Zocku Owners' Network

• You can choose if you would like to solely allow one e-mail domain to sign-up to your site, for instance if you only want students and teachers at your school to sign up to your network.
• You can also do the opposite, and ban certain e-mail domains, for instance the domain of a rival business.
• To do either of these actions, go to your admin centre, which can be accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.zocku.com.
• Click on the 'Access Settings' box.

• Once inside 'Access Settings', go to the block titled "Limit registration by domain"

• To allow only one e-mail domain, type in the domain, i.e. 'myschool.com'
• To ban a domain, type in the domain with an exclamation mark infront of it, for instance, "!hotmail.com"

• Don't forget to click 'Save Changes' to save your settings.
• Now, if someone tries to sign-up with an e-mail address you have banned, the user will see this message:

• On your network you have a ‘News’ tab, to which you can add your own custom news feeds.  Lots of websites offer an RSS feed, which is basically some form of content transmitted by a site, which you can then add to your network. Check out http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/feed101;jsessionid=01563D5FFE69D3CD555134F7280 for a more thorough explanation of what RSS is.

• The address for an RSS feed will look like this http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml.  You’ll notice this icon on any website that has content - whether text, audio or video - to which you can subscribe and read, watch and listen.

• To add an RSS feed to your network, go to the ‘RSS News Feed’ section of your admin centre, which can be accessed via the ‘Launch Admin’ button in your sidebar, or by going to my.zocku.com

• Once inside the ‘RSS News Feeds’ section, there are two ways to upate your RSS feed. You can add a new news feed by clicking 'Add A News Feed'.

• You can then enter the name of your newsfeed into the 'Name' text field and also keyword to do with your feed topic into the 'keyword' field.

• The second way of adding a news feed is to use the Google News Search feature.  This method enables you to create your own feed by entering a keyword or phrase, which Google then uses to search ALL their news stories, and provides you with stories that contain your keyword. 

• You can test what stories your keyword will result in by typing your keyword in to http://news.google.co.uk/

• To use this method, simply chose google from the drop down box type your keyword's and title, and hit ‘Add News Feed’ to submit.

• You can disable a feed, so that it is not displayed on your network, but it’s details remain in your ‘Existing Feeds’ list.  This is useful for when you temporarily want to suspend a news feed, but do not wish to delete it fully. Simply tick the box next to ‘Disable’ and press ‘Update Feeds’

• You can delete a feed, so that it is not displayed on your network, and does not appear in your ‘Existing Feeds’ list. Simply press the red ‘Delete’ cross button in the box of the feed you want to delete.
  
• To organise the order in which your feeds are presented on your page you can use the 'drag and drop' option by simply clicking on the white bare containing the number in your feed box. Your feed boxes can be dragged above or below one another as shown below.
  
  

• To update your RSS feed details simply press the 'save changes' button at the bottom of the page.

• As the network owner, you can set various levels of security for a member to sign-up. 
• You can approve members, so that before someone can access the site, you must approve their sign-up request. This is useful when you want to individually decide who can be a member of your network.
• You can also set up a password for people to use to join your network. This is useful for when you wish to have a slight degree of exclusivity, but also want users to be able to sign-up and access the site right away - as long as the know the password!

• To change your access settings, you can do so by going to your admin centre, which can be accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.zocku.com.
• Once inside your admin centre, click on the 'Access Settings' section.

• The first option when you enter the 'Access Settings' section, is to set up an 'Access Code'. You can create a code of your choice, which users must enter on the sign up form in order to access your network, as seen here:

• Click on the tickbox next to "Access code ".

• Type your access code in to the box, and then either click 'Save Changes', or you can also decide if you'd like to make new members subject to approval by you or a moderator.
• This means that when a user signs up to your network, before being able to access the network, you or a moderator will have to approve (or deny) their request from the moderation section of your sidebar.
• Once you've chosen to add an access code, to require approval, or both options, you must press the 'Save Changes' button to save your settings.

