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February 3, 2015 By Ryan Nelson   |  

How to Change Your Notification Settings

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When you create a new Faithlife account and join a group, by default you’ll receive an email when someone posts to the group, sends you a message, starts a new discussion, and more. You can see a complete list of notifications when you edit your profile and go to the notifications tab.

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(“Posting & Messages” is one category of notifications. Be sure to check each category.)

Next to each type of notification you’ll see “Edit per group settings.” This lets you choose which groups you’ll receive emails about, and which groups you’ll only see in the app and online.
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Click the drop down arrows on the left to see all types of notifications, or use the check boxes on the right to change settings for everything at once.

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Say, for example, you’re in a group led by your pastor, and he posts devotional thoughts once a week. You might want to receive email notifications when your pastor shares something new. Your small group, however, posts multiple times per day, so email notifications might not be as urgent.

There’s also another option:

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If you still want to know everything that’s going on, you can adjust the frequency that you receive email notifications. These settings apply after you indicate what you would like to receive email notifications for. If you change all your notification settings to “notification,” then this option won’t matter. If, however, you have a particularly active small group or ministry team and you want to receive email updates about what’s going on without filling your inbox, you can set this to daily or weekly digest to stay in the loop.

Create your Faithlife account today, or tell your friends and family about email notifications, so they can follow along with your Faithlife Groups.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: faithlife groups, tutorial

January 24, 2015 By Ryan Nelson   |  

Customize Your Faithlife Group

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There are lots of ways to use Faithlife Groups. Your worship team could use one. Your family could use another. Maybe you want a massive collection of insight. Maybe you want to make a group centered on prayer. Or a reading plan. Or a topic.

However you use your Faithlife Group, you can customize it to meet your needs.

Go to “Group settings,” found on the right side of your group:

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Under “About Your Group,” you’ll find a section for page tabs. It lists all of the tabs your group includes (or could include), and by checking the boxes, you add or remove tabs from your group’s navigation. If your group only uses one or two tabs, consider removing the ones you don’t use. That way it’s clear where the action is when people join your group.

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In “Group Permissions,” you can adjust the settings to determine who can use what features and in what ways.

For example, if you have a specific curriculum you want to share with your group, you probably don’t want your documents tab to be a free-for-all. Adjust the control so that anyone can connect to your documents, but only moderators and admins can share new documents:

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You can customize your group’s permissions for the news feed, calendar, documents, reading plans, prayer lists, Community Notes, newsletters, photos, and more.

Don’t forget to play with your group’s sidebar. The sidebar floats to the right of your group, even when you change tabs. This is a great place to provide supplemental links and media, like your church’s Twitter feed, or our free Verse of the Day images. You can include podcasts or blogs you want your group to read or listen to regularly, Community Notes or prayer lists from the group, and more.

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Customize your Faithlife Group today. Or, start a new one and invite your friends.

Filed Under: Online Community Tagged With: tutorial

December 2, 2014 By Ryan Nelson   |  

How to Create Community Notes

The Community Notes feature is a powerful Bible study tool that’s built into the Faithlife Study Bible, Logos Bible Software, and Faithlife Groups.

They’re kind of like margin notes, only better.

When you write Community Notes, you decide who gets to see them. You can post them directly to one of your Faithlife Groups, or don’t select a group, and share them to “My Faithlife,” so all your connections can see them.

Community Notes sync across all of Faithlife’s Bible applications. That means you can make them on Bible.Faithlife.com and Biblia.com, in Logos Bible Software, and the Logos and FSB apps. Once you’ve made a note, you can see it from anywhere.

Depending on where you choose to get into the Word, making Community Notes looks a little different.

Make one in the mobile app

Here’s how to make Community Notes using the Faithlife Study Bible mobile app:

Make one on the web

Hop over to Bible.Faithlife.com or Biblia.com and follow these three easy steps to create a new note:

1. Find the passage you want

Enter the passage in the search field. If you want to make a note on the entire chapter of John 2, just type John 2; if you want to comment on a specific passage or verse, like John 2:11, enter the specific passage in the search field. The Community Note you create will attach itself to the passage in your search field—even when you change translations!

2. Go to the “notes” section and click this icon:

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Whether you’re on Biblia.com or Bible.Faithlife.com, the notes section is the tab on the right, outlined in the red box above. To create a new note, click the icon indicated by the red arrow above.

3. Choose a Faithlife Group, write a note, and click “post”

Right below the passage you’ve selected, a drop-down menu lets you select from all of your Faithlife Groups. In the image above, I’ve selected the Community Study Bible: a user-created Faithlife Group that capitalizes on the potential of Community Notes.

You don’t have to be a biblical scholar or a pastor to create Community Notes. They’re for connecting what you know with who you know.

If you are a pastor, Community Notes can help you take better sermon notes.

Create a Community Note today! Find your favorite verse and share why it matters to you.

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Want to see Community Notes in action? Join the Community Study Bible group. Share notes or interact with the notes of others.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: community notes, faithlife groups, faithlife study bible, tutorial

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