Choose Social Media Settings with the Experience Wizard

Before creating your Social Wall, the Experience Wizard will walk you step-by-step through some initial settings. These are basic settings that you'll need to set before creating your Social Wall.

Don't Worry! Settings Can Be Updated Later

All the settings in the Experience Wizard can be updated later once you create your Social Wall, so no need to overthink it. Most of the settings can be adjusted under the green Settings tab on the Experience Dashboard.

Header Message Tab

Set the Header Message

The first tab of the Experience Wizard will ask you to set a Header Message for your Social Wall. The Header Message is the text that you want your crowd to see at the top of your Social Wall. Some examples are:

• Post Your Best Event Photos on the Wall!
• Tell Us What You Think About The Company
• Welcome To This Year's Event! Post Your Photos!

The Header Message Is Not Your URL!

The Header Message is not the instructions for posting, the specific #hashtag, or the URL used to post to your Social Wall. Crowdpurr automatically configures and adds the URL and instructions at the bottom of your Social Wall. However, feel free to add the #hashtag or instructions to your Header Message for extra emphasis!

You can also add a long Header Message if you like. Crowdpurr automatically sizes it correctly on the Social Wall. If you don't add or update the Header Message, a default one will be added that you can update later.

Let's create a Social Wall about everyone's favorite topic... Cats! Type in Post Your Best Cat Photos to the Wall! for the Header Message.

You're now ready to go to the next tab. Click on the Next button.

Social Media Tab

The Social Media tab allows you to select which social media channels and #hashtags you want to use to gather posts and images for your Social Wall.

Select Social Media Channels

Crowdpurr currently offers three different social media channels to aggregate social media posts and images to your Social Wall. You can enable or disable each one on this tab. For Twitter and Instagram, you can add which #hashtags and @usernames you want your Social Wall to query from those social media channels.

Allow Posts From Crowdpurr

Let's enable Allow Posts From Crowdpurr.

Enabling this setting allows users to post to your Social Wall directly on the web through a Crowdpurr link and doesn't involve external social media networks. This is a great option if you want to allow your crowd to participate without having to post to an external social media network and/or if participants may not have social media accounts.

When enabled, your Social Wall will show a web link (e.g. crowd.live) and a code that your participants must enter in order to post. Once entered, your participants can post messages and images as many times as they choose. Disabling this channel will only allow posting through Instagram and/or Twitter using a specified #hashtag or @username.

Allow Posts From Twitter

Let's enable Allow Posts From Twitter. Then add the #cats as the #hashtag and click on the green Save button. Using #cats will let us test our Social Wall with a popular #hashtag that will always have a lot of posts.

Enabling this setting allows your participants to post messages and images to your Social Wall using their Twitter account. Posts will be added if they contain a given #hashtag or @username that you must enter on the following input field. When using a @username, posts will be included if they mention the @username or come from the @username's Twitter account.

Don't Forget To Add a #Hashtag or @Username

If you do not have any added #hashtags or @usernames, your Social Wall will not add any posts or images from Twitter because it does not know what to query Twitter for. 

You may only enter one #hashtag or @username per Social Wall. All #hashtags and @usernames are case-insensitive, so don't worry about capitalization.

Allow Posts From Instagram

Let's also enable Allow Posts From Instagram. Then also add #cats as the #hashtag and click on the green Save button.

Enabling this setting allows your participants to post messages and images to your Social Wall using their Instagram account. Posts will be added if they contain a given #hashtag or @username that you must enter on the following input field.  When using a @username, posts will be included if they mention the @username.

Why Are We Using #cats? Why not test with #MyEventHashtag?

For this tutorial, we want to see a lot of posts added from Twitter and Instagram. So we'll use a popular #hashtag like #cats. This #hashtag will show us lots of images and posts about cats. If you're using your own actual #hashtag, keep in mind that there may not be any posts to aggregate if you or no one has posted any tweets or posts using that #hashtag.

Twitter and Instagram get queried every 5-minutes and aggregate new matching posts that are less than 48 hours old at the time of querying. So if your #hashtag hasn't been used recently, your Social Wall will not pull any posts using that #hashtag. So for testing, we'll use a popular #hashtag that you can easily change later.

You're now ready to go to the next tab. Click on the Next button.

Layout Tab

The Layout tab allows you to select which Social Wall layout to display on the Presentation View. The Presentation View is the display you will open and connect to an external projector or HDTV to actually display your Social Wall posts and images to your live audience. There are several cool layouts to choose from.

Layout Tab

4-Column Social Mosaic

This view arranges your posts and images into four columns of various image and text sizes for a cool mosaic effect that constantly circulates your posts to give a constantly updating "live" feeling to your Social Wall.

2-Column Social Mosaic

This view arranges your posts and images into two columns of various image and text sizes. This is similar to the 4-Column Social Mosaic but will show slightly fewer posts and images at the same time and increase the size of displayed posts.

Single Column List View

This view arranges your posts and images into an easily-readable single list of posts and images. The list constantly updates to display a "stream" of your latest posts and images from your crowd.

Single Post Spotlight

This view gives each of your Social Wall's posts and images the spotlight by only displaying a single post or image at a time in full-screen mode. Posts constantly refresh every few seconds to keep your crowd updated on the latest messages and images being sent to your Social Wall.

Let's go ahead and click on the 4-Column Social Mosaic.

You're now ready to go to the next tab. Click on the Next button.

Name It & Go Tab

The final tab of the Experience Wizard simply lets you edit the name of your Social Wall. You can add different names to your Social Walls to keep them organized.

Let's call it the #Cats Social Wall. You can leave the description blank.

You're now ready to finalize and create your first Social Wall! Click on the blinking button that says Rock N' Roll. After a few seconds, your new Social Wall will be created and you'll automatically go to the Experience Dashboard of your new Social Wall!

Next Steps

Now that our Social Wall has been created, let's learn about how your crowd actually posts to your Social Wall on their mobile device using Crowdpurr. Go to the next step Opening the Social Wall's Participant View.