Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started
- What is To Do Alive?
- How
do I create a To Do Alive list?
- How
do I copy a To Do item to my own To Do Alive list?
- How
do I make a comment on a To Do item?
- How
do I mark a To Do item as completed?
- Can
I post YouTube and Vimeo videos on my To Do items?
- How
do I change my Profile Picture or Information?
- What
is Gravatar?
- What
is Facebook Connect?
- How
can I share my To Do Alive list with my friends?
- How
do I invite my friends to join To Do Alive?
- What
is the To Do Alive gadget?
- Can
I monetize my To Do Alive lists?
- What
is Adsense?
- How
do I sign-up for Adsense?
- What
is Adsense “Publisher ID" and “Ad Slot”?
- Will To Do Alive support other Advertisement Network?
- How
do I submit a complaint about copyright, impersonation and trademark?
- What
is the copyright guideline for using videos, images and photos?
Getting Started
- What
is To Do Alive?
ToDoAlive.com is a micro blogging platform that is specially designed for bloggers to keep track of what they want to do in the future! Our goal is to track and predict what the world wants to do, in other words, we are the "real time" of "future time" if you will... LOL
- How
do I create a To Do Alive list?
When you first sign-up with To Do Alive, after your email confirmation, you will be prompted to create and save a “list”.
You can choose to change the name “General” to your preferred name or you can select “SAVE” to proceed.
If you want to Edit or Add more “to do lists”, you can do it in your PROFILE page
At the top menu, click on “Profile” to access the profile page.
Or on the left menu by clicking on the “New List” button.
Click on “New List” to create a new list.
- How
do I copy a To Do item to my own To Do Alive list?
When you are viewing a To Do item, you can click on the “plus” (+) symbol to copy and add the To Do task to your own to do list. Please see following image.
- How
do I make a comment on a To Do item?
To make a comment on a To Do item, select the “arrow” (
) symbol to call out the
“comment box” to add your comments.
- How
do I mark a To Do item as completed?
Similarly, to mark a To Do item as completed, select the “tick” (
) symbol to call out the “completion
box”. Fill in the details and save your information.
- Can
I post YouTube and Vimeo videos on my To Do items?
Yes you can. Just copy the URL of the videos and paste them into your To Do item.
After you saved, the video will appear each time you click on the video link.
- How
do I change my Profile Picture or Information?
To update your Profile Picture, all you need to do is to register at Gravatar.com.
The benefit of signing up with Gravatar is that you will not need to upload photos or picture each time you sign-up at a site that support it.
- What
is Gravatar?
Gravatar (an abbreviation for Globally Recognized AVATAR) is a service for providing globally-unique avatars which was created by Tom Preston-Werner.
A Gravatar is tied to your email address. If you have registered a picture and tied it to an email address on Gravatar, ToDoAlive will be able to pick up the picture as your Profile Picture. For more information, please visit http://www.gravatar.com
The benefit of signing up with Gravatar is that you will not need to upload photos or picture each time you sign-up at a site that support it.
- What
is Facebook Connect?
If you already have a Facebook account, you do not need to sign up again.
Just use Facebook Connect to sign up on ToDoAlive. Click on the Facebook Login button and Facebook will ask you to give your permission to login to ToDoAlive.
For more information, please visit http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web
- How
can I share my To Do Alive list with my friends?
You can share your To Do Alive lists with your friend through a number of ways. - By sending out Invitation
Use the To Do Alive’s invitation feature (http://todoalive.com/account/invite) to invite your friends to join you on To Do Alive.
- By using the AddThis feature.
If you have accounts with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google, Live, etc., you can easily share your To Do items with your friends or the world. Just select your favourite sharing feature and login to share.
- By using the To Do Alive Gadget.
Another way to share To Do Alive with your friends is through your own blog, or websites. All you need to do is to follow the instructions here: http://todoalive.com/gadget
- How
do I invite my friends to join To Do Alive?
You can invite your friends to join ToDoAlive.com by sending them an invitation.
The To Do Alive’s invitation feature (http://todoalive.com/account/invite) allows you to key in multiple emails to invite multiple friends to join you on To Do Alive.
- What
is the To Do Alive gadget?
The To Do Alive Gadget is for you to share your To Do Items with your friends and followers via your blog or website. The gadget will display your To Do items, and when clicked, will take your followers to your personal To Do Alive site.
To create your To Do Alive gadget, go to your profile page and scroll down to “ToDoAlive Lists”. Select which list you want to create the gadget for and click on this icon (
). This will take you to the
following page:
You will be able to customize the gadget to match your blog’s or website’s color scheme. When you are done customizing, click on “Apply” and then copy the “Embed Code” and paste the JavaScript into a JavaScript container on your blog or website. (E.g. Blogspot has a HTML/JavaScript gadget container.)
- Can
I monetize my To Do Alive lists?
Yes, you can. All you need to do is to have an Adsense account.
Access your ToDoAlive Adsense under your ToDoAlive Profile.
You can sign-up with Google Adsense by following this link: https://www.google.com/adsense/
Create the advertisement according to Google Adsense’s requirements. Be sure to create your ad with the following size: 468x60, as ToDoAlive only supports this size at the moment.
After creating your ad, you will be able to generate the code for your Adsense unit similar to the following:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
/* 468x60, created 5/20/10 */
google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
All you need to do now is to copy and paste the above in red, into your ToDoAlive’s Profile’s Adsense section.
- What
is Adsense?
Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn. (https://www.google.com/adsense ).
- How
do I sign-up for Adsense?
Go to https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1 to sign-up with Google Adsense.
- What
is Adsense “Publisher ID" and “Ad Slot”?
- Will
To Do Alive support other Advertisement Network?
In future we will support more Advertisement Network including text link ads.
.