Make Your Activity Available To Anyone Who Wants To Join You

When you share an activity with everyone, you basically have to wait for someone to notice you have shared your activity.  If no one is checking the neighborhood for shared activities, no one will ever join you.

To make your activity available to anyone who wants to join you follow these steps.  We'll use the Write activity in our example but this approach will work with any activity that supports sharing.

  1. Begin by launching the activity that you'd like to share:

  1. Choose the Activity menu/tab at the top of the window to see all the activity related commands:

  1. Click on the "Share with:" button and choose, "My Neighborhood":

  1. Now just wait.  It's kind of like fishing.  You have to wait for the fish to bite!  You also have to stay with the activity you're sharing (just like you can't leave your fishing pole).  If you launch another activity, you won't see any indication that someone has joined the activity you've shared.  They're likely to join, see no activity, and then leave again without you knowing.

Others in your neighborhood will see your icon displayed along with the icon for the activity you are sharing in their Neighborhood view (that's them in the center of the window and you in the upper left corner along with your Write activity icon):

  1. Strange, but your shared activity doesn't appear in their Friends view :

  1. Anyway, passing the mouse cursor over the icon shows the name of the icon:

  1. They only need to click on the activity icon and it will begin to launch in their activity ring:

  1. In the case of the Write activity, now both persons can type into the same document:

  1. ...  and see each other's typing:

  1. Either person can stop sharing by simply exiting from the activity.

 Page last changed: 12/27/2009