Notices can be viewed on a map, a timeline and a commentary screen and you navigate between these screens using the crown icons.
You can just browse the Notices in the area around you on the map or the feed or find Notices containing names or keywords using the search facility under the NOTICEING gif at the top, centre of the screen.
Post up a Notices using the "POST A NOTICE" dropdown just above here.
Use this Control Panel to edit, delete or answer enquiries about your Notices. It opens and closes from the sphere on the top right
View comments by touching or clicking the green button below the Notice, the grey button opens the replies.
Vote notices and comments up the ranking or down and off the screen (if the vote count goes below -5)! Content shown on the Network is curated by the people who use the network!
Click the Noticeing logo central on the navigation bar to open the Search. Find Notices containing keywords or put up by a person whose name you know.
Click the Crown on the left of the navigation bar to view notices opening from markers on a Map.
No need to sign up or login to get going on Noticeing, you can post, vote, comment or edit your posts straight away.
Doubleclick to close this user guide.
You can paste a YouTube link into the circle next to the file upload button or upload your own .mov or .mp4 videos in the same way as an image.
To edit or delete a Notice you need to be in the same location you were in when you posted it or you need to keep the browser tab you used to post the Notice open. The edit Notices facility is just below this user guide.
You can also post Notices from the Map screen although you can't edit them from there. Posts from mobiles are marked with a lightening flash on the Map of with a blue compass when posted using a broadband connection.
To change the scale of your search click the 'widen search area' button just above here or use the crown,top left, to link to the Map then scale out and use the search there.
You can see the voting facility below the crown under the headline of the Notice.
To vote on comments and replies touch or mouseover the text and the voting facility appears.
The aggregate vote is shown in the middle. If that goes below -5 the Notice, Comment or Reply is voted off the screen. Mouse over or touch the comment or reply to see the vote and use the red triangles to vote up or down.
An open & democratic network
Noticeing is an open network - no need to sign up or login to join in - where the content shown on the network is controlled by the network's users.
You can vote down badly written or offensive Notices and Comments and vote up notices you like or agree with! Notices are voted off the network if their score goes below -5. Voting is verified so you can only vote once on each notice or comment.
Click to open "Post a Notice from here" or "Widen search area", double click to close.
From the Control Panel you can manage/edit/delete every notice or comment you have posted on Noticeing + send and receive messages.
Noticeing does not store anything relating to your identity, no name, address or email, only the location you were in when you posted the notice. That could be a room in your house, your workplace or a special place!
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIGN UP OR LOGIN TO ENGAGE WITH NOTICEING BUT YOU DO HAVE TO BE IN THE SAME LOCATION YOU WERE IN WHEN YOU POSTED THE NOTICE IN ORDER TO EDIT IT OR RECEIVE MESSAGES REGARDING IT.
Below this guide you can edit the title and text of your notices, change the image, edit or delete comments and replies and send personal messages and enquiries.
You can also setup a daily email newsletter and get email notifications when you receive enquiries or messages about your notices.
The Timeline is like the feed on Facebook, Twitter or Reddit.
Instead of showing posts by people you know, people you follow or by category it shows Notices that have been posted by people within certain distances away, ordered by the most recent first. The Map is centred on your location and shows Notices put up by people and businesses in the area around you. It's a kind of marketplace/local resources/archive where you can find people with the same interests, recycle things, find local tradespeople, businesses, events and so on. The Forum is a new, dynamic way of commenting on Notices.
Timeline
You can change the size of the catchment area around your location that you get notices from by adjusting the black & white scale bar at the top of the screen. Up to half a mile away is for your street and the streets or roads in the immediate vicinity, Up to 2 miles away is your part of town, up to 16 miles away (default setting) is most of the city if you live in one, up to 500 miles might be most of the country and worldwide is everywhere.
Find notices containing keywords or put up by people with screen names by entering text into the 'finder' that opens when you touch or click the Noticeing logo.
Vote posts, comments and replies up or down using the different VOTE buttons. If the vote, shown between the buttons, goes below -4 the post or comment is deleted.
Edit or delete notices, comments and replies or send and receive messages from here in the control panel that opens from the white menu icon on the right of the navigation bar.
Map
Notices open from markers on the Map positioned where the person was when they posted the Notice, those marked by a lightening flash were posted from a mobile and those marked by a compass were posted from a computer. The map is centered on your current location.
