These tips will have you using NowComment like a pro:
Each NowComment comment has a Summary that's meant to give your readers a short overview of your main point or points. It's limited to 255 characters, roughly 1-2 sentences. If everything you want to say fits in the Summary field then you don't need to put anything in the second field… but usually you'll want to say more, e.g. give some examples, provide explanatory details, identify interesting implications, etc. Put these elaborations into the optional “Full Comment” field, where you can write as much as you want!
Unlike email, don’t keep the same Summary when replying to someone; the Summary is for you to share your main points with the group.
See the Summaries of the comments on this amazing painting:
“In June 1816, the French frigate Méduse departed from Rochefort, bound for the Senegalese port of Saint-Louis. She headed a convoy of three other ships…it ran aground on a sandbank off the West African coast, near today’s Mauritania. The collision was widely blamed on the incompetence of De Chaumereys, a returned émigré who lacked experience and ability, but had been granted his commission as a result of an act of political preferment.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
The Wikipedia article says that Géricault spent a lot of time on research, including how to render the flesh tones of dead bodies. I’m surprised he drew this one this way.
To comment at a particular point on an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video, pause the media player's progress indicator (a red circle for YouTube, a blue bar for Vimeo) at the desired point, click the “Add Comment” link on the blue toolbar above the video, and then choose the “at current time” option.
Always happy to answer questions about NowComment! Generally … (more)
Always happy to answer questions about NowComment! Generally … (more)
Note— you can still embed media players from a source other than YouTube (e.g. SoundCloud, Vimeo), but as of August 2016 you would just comment on it by clicking on the paragraph number and making a paragraph comment.
An important NowComment feature is allowing multiple conversations on any sentence, paragraph, image, or video. To keep each conversation efficient and on-topic:
As an example, we'll make a few comments here about the American holiday of Thanksgiving.
• Argentina: Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia
• Barbados: Crop over:
• China: August Moon (mid-Autumn) Festival
• Germany: Erntedank
• Ghana: Homowo Festival
• India: Pongal
• Iran: Mehregan
• Japan: Niiname-sai, Shinjo-sai
• Jewish: Sukkot
• Korea: Chu-Sok
• Nigeria: Ikore
• Poland: Doynki
• Turkmenistan: Hasyl toy
• Vietnam: Tết Trung Thu
According to the National Turkey Federation:
“In 2010, more than 244 million turkeys were raised. More than 226 million were consumed in the United States. We estimate that 46 million of those turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving…”
http://www.eatturkey.com/consumer/history/history.html
Jessica's comment is about the tradition of eating a turkey. Since Tom's next comment is also about food, he replied to Jessica's comment (no change of topic). But Rachel's comment isn't about food, so she didn't click “Reply”; instead, she began a new conversation (by double clicking the text or the paragraph#).
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