Minggl™

Minggl User Guide

• Installing Minggl
• Introducing the Minggl Toolbar and Minggl Box
• Viewing Minggl Notes on supported sites
• Using Your Multi-Site Friends List
• Managing Your Social Networking Profiles
• Creating Your Own Minggl Notes
• Using Minggl in Multiple Browsers
• Uninstalling Minggl

Installing and Configuring Minggl

To install Minggl, please follow the steps below. If you are unable to complete installation, feel free to contact us at support@Minggl.com for additional assistance.

Step 0: Invitation

Minggl is currently available by invitation only. If you have not received an invitation and would like one, please request one online.

Step 1: Registration

1. Open your email invitation and click the link provided.
2. Alternatively, you can visit "Registration Start" and paste the invitation code
3. Choose your Minggl username and complete the registration form.

Step 2: Download and Installation

1. After you've completed the basic registration process, you'll have the option to choose your preferred Minggl installer (currently Minggl is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Flock on Microsoft Windows).
2. Click the link corresponding to your preferred browser/platform.
3. Run the installer to install Minggl. Follow the prompts, you'll be asked to close your browser. Once the installer has finished your browser will restart.

Step 3: Configuration

1. Minggl is running when its toolbar is visible at the top of your browser. If you don't see Minggl in the toolbar area, select
   View » Toolbars » Minggl Toolbar
   from the browser "View" menu, and place a check next to Minggl
2. If you are not yet signed in to Minggl you will see a "Ready to Minggl" button in the toolbar. Click that button and enter the Minggl username and password you assigned yourself during registration.
3. To get the most out of Minggl, you will need to associate social networking profiles with your Minggl account. Once you are signed in, select "Profiles" within the main Minggl menu.
4. To associate a new profile with your Minggl account, select the social networking site's name and click the "Add Profile" button. Enter your profile's username and password along with an optional profile description to complete the form. After each profile is added, it will be displayed in a list on your Profiles page. You may add as many as you wish or may disassociate a profile at any time. Click here to watch a YouTube tutorial that demonstrates "Attaching a Profile".

Now you're ready to Minggl! Refer to the remaining sections of the installation manual for information on how to use and get the most out of Minggl.

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Introducing the Minggl Toolbar and Minggl Box

Minggl Toolbar

1. Shortcut to www.Minggl.com
2. "Site/Profile Selection" Menu (auto selects button #4 when selected)
3. "Navigate to Home Page" Button
4. "Navigate to Profile Page" Button
5. "Navigate to Inbox" Button
6. "Navigate to Contacts Page" Button
7. "Show/Hide Multi-Site Friends List" Button
   also contains advanced features under the drop list
8. "Site Supported/Unsupported" Indicator
9. "Settings Panel" drop down list
10. "Show/Hide Minggl Note(s)" Button

Note: The behavior of the profile-related buttons will reflect the social networking site selected in the "Site/Profile Selection" menu. For example, when a MySpace profile is selected, the buttons will navigate to various pages within MySpace. When a Facebook profile is selected, the buttons will navigate to various pages within Facebook. We have a tutorial video here!

Minggl Box

While viewing a profile page on a supported social networking site, such as MySpace or Facebook, the Minggl Social Palette will be visible in the upper right corner of your browser. Click its links to add Minggl Notes to your profile, add a person to your Multi-Site Friends List, and to enter a password (if you know one) to view another person's private mNotes.

 

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Viewing Other People's Minggl Notes (mNotes)

Browse profiles on MySpace or Facebook as you normally would. While viewing a profile page on a supported social networking site, such as MySpace or Facebook, the Minggl Social Palette will be visible in the upper right corner of your browser. Anytime you visit the profile page of another Minggl user, there are several possibilities:

• If the page owner has created "public" Minggl Notes, they will automatically become visible to all Minggl users once the page has completed loading.
• A person's "private password-protected" Minggl Notes can only be displayed by entering the correct password(s). If you know their password(s), click the "View Minggl Note(s)" link within the Minggl Social Palette.
• If the page owner has restricted mNote visibility by attaching it to an "Attribute" (not password) filter, then you will only see (automatically) that mNote if you possess that "Tag" or attribute in the Minggl database.

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Using Your Multi-Site Friend List (MSFL)

Minggl enables you to manage all of your friends' contact information, regardless of which supported social network they're from, in one place via the Multi-Site Friends List.

To add a person to your Multi-Site Friends List:

1. Navigate to the MySpace or Facebook profile of the person you wish to add.
2. Click the "Add to Multi-Site Friends List" link within the Minggl Social Palette at the upper right corner of your browser.
3. Feel free to enter tags associated with this person. Note: Tags often help you more easily search through your contacts at a later time.
4. Click the "Add New Person" button to complete the process.

To display your Multi-Site Friends List in your browser sidebar, click the button on the toolbar.