Touch or click on the markers to open their displays. Pinch or splay the screen to pan in or out of the map. Touch or click the 'Message' dropdown below the display to send an enquiry or message to the poster.
Touch or click on the logo, top centre, to open the Search which highlights with a halo, Notices containing keywords or Notices put up by a person whose screen name you know. If the keyword is in the title the highlight is magenta, in the text green and if a name corresponds the highlight is yellow.
Search highlighting is a powerful new search method that enables you to find tradespeople or people with same interests in the area around you. Just type in a keyword; plumber, tennis, recycle and markers whose Notices contain the word are highlighted.
Immediatly below the search box touch "POST A NOTICE ON THE MAP" to post up your own Notice.
The Noticeing map presents a marketplace where tradespeople, shops. restaurants, artists can advertise what thy have on offer and local people can find people with common interests living nearby. There's a messaging dropdown at the bottom of each notice that you can use to send an enquiry to the poster.
NOTICEING search is asynchronous so you don't have to click an search button- just touch done on a mobile so that the keyboard doesn't hide the map. Different coloured halos highlight markers whose posts contain the word in the title or text or the name of the poster.
Lightening markers represent posts that have been put up using a phone whereas the compass represent posts put up using a computer with broadband access. Cell phone posts are wiped after 2 weeks, computer posts last a month and both are rendered 'fuzzy' so that they show the approximate, not the accurate location of the poster.
If you get stuck with sizes or scale or windows that don't close just click the reload button in the browser (at the top of the screen).
Navigation - The menu icon, top right, opens a ControlPanel where you can edit your Notices and reply to messages. The blue sphere to the left of it opens Map Controls where you can choose to show or hide your markers, select a different style of map or reload the map screen so that it is centred on your current location.
Forum
Usually comments and replies to comments are listed starting with the first or last at the top. Comment-Tree shows posts and comments in a more visual and even handed way that prolongs and enhances discussions.
Comment-Tree works on computer, iPad and mobile, splay the screen on your mobile to increase the size of the icons opening posts, comments and replies to comments. Respond to posts and comments using the drop downs or by voting.
Geolocation is used to show you Notices posted from the surrounding area and to center the map on where you are.
Your location is used as your ID on Noticeing so you don't have to sign up or login but you do have to be in the same location you were in when you posted the Notice to edit it or to send and receive messages regarding it.
Use a room in your home, your workplace or a special place as your base when you're "Noticeing" then you will be automatically logged in so you can edit posts or reply to enquiries. Another way is to keep the tab on the browser that you used to post the notice open and reload the page from that tab to update your messages etc.
Repeat: Noticing uses your location as a form of ID so you don't have to setup or login to post or comment but you do have to be in the same location to edit or delete your posts - unless you keep the tab you used to post the Notice open in your browser.
When your Notice is posted on the map it opens from a marker positioned where you were when you posted the notice. So that other people don't exactly know where you live or work the location is put through a randomiser that makes the location approximate and not exactly correct. You can also choose to switch location off so that your notice is not marked on the Map. Do this by opening a dialogue from the blue sphere to the left of the menu sphere, on the right of the nav bar on the Map screen.
The map based marketplace is a particularly useful resource because the 'Search' higlights notices containing your keyword and you can increase or decrease the range of the seach by panning in or out of the Map.
If you are looking for tradespeople just type in the trade name and see their notices highlighted. You can see how far away they are and send an enquiry.
Include keywords in your notice that you think someone looking for what you have on offer might use. Pitch your notice at people out and about using their phone with special offers or more generally with a listing of what you sell or do.
Enquiries appear in the Control Panel or Message window so you need to check peiodically or, if you sign up for the daily digest, an email notification will be sent automatically when you get an enquiry. You can reply to enquiries by text in the message window.
Residents and traders use the Map as a Marketplace.
Use it to find people with same interests living nearby.
Find out about upcoming events.
Find accommodation locally or further afield.
Buy and sell goods locally.
Show pics of things for recycling so local people can find them
Find local tradespeople.
Exhibit Art and Craft works to a local audience.
Highlight places where things need to be done.
Touch/Click the white menu icon on the top left of the image and retweet it so that people in your area can see it! You have to enter an intro so that people know why you reposted it.