BoredometerAdministrationTool

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Contents 1 What it does 2 Facebook Pages and the Boredometer Administration Tool 3 How To Install the Boredometer Administration Tool 4 How To Access the Boredometer Administration Tool (BAT) 5 How To Use the How to use the Boredometer Administration Tool (BAT)

What it does

The Boredometer Administration Tool (BAT) is an application for a Facebook Page.

It uses an Authorisation Code to restrict use to authorities in the Plings pilot, and to link a specific Page's BAT to a specific area.

The BAT allows you to Send Messages to all users of Boredometer in your area. It also helps you to Search for Plings in your area. You can attach these Plings to your messages, or publish them to your Page's stream. You can also review messages your BAT has already sent and view statistics about the Boredometer users in your area.

Facebook Pages and the Boredometer Administration Tool

In order to install the BAT, you will need to be an administrator of a Facebook Page.

For more information about Facebook Pages, including how to create one, please take a look at this article by Tim Davies.

If you've got a Facebook Profile, rather than a Page, use Boredometer itself. There's more about Boredometer here http://www.plings.info/wiki/index.php/Boredometer You'll be able to publish events to your stream, but not send messages or review statistics. You might like to set up a page specifically to install the BAT. You can leave this page private if you don't wish to use it for any other purpose.

How To Install the Boredometer Administration Tool

1. If you are not already logged in to Facebook, do so now. Then go to [http://apps.facebook.com/boredometeradmin/ this page on Facebook.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Boredometer Administration Tool link in the bottom left corner.
   

   

   Installing the BAT
3. Click the Add to my Page link in the left menu.
   

   

   Add the BAT to a page
4. Click the Add to Page button for the page you want to add BAT to.
   

   

   Choose the page to which you wish to add the BAT
5. Click the close button to close the add to page window.
6. You are now ready to access the BAT on your page.

How To Access the Boredometer Administration Tool (BAT)

1. Click pages and ads link which can be found in the left hand menu of your Facebook Page.
   

   

   Using the BAT - finding your pages
2. Click the Pages link on the top left of the page to bring up a list of your pages.
   

   

   Using the BAT - managing your pages
3. Click the Edit Page link of the page on which you have installed BAT.
   

   

   Using the BAT - choosing the page it's on
4. Find the Boredometer Administration Tool app on your page and click the Edit link.
   

   

   Finding the BAT to use it
5. The first time you use BAT, you will have to configure the application with an authorisation code. Please follow the configuration instructions in the How to use the Tabs section below.

How To Use the How to use the Boredometer Administration Tool (BAT)

Configuration – Use this tab to configure BAT for your area. Your organisation name can be any text that is relevant to your organisation. You will be provided with an authorisation code. Once you have entered your authorisation code and clicked save, the other BAT tabs will appear and your location will appear in the Location box. Send Message - Use this tab to send a message to all users in your area who have installed the Boredometer Application. Enter a subject and a message, attach a Pling if you want to, and press send.

To attach a Pling to your message click the Find a Pling link. This will bring you to the Search Plings tab. Follow the Search Tab instructions below to get a list of Plings. Press the add to message link for the Pling you want to attach, and it will be added to your message, appearing as a pling id number in your message. Press send.

Sent Messages – Use this tab to view the most recent messages you and your colleagues have sent. Statistics – Use this tab to view statistics about users in your area.

You can find out the following statistics about users in your area:

1. How many there are.
2. The distribution of age and gender.
3. The number of users who have issued shouts of boredom and the average number of shouts per user.
4. The number of rescues (pling suggestions) sent to users who shouted for help and the average number of rescues per shout
5. The number of rescues (pling suggestions) sent without a shout being sent by another user.
6. The top ten Pling in your area, the number of times they were suggested (sent as a rescue) and the number of users who responded to the suggestion. You can click the Pling title to view the Pling's page.

To update the statistical information, click the update data shown link.

Search Plings – Use this Tab to find Plings by area and date. You can Attach a Pling to a message (Attach to Message), Post a Pling on your wall (Post to Wall) or view the Pling page (View Pling page) by following the links.