• If you have set your network to 'Require Approval' for new members, then you will find their requests in your sidebar (as will any moderators you have elected on your site) as seen here:

1. Click on 'Add new blog' in the sidebar


2. Add your page content (i.e. your text which you can format, images using 'Add image' and create links), using the tools in the Tiny MCE

3. Click the 'HTML' button once you've added all your content


4. Copy and paste the contents of the pop up window - this is your HTML code
 
5. Paste this code in to the 'Edit Page Content' section of tab you wish to edit.



 6. Save your changes, and you will have updated your tab's content!

zocku websites work great on their own or as part of your existing online presence. On their own, they act as a self-contained social space for your group to interact online and for you to publish information publicly about your group.

If you have an existing website, your zocku network can work side-by-side with it.

Here are a number of ways can integrate the two.

1) Create a link to your new network

It sounds simple, and it is! The easiest way for people to find your new network is to add an additional link into your current websites navigation that goes directly to your zocku network. The link can be called "Community" for example.


2) Brand your zocku network

In your zocku Admin Center you can design your network by adding colours, logos and even custom CSS. This allows you to make the design of your zocku network consistent with your site so it feels part of the websites. 


3) Make your zocku network a subdomain

If you own a top level domain like http://www.MyCompany.com, then why not use the Custom URL feature in the zocku Admin Center to setup a subdomain. You could call it http://community.MyCompany.com or http://talk.MyCompany.com/.


4) Integrate with your existing member database

Ok, this one is not for the faint hearted but if you have technical expertise then you can sync any database contact list with your zocku network using our API. This allows you to keep any existing database of people on a forum, mail server, existing community or company intranet synced with your zocku network. It saves people having to register with yet another website and ensure that your network becomes 100% useful day 1. For more information, please visit the zocku Admin Center.

Got a question? Visit our help center.

• As a network owner, you can create custom questions for your members to answer.
• These questions are useful for gathering more information about users, such as for specific details relevant to your network, and also for making users' profiles more interesting and informative

• Answers can be required, or optional.
• You can choose whether you wish users' answers to be displayed to everyone on your network, or just moderators and you, the owner.
• Answers can be written as one option from a list, as a single line answer, or as a multi line answer, depending on which option you choose.

• To add a custom question to your network, go to your admin centre, which can be accessed via the link in your sidebar, or at http://my.zocku.com

• Click 'Add Another Question'

• First, enter your question.
• Then choose what type of answer you would like the user to be able to give.
• The 3 different answer fields will appear like this to users:
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• Once you've selected which kind of answer you'd like your users to give, you can choose the settings for the answer.

• If you'd like only moderators and owners to be able to see the answer, untick 'Show field on profile'.

• If you'd like to make answering the question compulsory when members sign-up, select 'Required field'.
• If you wouldnt like the question to go live or wanted it to be temporarily disabled you can untick the 'Active' box you can then come back at a later date and make the question active.
  

• Once you've written your question, and confirmed the settings for it, click the 'Update Questions' button.

• Once you've set your questions, they will be seen in the 'Sign-Up' form, and also in the 'Edit Profile' section of 'Manage Account' in your sidebar.
• The answers to your custom questions will be visible on every member's profile, like this:

• You must click 'Update questions' for your changes to be saved

• Zocku allows you to temporarily suspend your network, so that you may introduce new content, or perform maintenance.
• To do this, go to your admin centre, via your sidebar or at http://my.Zocku.com and click on 'Access Settings'.

• Once inside the 'Access Settings' section, scroll to the bottom, where it says 'Maintenance mode'.

• Check the box to make your network in-active, and should you wish to display a message to your users, you can enter one in the text box.
• Press 'Save Changes' to save your settings.
• Now, when a user goes to the network, they will see a message looking like this:

• Remember, you only need to go back to the 'Access Settings' section of your admin centre, and simply un-click on the  box, followed by 'Save Changes', to make your network active again!