Categories can be seen as personal folders in which you save your places and services. What are they useful for? Basically, they help you keep it all organized thus making it easier to pull up information when you need it. For example, you can create a category for “Restaurants”, one for “Health Services”, another for “Shopping Malls” and one for “Places I want to go to”. When you’re adding a service to your page, you check the box next to the category you want to file it under. You may list one place under one or several of your categories.

You may create as many categories as you want to and think you need. That way, when you’re looking for a particular type of service, by clicking on a related category you’ll find a list of the services you’ve saved under it.

Categories are also useful for browsing other user’s places and services too.

When saving any place or service, the first page you go to (the form) will have a section for categories. Here you can add as many categories as you’d like, you can change the ones you’ve already created, and give them descriptions.

The easiest way to manage your categories is by clicking on the “categories” tab at the top of your 11870.com page. From there you’ll be able to see and change names and descriptions for any categories you’ve created. You can also remove a category or create a new one.

Categories can also be managed from the “overview” section: click on “services” and then on “overview”. There you’ll also be able to move several places at a time into a particular category.

Check the boxes on the left of the services you want to change, then pick the option “add to category” on the pull down menu over on the right. You’ll see a window like this one:

Tags are like keywords or adjectives you can use to organize, describe and classify your places and services better. They allow you to recover information quickly and find similar places by clicking on them. One example would be if you had created a category for “Restaurants”, you would use tags like “chinese”, “japanese”, “nouvelle cuisine” or “tapas”. You can use as many tags as you like and combine them at will. Using tags and categories will keep your profile organized and easy to use as a reference.

Tags are not only useful to you as an individual user. They help everyone browse other 11870.com pages, discover similar places and much more. :-) Find out what’s popular on 11870.com by taking a peak at what other’s are tagging the most!

Whenever you save a place or service you’ll use a form where, among other things, you can add whatever tags you find fit.

You’ll be able to tag several places at a time by going to “services” and then clicking on “overview”. On this page you’ll be able to pick out the services you want to add by checking the boxes an selecting the action “add tags” from the pull down menu to the right.

You’ll end up at the following screen which, as you can see, is really easy to use!

The easiest way to manage your tags is by clicking on the tab that says “tags”, on your 11870.com page. What you see then will be a tag cloud, a list of tags where those you use the most appear in larger type. You can also see any other user’s tag clouds if you’re at their page. Clicking on a tag in the cloud will take you to the list of services that you (or the user you’re looking at) have applied the tag to.

If what you want to do is rename or erase your tags, click on “edit” to see an editable list of tags.