the skin development, please check our Skin Development Kit (http://nl.netlog.com/go/developer). Skins

can be shareable : This means that users can take over your custom made skin and set it as their own. This

way users become a viral ambassador of your brand.

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