Setting Up A Digg Account

Objective: to create an account and profile, to upload a photo, modify privacy settings, add friends, and send and receive messages

• STEP 1: Create an Account at http://digg.com/

• Click Join Digg

• Fill in the form

  • Click the arrow to the right of a box to view your options

    • Select the option that applies to you

• Type the text and numbers you see in the shaded box into the text box above the shaded box

• Check the box

  • This indicates you have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy for using Digg

• Click Continue

• Check your email

  • Go to the email account that you provided in the registration form

  • Follow the instructions in the email message

name@whatever.com

• STEP 2: Create a Profile

• Click My Profile

• Click Add a Bio & Links

• Fill in the form with whatever information you want made available

  • Click the arrow to the right of a box to view your options

  • Select the option that applies to you

  • You can enter a short bio in About Me

• Click Save Changes

• If you have a website or other online profile such as MySpace, you can add links to them

  • Click Add

• You can also add your contact information for instant messaging

  • Click the arrow to the right of the box at Instant Messaging to view your options

  • Select the option that applies to you

  • Click Add

• STEP 3: Upload Photo

• Click My Profile

• Click Add a Photo

• Click Browse

  • Select the folder with the photo you want to upload

  • Only 5mb or smaller JPG/JPEG, PNG, and GIF images allowed

  • Click Open

• If you would like a caption to go with the photo, click inside the text box to the right of Write Caption

  • Write your caption

• Click Upload Photo

• Click All Photos or Your Gallery

• Click on a photo to select it

  • Click inside the text box below Edit Caption

    • Type whatever caption you want for the photo

    • Click Save

• Click Make This Your User Icon if you want to use the photo for your icon

• Put your pointer over the box that is on top of your photo

  • Your pointer will change from an arrow to a cross

• Click on the box and move the box around until what you see within the box is how you want the finished photo to look

  • As you move the box around, look to the upper right of your screen

  • The photo in the upper right will change as you move the box

  • What you see in the upper right photo is how your cropped photo will look

• Click Apply Cropping when the photo is how you want it to look

• STEP 4: Add Friends

• Click Add Friends

  • Click Add Friends below the green tab or

  • Click Add Friends from the menu bar at the top of the page

• Add friends from you address book

  • Example: Yahoo

    • Click Yahoo Address Book

• Type your username for your Yahoo account

• Type your password

• Click Continue

• Select the people from your address book you want to invite

• Digg has a standard message it sends to the people you invite

• Click inside the Email text box if you want to customize the message your friends receive

• Click Send Invite

• Click Search for Friends

  • You can do a search to find friends who have a Digg account

    • Type the information needed to search by

      • email,

      • name, or

      • location

• Click Search

• The search results will be displayed

• Click Friend to select the person you want to add as a friend

  • The friend icon will be on the right side of the screen at the bottom of a person’s details

• Click Invite People

• You can type email addresses of your friends and send them an invitation to join Digg

  • Click inside the text box marked email #1

  • Type a friend’s email address

  • Hit Tab to move to the next box down

• Digg has a standard invitation that it sends, but you can customize your invitation

• Click inside the Email text box

• Type the message you want sent to your friends

• Click Send Invitation

• STEP 5: Choose the Amount of Privacy Your Want

• Click My Profile

• Click Settings

• Select what information you want available to whom

  • My Friends = People YOU have added as a friend

  • Items that are always displayed for public view include the following:

    • your Diggs

    • comments you make

    • stuff you submit

    • your friends

    • your user icon

    • your username

• Click Save Changes

• STEP 6: Check Messages

• Click on the Shouts link

  • Digg refers to quick messages between users of Digg as shouts

  • A new shout would be like saying you have a new message in your inbox

• Shouts you’ve received are listed

  • Click if you want to block someone from sending you shouts

• STEP 7: Send Messages

• Click digg or home

• Click Share

  • Let’s say you found a story on Digg you want to share with friends

• If you have mutual friends in Digg, they will be listed.

• Select the friend or friends you want to share the story with

• Click Email It

  • Click Email It if you want to share the story with people who are not on Digg.

    • Enter a friend’s email address

  • Click Add Another to add additional friends to the email message

  • Click inside the Message text box to write your own email message if you want

  • Enter the letters and numbers you see in the shaded box on the right

  • Click Send Message

• STEP 8: Log Out of Digg

• Click Logout