So one of the most important parts of your platform is the content.
After all, that is why people are wanting to come to your platform.
They're paying to get access to your platform is to really get the content.
And so everything in Tribe, every page where you're viewing content, can be managed in
the dashboard.
And I'll show you how to add various types of content in this video.
Now, you know, we use this one idea of content to do a lot of different things.
Content can be a video, content could be a live stream, it could be an embedded video,
it could be a download link, it could be a zoom link to access a zoom meeting, it can
even be a blog post.
And it can even be a, like I said, a link, download PDF, anything like that.
So we use this for a number of different things.
But what's great about this is, is you can make two or three different pieces of content
and group them together in a collection, we'll show you how to do all that here on the platform.
But it's a great way to kind of move things around the platform very easily.
And the important thing is to kind of think that each piece of content is really its own
page.
And so each of those pages will have a specific link that you can send people to.
And that's a great way to think about content.
So let's jump into it.
And I'll show you how to create your first piece of content.
So head over to your dashboard, click on the content tab here on the left.
And we'll click the add content in the top right.
Now you can give a title.
So this is my first post.
And the publish date, you can set or just leave blank by default, it's going to be the
time and date that you're creating this piece of content.
You can then specify the author.
So I can, by default, it's going to be me.
But I can also set this up for another admin if needed.
I can assign this piece of content to one of my existing collections.
Or I can create a new collection in here.
And I'm going to add this to my groups collection and this one just to test it.
I can also specify if this content should just be available to a particular group.
You can set that there.
And there's a few other options here, which I'll show in a later video.
So the important parts here are the featured image.
This is what the image that you're going to see if I jump over here to a piece of content
like this picture right here.
That is the featured image.
Or for example, this one here, I have adding and organizing your content.
That image is the featured image there.
So I'll go ahead and upload something.
We'll go with Michael Scott for this example.
And now I can choose the content type.
So when you click this dropdown, there may be a number of options here.
And it could be a little overwhelming, but just know that the main pieces of content
here at the top are going to be the ones that you use the most.
And so majority of the time, you're going to be uploading a video.
We highly recommend that you host your videos with your platform.
This enables that they play back the fastest.
And it also is the most cost-effective way to stream your videos.
If you're going to embed YouTube, you're going to get ads.
If you embed Vimeo, you're going to rack up a lot of fees with Vimeo bandwidth, especially
as your community scales.
So we have built in our own video hosting right into the platform.
So when you upload a video into the platform, it actually hosts it on a platform that you
own, right?
So you always have access to it.
And it's also set up to play back really, really fast and very efficiently on a lot
of different devices.
So leverage that.
That is the default way to get videos in here.
But there are other ways to do it.
So other than uploading a video, you can embed a YouTube video.
You can even add a restream link, Wistia, Searchy, and a few others.
So for this example, I'm going to just go ahead and upload a video.
And you can do this by clicking here and then selecting a file from your computer.
So here I've uploaded a little demo, this funny video.
And once you upload it, you can always get that original file by clicking this download
video button here.
There's options to enable chat.
If you want or not, you can leave that off.
And we'll go ahead and click save.
Awesome.
So now we can click this little blue view button here.
And this will take us to a page to go and view this post.
So there's my featured image.
And if I hit play, I can immediately play back the video.
So now that's available, I could actually send anyone in the world this link, and they
can go watch my video now.
So I'll also wait just a few minutes here, and then I'll show you how the videos are
going to get kind of sped up and they get processed.
So you'll notice that as soon as I hit save, the video was immediately available for playback,
you don't have to wait for processing initially.
But over the course of five to 10 minutes after you upload, your videos will get optimized
for kind of greater distribution.
So they're available instantly, but then an optimized version comes maybe five to 10 minutes
later.
All done behind the scenes, you don't have to do anything.
To make this work, you just upload it, and it will all magically get optimized for you.
Alright, so there's our first piece of content, I'm going to be doing a few of these videos,
I'll do one per platform, so you can go to those specific tutorials depending on where
your content is coming from.