Create an Account
- To create an account, click on the “Get Started!” button in the top right-hand corner.
- You can create a unique account on Speak.Share.Thrive. or create your username through Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, or Google.
- All information will be held privately by the Government of Alberta as per the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
- Posts, comments, and profile information will be removed by the site’s moderators if they do not meet the requirements regarding appropriate content (as found in the Terms and Conditions).
- Click on
icon at the top of the main page of the website. - Indicate who you are representing by choosing one of the following options:
- An elected or appointed head of an organization, please select “I am a designated representative of an organization.”
- A member of Alberta Human Services, please select “I work for the Government of Alberta.”
- Anyone else, please select “I am representing myself.” This applies to most people.
- Edit the required information, as noted by the (*).
- Read and initial the Terms and Conditions.
- Click the “Create Your Account” button.
- You will receive an email with a link to set up your password.
- Select a password and copy your Username and Password to a safe location.
- Click the “Save” button.
Login Using Your Social Media Account
- Go to the “Login” page by clicking Login at the top of the page.
- Click the “Sign in using one of these accounts" below the Orange Log in button.
- Select your supported host.
- Enter your Username and Password for that site.
- Click the login or allow button to give permission to the Government of Alberta page to interact with your account.
- Edit the required information, as noted by the (*).
- Read and initial the Terms and Conditions.
- Click the “Create Your Account” button.
- You will receive an email with a link to set up your password.
- Select a password and copy your Username and Password to a safe location.
- Click the “Save” button.
Editing and Maintaining Your Profile
Edit Your Profile
- Click the “My Account” link at the top of your screen.
- Select the “Edit” Tab. From here, you can:
- Add more information about yourself that will be shared with other members of the community.
- Upload a picture to accompany your interactions.
- Change your password.
- If you did not create your account using a social media account, you can still link them to your Speak. Share. Thrive. account. This will make it easier to share information.
- To do so:
- Click the “My Account” link at the top of your screen.
- Select the “Linked accounts” Tab.
- Click the “Add linked account” link.
- Select your account type.
- Enter your Username and Password.
- Allow the Government of Alberta page to interact with your account.
- If you ever want to remove Government of Alberta accessibility, you can remove your linked account by pressing the “Delete” button.
Information About Your Profile Page
Subscriptions Tab
After Subscribing to a file, you can manage your subscriptions through this tab.
- In this tab, you can:
- Sort by the type of file, title, or author.
- View how much activity has occurred since you subscribed.
- View when a file was last updated.
To halt notifications, select the "Unsubscribe" option.
- After you have chosen to follow a thread, you can manage what you are following through this tab.
- In this tab you can:
- Sort by file type, title, or author.
- View how much activity has occurred since you started following.
- View when a discussion last received a comment.
- Unsubscribe to remove the Follow from this list and halt notifications.
- Find the comments of other participants and when they posted their comments.
- The contribution tab will show all files that you have posted to the Library, including:
- Video
- Audio
- Documents
- Original Text
- The contribution tab will NOT show comments you have made on posts OR your comments on Discussion Boards.
- When making edits to a wiki, file, or blog, the document becomes “locked” so that only one person can make changes. This allows changes to be easily tracked.
- To view which files you currently have “locked”, you can view them in the "Locked" tab of your Profile.
- This is a list of the following activities:
- Change of account information.
- Updating of files.
- Creation of files.
- Comments on posts or discussion boards.
- Replies on posts or discussion boards.
- It will not list:
- Video that you have watched.
- Audio that you have played.
- Posts that you have read.
Social Policy Framework Basics
- For more information on what the Social Policy Framework is and how you can help, check out Social Policy Framework 101.
- A blog is a personal journal focusing on a specific topic. It contains multiple entries written by one person.
- By publishing it online, the community can access your opinions on a subject more easily.
- Posts are organized so that the newest post is always on top. This allows your followers to find new content quickly.
- Other users can comment directly below your post. This lets them ask questions, provide supporting opinions, or suggest contrasting points.
