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Getting Started

So you have joined up, welcome! The site can be a little daunting but this guide should give you a quick overview.

The home page is a sort of a brief summary of what is happening on newmediaminded. On the home page we will feature some of your content from time to time.

The Invite tab lets you easily find and invite your friends.

My Page is your personal profile and home. Here your friends activity is shown and your world is at your fingertips.

Internships and Industry are information menus, with details of the intern programs as well as lists of industry resources to help you.

Under the Tools menu you will find extended features. Did you know that you can load up images of your work, create your own events and you can event write your own blog.

The best thing to do is click around to all of the features and try stuff out. And if you get stuck then you can always post a forum entry in here.

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Permalink Reply by John Cookson on October 20, 2008 at 5:26pm: I've loaded a jpeg pic to my profile but it didn't get put up. Is there a time lag do we think?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Cookson on October 20, 2008 at 6:06pm: It's OK everyone! Relax, the photo is there.......heeellllllllloooo anyone home?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CBS Interactive on October 20, 2008 at 7:21pm: Hi John, yes I see the pic loaded. I think that you are right sometimes there is a small delay while things get processed on the back end. Welcome!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eddie Lee on October 25, 2008 at 8:09am: Nice Bike.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eddie Lee on October 26, 2008 at 1:29am: test; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Cookson on October 22, 2008 at 11:31am: Hi, the pull down menu for internships disappears behind the 'featured members' - layering problem. Cheers JC; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Murray on October 22, 2008 at 12:12pm: ive had the same problem with the Internship Menu. it is hard to access the bottom links off of some pages. like some of the other Internship pages.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Cookson on October 22, 2008 at 11:33am: Hi again, you probably want to check some of the layering on other tools.. going out to chat is ok but coming back the menu is covered. cheers Jc; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CBS Interactive on October 22, 2008 at 5:48pm: Hello All,

Can you tell me what web browser you are all using? It sounds like a version issue, we are using the site in Firefox 3 and Safari here with no problem.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Cookson on October 23, 2008 at 10:08am: Would you believe IE and igoogle; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CBS Interactive on October 23, 2008 at 1:31pm: Ahh, I will need to check on this, I think that IE is so down the list, I will report it, igoogle is a different story I doubt the developers considered that. Given the way it embeds the frames.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Cookson on November 4, 2008 at 5:59pm: Thanks, I"ve been travelling for the last week. Doesn't look like too much interaction or participation in this site? I'm going down to Melbourne next week for the Digital Marketing seminar so will aim to share the learnings.; ▶ Reply to This

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