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Quick Posts are another Genwi feature that you probably were unaware existed. They are also one of the more social elements(besides sharing) that help make Genwi useful. Quick Posts are exactly what they sound like – a quick way to post something to Genwi.

Quick Post is available when you login from the Wire page. It is located in the footer – hey maybe that’s why you never saw it before! The footer bar features an input text field and a button that says ‘Quick Post.’ When you want to make a Quick Post simply type something into the input text box and click on the button.

Quick Post is available from the footer when you login to your account

Now you might wonder what happens to the Quick Post you just made. Quick Posts show up in several places. First, it will show up in your activity feed. If you maintain a public profile – this means anybody can see it. If you maintain a private profile – the Quick Post is only visible to friends. Most importantly, when your friends and followers login, they can see your Quick Post in their Wires. In fact, they can filter down to only view Quick Posts.

Haboo Quick Posted that he likes the new foreign language support

Quick Posts are useful when you want to share an update instead of sharing content from your Wire. They are a good way to post anything that is on your mind or your status and instantly let all of your friends and followers know what you are thinking.

One of the advantages of using Genwi is the ability to share everything you want with your friends in one place. Genwi makes sharing super simple. One of our core beliefs is that people you know will have better things to share with you than the picks made by a computer. We built Genwi to enable people to sort out what matters from within the sea of available content. The most direct way to find good content is to share it amongst friends.

When you click ‘share’ on the footer of every item, an overlay appears with all of your friends. You can select all friends or select individual friends. Click ‘share’ after selecting and now the item has been shared with the friends you selected. This eliminates emailing links to friends and puts all of the content friends share with each other in one place. That is how simple sharing is on Genwi.

Share overlay enables selecting friends

To browse the items your friends have shared with you, simply log in to Genwi. Shared items will always appear in your Wire. You can use the left hand menu to filter your Wire to only show shared items. This way you can browse all of the items your friends have shared in one ‘river of news.’

Another great feature about sharing on Genwi is the ability to send a message with the items you share. When you are selecting friends in the share overlay, you can click ‘add message,’ below the friends list. Add message takes you to a message box where you can type your message that you want to share with the item. When your friends view the item in their Wire, they will see your message in a blue box below the item. They can reply directly to you. You will get their replies in your Inbox, and you will see a new message alert.

Sending messages with shared items is a great way to share

Finally, when it comes to managing your shared items Genwi makes that easy too. When you click on Favorites in the header, we have all of the items you’ve shared and that your friends have shared with you. You can browse all of them. This way you can see all of the items you have shared with friends. If you’d like to delete any items, simply click ‘remove’ next to any item. When you click ‘remove’ the shared item will no longer exist.

This post should inspire you to get your friends on Genwi if they’re not already. There is nothing nicer than seeing all the links to cool things your friends share in one place every morning.

We wanted to take the time to explain favorites. With a Genwi account, you can favorite items. Adding favorites is a great way to save things you like and share them with your friends.

When browsing items on Genwi – there is a ‘favorite’ link in the footer. Clicking this link opens up an overlay screen with several options. The options allow you to choose between storing the favorite in a default folder – simply called ‘favorites,’ or creating a new folder – called ‘Collections.’ If you choose to create a new Collection you can call it whatever you like and control its privacy settings independently. Collections are a great way to organize favorites into meaningful categories. With favorites and Collections you can use them to organize things you want to use later or to share with others.

Adding an item to favorites

Favorites, by default, show up on your profile. Depending on your profile’s privacy, they are either visible to everyone or friends only. When your followers login to their Wires, they will see your most recent favorite. They can also select ‘friends’ favorites’ from the left hand menu to browse all of their friends’ favorites. This is how friends can use favorites to share cool new things with each other. You can also browse friends’ favorites directly from their profiles by clicking on the favorites tab. This tab will also contain a drop down menu with collection names. Selecting a Collection will take you directly to that Collection.

You can make Collections either public or private. If they are public, they’ll show up on your profile. If they’re private, only you can see them. By making public collections, you can create very topic oriented Collections to share with others. This is a great way of aggregating related items from different sources. You can help others discover the great items you’ve collected around any topic or theme.

The favorites tab on the header will help you find and manage your favorites. In the header, you can select ‘favorites,’ and browse all of your favorites, friends’ favorites and shared items. Managing favorites is easy too. The favorites page let’s you edit and delete all of your favorites in one place. You can edit Collections as well as create new ones. In order to edit a Collection, select the collection from the left hand menu. Once selected a blue title bar will appear with a link to edit the collection. This link will help you edit the name, details and privacy of the Collection.

That is favorites. They are a great way to organize and share all the great activity on Genwi.