- Suggestions:
- Be Brief. People often do not want to read long, wordy posts from a single writer—they want to look at the opinions of multiple people in quick succession.
- Post Regularly. The easiest way to be more influential and gain more followers is by having a daily stream of new posts with new thoughts. The more you post, the more you (and everyone else) will get out of the experience.
- Invite a Guest. Invite a fellow blogger, friend, or colleague to make a guest post on a similar topic for your blog.
- Be Consistent. If you want to write on varying topics, you may want to start another blog. This will help your followers know what to expect from each blog.
- Be Sure. All posts are public, so please keep posts appropriate and representative of you.
- A Wiki is an open document that allows participants to work collaboratively to create a master document.
- Anyone can edit the Wiki page in order to tweak and modify the document.
- Changes that are viewed as inappropriate or offensive will be removed by the Wiki moderators.
- Suggestions:
- Have conversations before you edit the Wiki. The ultimate goal of the document is to satisfy all Albertans, so find support for your proposed changes before making them.
- Accept changes made by other participants. Your suggestions may be re-worded by someone else, and getting into a flurry of competing changes to the content is ultimately unproductive.
- When logged in, click the “Start Your Participation” button in the top right-hand corner.
- Click the “Video” button.
- Enter required information, as per the (*).
- A Short Description should be a basic explanation of your content.
- Select a Relevant Topic. This will help other users find your video.
- You can select multiple topics by holding the CTRL key.
- Click the “Select Media” button.
- Browse your computer for a video file. The video must be less than 80 MB.
- Preview or save your post by clicking the relative button at the bottom of the page. Selecting “Save” will post your media to the Library, while “Save and Continue” will allow you to save current changes and continue editing your post.
- When logged in, click the “Start Your Participation” button in the top right-hand corner.
- Click the “Audio” button.
- Enter required information, as per the (*).
- A Short Description should be a basic explanation of your content.
- Select a Relevant Topic. This will help other users find your audio file.
- You can select multiple topics by holding the CTRL key.
- Click the “Select Media” button.
- Browse your computer for an audio file. The clip must be less than 80 MB.
- Preview or save your post by clicking the relative button at the bottom of the page. Selecting “Save” will post your media to the Library, while “Save and Continue” will allow you to save current changes and continue editing your post.
- When logged in, click the “Start Your Participation” button in the top right-hand corner.
- Click the “Document” button.
- Enter required information, as per the (*).
- A Short Description should be a basic explanation of your content.
- Select a Relevant Topic. This will help other users find your document.
- You can select multiple topics by holding the CTRL key.
- Click the “Select Media” button.
- Browse your computer for a text, Excel, or Powerpoint file.
- Preview or save your post by clicking the relative button at the bottom of the page. Selecting “Save” will post your media to the Library, while “Save and Continue” will allow you to save current changes and continue editing your post.
Sharing Original Text/Web Documents
- When logged in, click the “Start Your Participation” button in the top right-hand corner.
- Click the “Original Text” button.
- Enter a Title for your text.
- Enter your content into the “Body” box. There are buttons within the "Body" box to help you with entering links or images.
- If copying text from Microsoft Word, use the “Copy from Word” button. This will prevent any formatting issues when switching mediums.
- Preview or save your post by clicking the relative button at the bottom of the page. Selecting “Save” will post your media to the Library, while “Save and Continue” will allow you to save current changes and continue editing your post.
- Select your post from the Library or the “Contribution” link at the top of the screen.
- Select the “Edit” tab in the top right-hand corner.
- Make the necessary changes.
- You may want to post in the “Revision Log.” This allows you to explain to other users why you modified your post.
- Preview or save your changes by selecting the relevant button.
- If you wish to return to a previous version of your document, select the “History” tab in the top right-hand corner.
- Find the version you would like to use, and select “Revert.”
- When you are editing the Wiki, the page “locks” to ensure that only one person is editing at a time. You can look in other user’s profiles to see which pages they have locked.
