Status update tips and tricks
Status updates let you interact with others in the community. You can also delete your own updates, see who liked them, see other people's updates, and several other activities.
Interacting with others from status updates : Comment on, share, follow, or repost a status update by clicking any of these commands in the footer of yours or other user's update.
Limiting your status update to specific groups : Share your update with only a specific group by clicking Change beneath the status box, and then selecting the group before you post. When you post a status update to a group, only members and followers of that group can see the update in their attention streams. If the Activity page of the group includes Recent Activity tile, the status update is displayed there as well.
Posting a status update
To post a status update:
- In the main navigation menu, click
and then click Status Update. - In the Post a status update dialog box, type your status. You can post an update by typing a brief update in the What's going on? box at the top of any stream. This can include a quick note about what you're doing right now, such as "Loved the company pizza at lunch today. Thanks, @HR team!" or "Slogging through the #TPS #report. Ugh!"
- Next to Post in, select a place where you want to post the update. Click Post to save and publish your status update.
Adding multimedia elements
: You can include images, links, or YouTube video links in your status updates. To insert an image, click the upload image icon, select the image, and click Post. For links, type the URL in the designated field, ensuring to start with http://, then click Add. If you type the URL directly in the post box and wait, a thumbnail may populate.
Adding @mentions : Use an @mention in your status update to call out specific people, which ensures they see your update in their Inbox.
Deleting your status update : Delete your own update by going to your Inbox and clicking on the time stamp in the update (for example, "posted 2 hours ago"). From the permalink page, click Delete. Alternatively, you can delete an update by going to your user profile and clicking Activity > Status Updates. From there, click the update's time stamp, and then Delete.
Seeing who liked your status update : Click the number next to Like in your status update to see the people who liked it.
Using tags in your status updates : Insert one or more tags in your update by preceding keywords with a hash or pound sign (#) so that you and others can find the update more easily later. For more information, see Using tags.
Filtering by status updates : Filter any of your attention streams by selecting Filter > Status Updates.
Seeing someone else's status updates : Click a person's avatar or name from any of your attention streams, or search for the person from the People finder or Spotlight search. Click on the person's name to go to their profile page, and then click Activity > Status Updates.