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We missed sending out the reminder email at the beginning of the month, so "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest"  currently has only 11 entries. There's still about a week left to get your entry in! ~~SM |
The following winners for the July 2008 running of "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 54 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First: "Invalid Item" by larryp Second: "Invalid Item" by Mike Day  Third: "Invalid Item" by Sandals Thanks to all our participants, judges and special thanks to Diane for managing our site sponsored contest!~~SM  ![Merit Badge in Appreciation
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| Hello, Members! Log into your Writing.Com account today, Wednesday, August 20th, 2008, and you'll automatically earn 1,000 Gift Points! * Please note: Login Gift Points are automatically awarded just after Midnight on the day of login... When you login the 20th, you'll receive your Gift Points by 12:30am, on the 21st. Receipt of login Gift Points can be confirmed on your My Gift Points page. All times are Eastern. Thanks for your support and Write On, ~~SM and SMs |
| Greetings Members! First and foremost, this new feature is for members with a Premium Membership or above. Please, no hate mail that I made you read the whole announcement and didn't tell you it was a Premium Membership feature.  This is an "unofficial" announcement that we're opening up a beta testing on our newest feature: My Inkspot @ InkSpot.Com Members can now activate a "copy" of their portfolio at @ InkSpot.Com. The system's setup process is available within your My Portfolio -> Settings area. Once there, you'll see the link for My InkSpot.Com Setup. The setup process allows beginners a quick and easy setup, while allowing members with more knowledge of HTML and website design the ability to further customize their InkSpot. For en example, I've setup My InkSpot: http://www.InkSpot.Com/authors/storymaster Writing.Com is filled with tools and links, InkSpot.Com is your "Spot" - well, "InkSpot". Consider Writing.Com your back office to your InkSpot.Com front-end space. Member account on InkSpot.Com are interchangeable with those on Writing.Com. That means that access restrictions work between sites, groups included! And, if you have a forum on Writing.Com that's accessible by a passkey, it'll work just as well on InkSpot.Com. Item tags, user tags, etc all work the same. If there's a link to an item or a user on InkSpot.Com that whom has not activated their InkSpot (either by choice or by membership restriction), that link will bounce right over to Writing.Com. We're opening this early on in the testing process so members can experiment with the styling options available and let us know what they'd like to see in the future. We'll be adding plenty more features, including the ability to choose whether items are accessible on just Writing.Com, just InkSpot.Com or both! At this point, rating and reviewing are non-functional and there is really no means to get feedback from your InkSpot unless you add an email link to any of your HTML areas. Blogs do not show calendars, links, etc. We'll fix that and they will. I am excited to see how our members use this new innovation from Writing.Com... and we look forward to providing more tools in the future! Best wishes, ~~SM |
| The following winners for the June 2008 running of "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" were chosen from the 20 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Invalid Item" by bronxbishop Second Place - "Invalid Item" by flex Third Place - "Invalid Item" by MetaphorSquared Thanks to all our participants, judges and special thanks to Diane for managing our site sponsored contest!~~SM |
| Hello, Members! Log into your Writing.Com account today, Friday, July 18th, 2008, and you'll automatically earn 1,000 Gift Points! * Please note: Login Gift Points are automatically awarded just after Midnight on the day of login... When you login July 18th, you'll receive your Gift Points by 12:30am, on the 19th. Receipt of login Gift Points can be confirmed on your My Gift Points page. All times are Eastern. Thanks for your support and Write On, ~~SM and SMs (A little late on the posting, but better late than never! ) |