- First, you need to pick a page of the larger “book” to edit. Select one page from the Table of Contents.
- After selecting a page, you can edit the Wiki by selecting the “Edit” tab.
- If you would like to discuss the credibility of certain information or ask for outside opinions on potential changes, use the “Discuss” tab.
- To view previous versions of the Wiki and the changes made by other individuals, select the “History” tab to pull up an older version.
Interact
- If you would like to host a conversation in your community, you can use the tools provided in our Discussion Kit. The kit includes a discussion guide, marketing materials, and additional information on the engagement process. As of Novemer 16, 2012, community discussion grants are no longer available.
Others’ Content: The Library and Blogs
- There are two platforms other users can share information.
- The Library
- The Library is a collection of audio, video, and text files submitted by other users.
- You can search the files by Topic, Contributor, or Keywords.
- Blogs
- The Blog section contains blog posts by select users.
- If you have any concerns over content you have viewed, please contact us through the following form: http://socialpolicy.alberta.ca/contact
Using File Specific Discussion Boards
- After selecting a file, click the “Discussion” tab. This is where all conversation about a specific file should take place.
- To REPLY to another user’s comment, click the “Reply” link, in the bottom right-hand corner of the post.
- Enter your information to the appropriate fields.
- Save or preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- To CREATE your own comment, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your comment in the appropriate fields.
- Save or preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- After selecting a blog, scroll down to the bottom of the post you want to comment on.
- To REPLY to another user’s comment, click the “Reply” link, in the bottom right-hand corner of the post.
- Enter your information to the appropriate fields.
- Save or preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- To CREATE your own comment, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your comment in the appropriate fields.
- Save or preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- If you would like to discuss the content of the Wiki, you can do through the Discussion Tab.
- To reply to another user's comment, click the "Reply" link, in the bottom right corner of a post.
- Enter your information to the appropriate fields.
- Save or Preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- To create your own comment, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your comment in the appropriate fields.
- Save or Preview your post by clicking the appropriate button.
- If you do not include a subject, your comment will be duplicated in the subject field.
- If you would like to be notified of changes on a specific file, you can “Subscribe” to updates.
- Click the “Subscribe” link above the post.
- You will be periodically notified by email of changes that have occurred to your subscriptions.
- If you would like to remove a subscription, you can remove it via the email you received, or through the “Subscriptions” tab of your Profile.
- If you would like to be notified of changes to a discussion or blog, you can “Follow” the thread.
- Click the “Follow” tab at the top right-hand of the conversation.
- You will be notified by email of new posts or changes that have occurred.
- If you would like to stop following a thread, you can remove it via the email you received, or through the “Follow” tab of your Profile.
- Click the “Subscribe” link above the post.
- To share a post, find the “Share” button directly beneath the original post.
- Select the social media platform you want to share the post on.
- If you have already linked your accounts, clicking “Publish” will post a link to all your social media accounts simultaneously.
- If you do not wish to share the post on one of your linked accounts, click the icon before pressing publish. The icon should change from coloured to gray.
- If you have not yet linked a social media account, select the icon for the account you would like to add.
Fill out your social media provider’s permission form, then click “Publish.”
- By clicking the “Participants” link in the Main Menu, you can see the contributors to the website.
- From here, you can also find the profiles of all members and learn more about our contributors.
- By clicking on another user’s name or profile picture, you can see the following information about the user:
- Who the user actually is, who they work for, and what their current position is. You can also see any extra information they elected to share.
- What files the user has contributed to the Library and the user’s Blog(s).
- A total history of that user’s activities.
All Recent Changes
- Click “All Recent Changes” in the left toolbar.
- Click the “All Changes” tab.
- Sort by document type (if you are searching for something specific), or scroll through the list to see the most recent changes in each category.
Privacy
Privacy Guidelines and Terms
• To view the privacy terms and conditions of this site, click the following link: http://socialpolicy.alberta.ca/Terms_Conditions
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