Introduction

For people who don't know too much about the new social networking websites they are designed to broaden your knowledge and your network of friends, without the hindrance of geographic barriers. A collector from the other side of the world can now become your friend and share thoughts, images or information in the same way you can with your work colleagues or your family.

There are many great features on MyPhilately (with many more exciting features on the way):

1. Build you philatelic network by just clicking on any MyPhilately user and asking them to become a friend. Once you start building your network you can start gaining information and sharing information.

2. Create stamp groups which relate to specific themes or collecting areas. Each group is given a domain name for example http://www.myphilately.com/roocovers which allows users to easily spread the location to their friends outside of philately. The creator of the group can then maintain their group using an administration function.

3. The ability to upload images directly to MyPhilately and share them with your friends and groups - this eliminates the need to swap between image sharing websites and bulletin boards

4. Users can set up blogs, discussions, polls and even events which are occurring in philately, which then inform their friends or stamp groups. All of these items are open to comments from the MyPhilately community.

5. An internal messaging system - this will stop the ever growing problem of spam to your home email account.

6. Share your skill set with your friends and have the ability to ask specific friends questions relating to their skills. For example if you have MyPhilately friends who are highly skilled in postmark recognition you can send them messages with postmarks for them to identify.

7. MyPhilately Award system - if you see a blog/ comment/ discussion which you feel has helped you or improved your knowledge. You can give them a MyPhilately award. We feel its not how many comments somebody puts up but the quality of their comments and how they add to the community.

8. The ability to report a comment, image or any webpage as inappropriate. This is very important with user generated websites and maintaining them, so that appropriate content is available to the users. Any comment, blog, image, discussion, schedule can be notified to the administrators if they breach copyright, decency or is not in the best interest of philately

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The project

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