Crowd sourcing is a new trend and it works in a way that a (big) group of people work together on the same topic… in our case is it the recognition of plants and flowers.

After uploading a photo on an unknown plant, everyone can propose a possible plant name. Other users are able to vote on the submitted names and agree or disagree with the name. This way you’ll get the right name for your unknown plant very soon.

Today we launch the web version of Plantifier, soon there will be a Smartphone app for Android, iPhone and iPad that allows you to upload and recognize plants and flowers from inside your garden.

Follow our @plantifier Twitter account for more information and to start recognizing plants !

A subdomain is a URL such as: http://lievengekiere.mygarden.org. It is a link to your own personal profile page on the MyGarden.org site. The subdomain name can be freely chosen or you can use the suggestion. (see example below)

After saving the settings your personal MyGarden.org subdomain will be available immediately. You can use this as a shortcut or link to give to your friends or to post on Twitter and Facebook.

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At the right hand side of the screen, you’ll notice a gray button: “Invite a friend”

When you click this button, you can enter one or more email-addresses of the people you want to invite.

If you want, you can change the standard text that’s already filled in. After that, just hit the “Send” button and your friends will receive an email with this invitation.

Under the messagefield, you see a few buttons, useful buttons!

The first series are used to add extra info to your message.

Plant

When you want to link your message to a certain plant in your garden, use the “plant” button. Click it, and select the appropriate plant.

Gardener

This button allows you to write a public message to another user. Just click the button, select the user (as you did with the plant). You can only write a message to a user you follow.

Photo

When you click the “photo” button, you can select a file to show as a picture about your message

Link

When you have an interesting link to share with your fellow gardeners, click the “Link” button.

Then you need to paste the link to the webpage in the “http://” field and choose “Attach”

With the little arrows, you can select a good picture to accompany your link.

The last series of buttons help you to publish your message

Facebook and Twitter

If you’ve attached your Facebook or Twitter account to your MyGarden.org profile, you can post your message directly to these other social networks. How to attach these profiles, I will explain in another blogpost.

And when all the info is added, don’t forget the “Share” button

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If you need any help on the site, use the helpdesk function on the top of every page.