| New: My Portfolio "Tools" Tab The recent upgrades to Writing.Com's "My Portfolio" area included an "Info" tab. This tab has now been renamed to Tools and provides better linking to the many tools available for managing your Writing.Com portfolio. The tools linked from this area include: Export Portfolio: Download the contents of your portfolio. Item Edit Logs: A new tool to track changes to your items. Item Summary: The info provided on the old "Info" tab. Manage Auto-Rewards: View and update your Auto-Rewards from one page. Manage Item Aliases: Create, edit or transfer Item Aliases. Manage Passkeys: View and update all the Passkeys on your items. Summary Stats: An overview of your item statistics.Most of these areas are still linked from other navigation menus. Creating this new "My Portfolio" tab allows us to keep them in an extra convenient location. New Tool: Item Edit Logs Linked from the new Tools tab of your My Portfolio area, this log stores all data from Item Edits. Available to all members, (with any level of membership), Item Edit Logs can be viewed by both item owners as well as members with Group Edit Access to a particular item. Log entries for each edit list all the details and settings at time of edit completion. This information includes the item's title, description, access restrictions, passkey, auto-reward amount and much more. The edit log is a handy tool for groups using our Group Edit Access feature. The log shows members of the group with edit access who's edited an item, when and all the details as stored by the edit. To view the log of a group edit item, visit your own "Item Edit Logs" page and enter the item ID in the form field found just below your logs. A few important notes: Member accessible "Item Edit" logs began storing data on July 6th, 2008. Edit logs do not include changes to an Item's main content as that is provided to Premium+ Members via the RCS feature linked from their items. New: New Window Icons As you may have noticed... We've been adding "New Window" icons to the various WritingML links and areas throughout Writing.Com. This change allows everyone to choose for themselves whether to open their links in the same window (by clicking on the text) or in a new window (by clicking on the icon). We'll be adding these icons to more areas as time goes on. Update: Review Return Mail and cNote Replies The review system's "Return Mail" feature, which allows members to reply to a review within the review email, has been updated with better integration into the new email system. Replying to a review now stays within the same window and acts as a normal email reply. The review email is marked as "Replied To" and a copy of the reply is stored in your email Sent-Mail folder. The same is now true for replies to cNotes through the cNote reply form. Rather than be emailed a copy and confirmation of your reply, the cNote is marked as "Replied To" and a copy of your response is stored in your email Sent-Mail folder. Summer Costumicon Subscriptions Still Available! Costumicon subscriptions are available for purchase! This subscription will last through noon on July 20th, 2008. Subscribe to or change your current Costumicon from the "My Account" area or directly at: http://www.Writing.com/main/my_account/view/costumicons As usual, you can preview any of the larger portfolio images by mousing over or clicking on the small image within the Costumicons Store. Don't Forget: You can gift Costumicons to your fellow members and friends! To send a gifted subscription, head to you My Gifts Points page: http://www.Writing.Com/main/my_gifts#spend |
The following winners for the May 2008 running of "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 24 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First: "The Light of Savannah" by kiyasama Second: "Invalid Item" by M. R. K Third: "Little Jamey" by JACE  Thanks to everyone who entered! Special thanks to our judges, as well as Diane , our contest coordinator.~~ SM |
| New "Hide" WritingML Tagset The new {hide} {/hide} WritingML tagset allows you to "hide" text within your items. This is a handy tool for keeping notes within your items that only you or someone else with edit access can see. Since group members with edit access can see text within the Hide tags while editing an item, this new WritingML should come in handy for members working together to manage group items and events. For example: Row Row Row your Boat... {hide}Note to self: Change this line.{/hide} Will show as: Row Row Row your Boat... |
| New "My Portfolio" Tools We've upgraded the "My Portfolio" area with additional navigation and great new tools! The new links on each page of the portfolio area provide easy access to add a new item, find more detailed information about your portfolio, access your portfolio folders, a new tool to search your entire portfolio and a tab to change settings for your portfolio. New: Portfolio Highlighting A few months ago, we changed the portfolio system to highlight private items within the "My Portfolio" area with a pinkish color. Now we've expanded this concept to give you much more control and a whole new tool! From within the new "Settings" tab of "My Portfolio", you can access the Portfolio Highlighing area to create highlights. Specify which items to highlight in your private portfolio view based on their access restrictions, text found in the title or brief description, by primary genre of the item or any combination! Choose the background color for the portfolio cell and the text color shown in the title area. |
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