Help

Help

These pages will get you acquainted with the site:

• Frequently Asked Questions (details about membership, users, legal and technical issues) en Español - En français
• Site rules (our Terms of Use – required reading) en Español
• Community guidelines and comments policy - En Español
• Our mission
• About Ourmedia (including our Advisory Board and Project team)
• Why join?
• Privacy policy
• Fair use

Overview

Before you begin
How to register
My Controls explained
Site navigation

Your personal settings

My Page help: How to edit your personal profile or account settings
How to retrieve your password or screen name
How to change your password or screen name

Contributing material

How to publish on Ourmedia
How to publish video
How to publish audio
How to publish images
How to publish text
About the Ourmedia Publisher tool
How to select a copyright license
How to blog on Ourmedia
How to post in the Forums
How to post a comment
How to add your blog feed to our aggregator page

Using the site

All about moderators
How to play media files
Browser problems
How to save media to your hard drive
I'm having problems playing video
How to find media
How to find other members
How to read your messages
All about tags and tagging
What is a buddy list?

Managing content

How to see what you’ve published
How to edit the content you’ve published
How to delete a comment
How to use RSS/XML on Ourmedia
How to remix content
How to request the removal of someone’s material
How to remove your media from Ourmedia

Communicating and volunteering

How to contact a member of Ourmedia
How to report abusive behavior
How to report a bug or error
How to volunteer to help
How to become a guest editor
How to make a suggestion
How to contact us

FAQ pages

You'll also find answers to many Help-related topics on the FAQ pages:

• General FAQ - en Español - en Français
• Contributors FAQ
• Users FAQ
• Legal FAQ
• Technical FAQ
• Miscellaneous FAQ