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Managing Your Profiles (Social Networking) Associated with Minggl

Use the profile buttons (to the right of the Site/Profile selection menu--#4) on the Minggl toolbar to easily logon and navigate to various pages within your social networking profiles. Note: The behavior of the profile-related toolbar buttons will reflect the social networking site selected in the "Site/Profile Selection" menu. For example, when a MySpace profile is selected, the buttons will navigate to various pages within MySpace. When a Facebook profile is selected, the buttons will navigate to various pages within Facebook.

To associate a profile with your Minggl account:

1. Click the "Profiles" item within the main Minggl menu or the "Add Profile" item within the "Site/Profile Selection" menu.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process or watch the demonstration video hosted here!

To switch between your profiles:

1. Select a site/profile from the "Site/Profile Selection" menu on the Minggl Toolbar. The optional description you entered during profile attachment is displayed in this drop down list.
2. You can change your profile description/alias by selecting "Profile Settings" from the main Minggl toolbar menu.

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Creating Your Own Minggl Notes

Minggl Notes can contain text, HTML, music, movies or widgets (anything allowed on a normal web page) and can be added to your profile pages at any supported Website. Once you put personal information into private Minggl Notes, only authenticated users, running a Minggl-enabled browser, will be able to see it. People without Minggl, and people without your password(s), won't even know that this extra information is on your profile. Public Minggl Notes, those without filter restrictions (password or attributes), are viewable by all Minggl users. Minggl currently supports MySpace and Facebook, but we'll be adding lots of new sites very soon. If you have a social site you'd like supported by Minggl, you can submitt that URL here!

Note: Minggl is community-policed. Every Minggl Note contains a "Flag as Offensive" button. If multiple users flag a particular piece of content as offensive, then that content will be automatically hidden until it can be reviewed. If you would like to post content that may be considered offensive by some, password protect it and give that password only to like-minded friends. Remember, at no time is it OK to post pornographic, hate-based, illegal, copyrighted, and/or other offensive content using Minggl. Minggl reserves the right to delete Minggl Notes if/when they have been flagged by the community as offensive. At Minggl's discretion, users who repeatedly violate the standards of their community may also have their account deleted or disabled.

To add a Minggl Note to your profile page:

1. Select the site/profile to which you would like to add a Minggl Note from the "Site/Profile Selection" menu in the Minggl Toolbar.
2. Click the button to login and be automatically taken to your profile page.
3. Click the "Add Minggl Note" link on the Minggl Social Palette at the upper right corner of your browser. This will open the editor.
4. Create your Minggl Note using whatever combination of text, HTML, images, sounds, and/or movies you prefer. If you would like it to be viewable by all Minggl users, do not associate it with a filter. If you wish to control who sees your Minggl Notes, then you should associate them with a filter. A filter can be password based, attribute based or both.
5. Once a Minggl Note is created and published, the editor window will close and your new Minggl Note will be displayed on your profile page floating above your profile's content. At any time you can move your Minggl Note around the page by dragging it by its title bar to a point of your choosing. Drag it to a Minggl anchor point to drop it "inline" so it appears within the rest of the content of your profile page. Alternatively, drag and drop it at any other point on your profile where it will "float" on top of your profile's content. Note: Please do not cover any advertisements on the underlying social networking site as this might constitute a breach of your agreement with them.

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Using Minggl in Multiple Browsers

Minggl supports the use of more than one browser. This support includes using Minggl with two different browsers on one machine (for example, using Firefox and Internet Explorer on the same computer) as well as using one or more browsers on different computers (for example, using Minggl on both your home and office computers).

To install Minggl in multiple browsers or on multiple computers:

1. Register ONLY ONCE to create a single Minggl account.
2. You will use the SAME Minggl account to log into Minggl from all browsers and computers so DO NOT re-register or you'll loose a lot of Minggl productivity advantages.
3. If Minggl is already installed in one browser (ie after your Minggl account has been created), launch the new browser (the one to install next) and navigate to the Download Page.
4. Choose the proper installer for the CURRENT browser. Following installation, you'll be asked to restart your browser.
5. Click the "Ready to Minggl" button in the Minggl Toolbar and sign-in with your existing Minggl username and password. You can login to Minggl repeatedly from different computers or browsers with the same Minggl account details.

If you plan to use Minggl with more than one browser, please be aware of the following:

• Installers will ONLY run automatically when the installer and browser match. For best results, install "Minggl IE for Windows" from Internet Explorer or install "Minggl Firefox or Flock for Windows" from Firefox or Flock.
• Each browser typically stores its cookies in different locations, so you will need to sign-in from each browser the first time. After that, Minggl will remember who you are and sign you in automatically every time you restart your browser.
• Once signed-in to your Minggl account (you didn't create two did you?) from any Minggl enabled browser, your profiles, Minggl Notes, filters and Multi-Site Friend List are all accessible. All profiles attached to your account will be active regardless of the browser you are using.

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Uninstalling Minggl

If at any time you would like to uninstall Minggl, follow the steps below:

Internet Explorer

1. Click START » All Programs
2. Locate the Minggl Folder
3. Run Uninstall Minggl

Firefox/Flock

1. Open Firefox/Flock
2. Click Tools » Extensions
3. Select the Minggl item and click Uninstall

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