This is my Get-Pushed photo in answer to my assignment this week; "Focus on Shadows" from sue @suez1e . I like the pattern the railing makes, and Dachshund silhouettes are iconic, in my opinion.
@theredcamera
Do not worry about that! I have all the instructions on a Word Document that I keep handy for members just like you! I will send it to you when you do win!
The first time is always the worst, but it really is not that difficult!
Congrats on winning! It's a great shot!
I will send a detailed how to do this for you tomorrow or Sunday.
You have a couple of days to bask in the glory before having to worry about setting up the voting!
Elena
The process of creating a voting discussion is quite easy actually and just involves much copy and pasting to a Word Document of some sort.
First, choose your finalists – can be 4, 5, or 6 – there is no rule as to how many or few you choose. Your challenge, your rules! I do try to comment on everyone’s entry while choosing the finalists but if you do not have the time, so be it. Again, your challenge, your rules.
As for choosing finalists, you can use any criteria you wish. Technically, ascetically, first timers you want to encourage, just because you want to, anything goes. You can mention why you chose it, but most people do not.
Once you have selected your finalists, open a word doc that you want to copy and paste to, click on your first finalist (can be in any order you so choose), type out their name and @name, open the embed code by clicking on the right arrow found to the right of the FAV’s star. Copy the whole embed code – it is long! – and paste below the name and @name on your word doc. (I find it amazing when the embed code turns into a photo when you up load it.)
Repeat for all finalists. Do not forget to put numbers in front of their names for ease of voting. (and I have on occasion until someone mentions it during voting)
You can add a bit of introduction at the beginning of your word doc thanking everyone, and mentioning when voting ends, etc.
Now, go to Discuss under the task bar on top, click on it, click on Themes and Discussions, and open a New Topic on the top of the page.
Copy your whole word document and insert onto the New Topic, title the page, and click done (at least I think it says done).
Don’t worry if you have messed up because you can go back and edit anything in your new topic except the title (so don’t mess up the title – lol!)
Then – sit back and relax. Tally the votes when it is over, and announce the new winner. Tah-dah!! Yer dun!
@farmreporter Thanks so much for the instructions on Hosting the Get-Pushed. I guess I need to use the tags people have put on their photos to know who is participating? Where do I pull up that info? And, the exercise finishes up at mid-night Sunday the 24th, so I would start this process on Monday morning?
@theredcamera You can see who is participating in two ways.
First - click on the get-pushed-407 tag with your own photo that you have entered into this week's challenge or second - under there is a 'By tag' search button under Browse in the menu on top. Enter your get-pushed-407 tag there to see all the entries for this week.
You can click on each one of them t get a better look at them, comment on each one if you wish, etc.
Then hit to return arrow to go back to the page with all the entries. Back and forth, back and forth until you have seen all of them.
You are lucky. There is not usually a whole bunch to view with this challenge!
Good luck. I will be close by my computer if you need any more help.
@theredcamera
By the way - you won challenge 406 which ended on the 10th, so you are host of 407 which ended on Sunday, May 17th.
So ... lucky you - you get to do this task this week, anytime now. Keep the voting fairly short and you can count the votes anytime - usually Saturday or Sunday.
@farmreporter Okay, confusion abounds, but glad you're patient. I'll get on this this afternoon, as it may take me a few tries. Thanks for your replies.
May 19th, 2020
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Congratulations on being short-listed for the get pushed challenge!
Do not worry about that! I have all the instructions on a Word Document that I keep handy for members just like you! I will send it to you when you do win!
The first time is always the worst, but it really is not that difficult!
I will send a detailed how to do this for you tomorrow or Sunday.
You have a couple of days to bask in the glory before having to worry about setting up the voting!
The process of creating a voting discussion is quite easy actually and just involves much copy and pasting to a Word Document of some sort.
First, choose your finalists – can be 4, 5, or 6 – there is no rule as to how many or few you choose. Your challenge, your rules! I do try to comment on everyone’s entry while choosing the finalists but if you do not have the time, so be it. Again, your challenge, your rules.
As for choosing finalists, you can use any criteria you wish. Technically, ascetically, first timers you want to encourage, just because you want to, anything goes. You can mention why you chose it, but most people do not.
Once you have selected your finalists, open a word doc that you want to copy and paste to, click on your first finalist (can be in any order you so choose), type out their name and @name, open the embed code by clicking on the right arrow found to the right of the FAV’s star. Copy the whole embed code – it is long! – and paste below the name and @name on your word doc. (I find it amazing when the embed code turns into a photo when you up load it.)
Repeat for all finalists. Do not forget to put numbers in front of their names for ease of voting. (and I have on occasion until someone mentions it during voting)
You can add a bit of introduction at the beginning of your word doc thanking everyone, and mentioning when voting ends, etc.
Now, go to Discuss under the task bar on top, click on it, click on Themes and Discussions, and open a New Topic on the top of the page.
Copy your whole word document and insert onto the New Topic, title the page, and click done (at least I think it says done).
Don’t worry if you have messed up because you can go back and edit anything in your new topic except the title (so don’t mess up the title – lol!)
Then – sit back and relax. Tally the votes when it is over, and announce the new winner. Tah-dah!! Yer dun!
First - click on the get-pushed-407 tag with your own photo that you have entered into this week's challenge or second - under there is a 'By tag' search button under Browse in the menu on top. Enter your get-pushed-407 tag there to see all the entries for this week.
You can click on each one of them t get a better look at them, comment on each one if you wish, etc.
Then hit to return arrow to go back to the page with all the entries. Back and forth, back and forth until you have seen all of them.
You are lucky. There is not usually a whole bunch to view with this challenge!
Good luck. I will be close by my computer if you need any more help.
By the way - you won challenge 406 which ended on the 10th, so you are host of 407 which ended on Sunday, May 17th.
So ... lucky you - you get to do this task this week, anytime now. Keep the voting fairly short and you can count the votes anytime - usually Saturday or Sunday.