Hi, and welcome to Mediamatic! On the Mediamatic website, you can maintain a personal profile and connect with your friends. You can share announcements for (your) events or parties. You can register for other events, and collect items that you like. Mediamatic is a great place, and we're glad that you are here.
Also have a look at Part Two of these instructions or have a look at our Frequently Asked Questions.
How to register
Registering is easy. All you have to do is fill out your name and email address on the Register page. This will automatically generate your profile page.
How to make your profile
Once you have registered, you can add some extra information to your profile. You can edit your profile by clicking the edit this page button on the top left hand corner of your profile page.
You can add a portrait to your profile by uploading an image. You can write a short description of yourself. You can also select some keywords that describe you, which will help Mediamatic present you with more tailored content.
You can also add some extra contact information to your profile. Mediamatic will display the address information that you fill in. Automatically, it will show the email address which you have registered with. If you do not want your email address displayed, you can edit your profile and remove your email address from your contact information.
You can add places that you've lived. Type one place that you have lived in the search box. The system will search for a place that matches what you have typed.
If none appear, you have lived in a place that does not yet exist in the system. In that case, click + location. If you have lived in more than one place, repeat this process until you have included all the places you want.
You can also include the organizations that you work(ed) for in your profile. To do this, go to the page of the organization that you work(ed) for by searching for it. On this page you will see a button called works for. If you have worked for this organization, you can connect there.
If your organization is not in the system, you can add a new one. To do this, see the section on How to make a contribution.
How to collect things you like
All the pages on the Mediamatic.net site have the button I like it. If you click this button, you will be featured on the page of the thing that you like, and the thing you like will be shown on your profile page.
How to make friends
Once you have made your profile, you can start connecting with friends. You can connect with friends by clicking on add as a contact on their profile pages. You can search for friends using the search field in the upper right hand corner of the page.
Trust settings
Once you find a friend that you want to connect with, you can choose between adding him as a contact, and adding him as a friend. The difference between the two groups lays in the trust settings. If you make an item on the site, you may only want to display it to your close friends, or only to people you know, or to everyone.
If you do not edit your trust settings, all you items will be visible to everyone by default. If you change your trust settings to friends only or only people I know it will only show your items to your friends or your friends and contacts, respectively.
How to make a contribution
Once you have registered on the Mediamatic site, you can start adding content. Perhaps you are organizing a conference, exhibition or party, and would like to add it to the calendar. Or perhaps you have started a new cultural institution, and you would like to make a description page.
Event
If you would like to add an event to the calendar, first check if it does not exist already. If not, click new contribution on the top left hand corner of the page. Then you can select event.
Events need to be either located in or organized by at least one organization. Once you have added an organization, you can add a date when the event will take place. If you do not add a date, the event will not show up in the calendar.
You can add actors to your events. Actors could for instance be participating artists. To add an actor click the + actor button and type the name of the actor. The system will try to find the actor.
If the system cannot find him, you can make a new person by clicking + person. Try to make sure you spell the person's name correctly.
Finally you can add keywords and tags to your events. This helps your event show up at places on the website that are relevant. For instance, if you have an event about architecture and Rem Koolhaas, you can add the keyword Architecture and connect Rem Koolhaas as an actor.
Organization
If you would like to add an organization, first check if it does not exist already. If not, click new contribution on the top left hand corner of the page. There you can select organization.
Then you can give your organization a title, and some text. It is best if you add the address and URL of the organization you are creating. This way, people will be able to find your organization if it lays in the vicinity of their residence.
After you've created your organization, you can connect to it by for instance the works for button.
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