Quick Guide
What’s this? What’s going on here?
This is The Nag platform, people helping people and making their world a better place. There’s lots of stuff in here, stuff you can see, do, and read about. It’s a bunch of people getting things off their chest and coming up with ideas that then get turned into actions that anyone can do.
How do i get started?
Jump straight in and submit your content if you like, or just have a browse at what other people have been saying. You’ll need to register to contribute your thoughts.
How do i get help?
Have a look to see if someone has had a similar problem/idea as you. You may find somebody has already found a solution. If not just post your stuff and we’ll email you when people respond.
Ok, done that, what next?
Why not have a look and see if there’s anything you fancy doing? Even if you don’t maybe one of your friends would, or maybe they could help? Why not invite them to become part of it? Once you’ve done something it’s always good to hear about it, so tell us the story of what you did.
Step by Step User Guide
The Homepage
Top Naggers / Recent Activity Ticker
Become a member
Logging Into Your Account
Forgotten Your password?
Your Account Details
Finding your content
Changing your Notifications
Posting Your Thought
Search for Other People’s Thoughts
Add your suggestions to other people’s thoughts
Follow and be kept up to date on what other people are saying about this
Invite others to join in
Talk about People’s Thoughts
Create an action for other people to do
Search for actions to do
The Action Page
How to feedback on the site and tell us what you’d like to see
Step 1:
The Homepage
Here’s where it all starts. From the homepage click ‘Get it off your chest’ and put up your thoughts, add your thoughts to other’s through suggestions, or if you’re in the mood to just get going, do something! You should find everything you need on this page to help you navigate through the site. Register first so you can add your own content and please feel free to tell us how to make the site better through feedback. It’s your site too.
Top Naggers / Recent Activity Ticker:
Our own magnificent seven, the site’s most active naggers are constantly displayed on the homepage for all to see to showcase their outstanding dedication! Underneath that you’ll find the most recent activity on the site in a ticker stream. Click on them to see what the latest naggers have to say.
Step 2:
Become a member
If your name’s not down you can’t come in. This is where you register to get your thoughts out and start nagging. We’ve tried to make signing up as painless as possible and get you nagging as fast as we can.
Step 3:
Logging Into Your Account
In case my mum’s using the site, we put this little helpful tip in. Enter your email address and password and click the ‘Sign In’ button. Easy peasy.
Forgotten Your password?
Click on the link and follow the instructions to re-set your password. Don’t worry, it happens to us all.
Your Account Details
This is where you can upload your avatar picture and change your personal details if you need to.
Finding your content
Once you’ve entered your thoughts, helped someone else out with a suggestion, or decided to do something, you can keep track of it all in the handy ‘My Content’ section. You can simply filter the specific content you wish to check and monitor all your nagging activity.
Changing your Notifications
Nobody likes receiving emails they haven’t asked for. Click the boxes here and control how The Nag informs you about activity on the site.
Step 4:
Posting Your Thought
Here’s where you get things off your chest. Choose a rant about something that has made you a cross, an idea for something brilliant, or a wish for something to change no matter how big or small. We’ve made it easy for you with a rich text editor and you can post a link to the rest of the interweb or scroll to the bottom and attach a file to help explain your point. Then click the big pink button and submit the thought to the crowd.
Step 5:
Search for Other People’s Thoughts
Here you’ll find the latest and most popular thoughts on The Nag. Search through them and find something that appeals to you and add your suggestion to make it better.
Step 6:
Add your suggestions to other people’s thoughts
Here’s where the crowd power starts. Once you find a thought that you like, add to it to help make it happen or improve the thinking through adding your own suggestion.
To enable a thought to turn into an action there may be a few suggestions to the original thought. In this case follow the thread of comments and make your own and if you’re ready to turn it into an action click the ‘Create an Action’ button.
Follow and be kept up to date on what other people are saying about this
Click the ‘Follow’ button if you like the thought and you’ll be notified by email whenever it’s updated through the crowd’s activity.
Invite others to join in
We all have pals that are brilliant at stuff. When you come across a thought and you know ‘a man/woman who can’ use this simple button to invite them onto The Nag so they can impart their wisdom.
Talk about People’s Thoughts
You might come across a thought that you don’t have a suggestion for, but you still want to make a comment about it. Click on the comment tab and have your say.
Step 7:
Create an action for other people to do
It’s action time! After following a thought and the crowd’s suggestions it’s time to turn it into an action. Once the button is clicked you come through to a nice dialogue box where you put in your title and details about what you’re going to do. By clicking on the symbols above, you can check on the original thought and the suggestion leading to your action. Once submitted other people can adopt this and you get to tell the story of what you did.
Step 8:
Search for actions to do
You might not be in the mood to think, just in the mood to do. Come straight to the actions page, see what people are doing and get stuck in.
Step 9:
The Action Page
Once you’ve identified an action you’ve decided to do, simply click ‘I’ll do it’. You also have the option at this stage of following the action or inviting someone who you think would be perfect for it.
From this page you can click the symbol above to see the initial thought or click the blue ‘Thought’ button to follow the thread.
Once you’ve clicked ‘I’ll do it’ you then have to go and do it! So the button will change to ‘I’ve done it’. Once you’ve done the action we’d love to hear about it and if you click ‘I’ve done it’ you get the opppurtunity to tell the crowd what you did and write a story about it.
Step 10:
How to feedback on the site and tell us what you’d like to see
The Nag is a crowd powered site and belongs to the community as much as it does to The Nag team. We’d love to make it better and we’d like your thought on how you think we could do that.
