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Build your City
Build your City
Once you select your city's seal, the center region of your city welcome page will display a distinct welcome sign based on the seal you chose.
- In the center of the sign, your city name is displayed with your motto beneath it
- The year displayed reflects the year that you registered and founded your city
- The population number increases as new tribe members join in to collaborate with you
On desktop, you'll find your Civic Center on the left side of your city and profile pages.
On mobile, Civic Center icons are shown beneath your city Welcome sign.
Civic Center icons provide easy access to conducting your city's business:
- Select Profile to edit profile content or upload a new profile image
- Select Call to Action to review or edit its message
- Select History to see stats such as your population growth and recent visitors to your city
- Select Create Message to send a message to any other Youtropolis liberator
- Select Send a Postcard to invite others to your city or send a greeting card
When visitors travel to your city, your Civic Center allows them to:
- View your Founder Profile
- Read your Call to Action
- Join your tribe
- Send you a private message
Located beneath your city's masthead is your landmark scroller featuring your city's landmarks. Each landmark icon within the scroller navigates to its own page of unique content generated by you: your you-factor progress, news, polls, pledges, wishes, amusements, lessons, events, and gifts.
Your landmarks are genuine points of interest to city visitors who by nature are curious tourists eager to discover more about you and the city you've created. The more posts you add to your landmarks, the more interesting your city will be, giving visitors genuine insight into your heart, your soul, and your world.
To post into any of your landmarks posts:
- Sign in
- Select the desired landmark by scrolling through the landmark icons
- Click/tap the red word that appears in the landmark's introductory headline (when there are no current posts)
- On the post form, select the About road sign to learn more about the landmark
- Fill in the form by selecting your audience first, adding title, post content, and tags
- Add images if desired, then click/tap Post to add your post to the landmark page
- Once you begin to post content, the headline will disappear and the page will display a "create new post" link above the posted teasers
- When you add a new post, you'll navigate to your post page
You can also post new content to each landmark by opening your City hub from your city welcome page and tribe page.
On Youtropolis, jumping right into the action is the best way to learn your way around and discover how to get the most out of your experience as a liberator. Your city hub, located on your city home page and tribe page, is the place to start.
Click "Take a new action!" to choose the action you'd like to take. Your city hub contains powerful actions designed to heal the world one small action at a time.
You can post:
- actionable newsflashes to your city News page
- important wishes that need fulfilling to your Wishing Well
- knowledge or lessons learned to share in your U of You, and
- group activities or events to your Event calendar
We help you reach a larger audience by promoting your posts to our Universal Landmarks as shown in images below, or by allowing you to share to other social media. But if you'd rather limit sharing to your tribe, just uncheck the audiences you want to exclude.
Through your city hub, you can also choose to:
- receive insight into personal matters through creating Tribal Wave polls
- make a pledge to change a condition in your life or in the world
- uplift your tribe by adding something fun to your Amusement Park
Every action you take reveals the kind of liberator you are and the kind of city you've founded.
Since love matters deeply, your hub always allows you to help others, too. From your hub, select "Respond to polls, pledges, & wishes" and you'll be helping others by giving some love, support, or insight in response to meeting their needs. Another way to meet needs is to add items to your city's Recycle Bin that someone in need might value.
For every action you take, you'll earn valuable kindreds that quickly increase your city's weconomy and raise your stature as a liberator. So jump into action and see how quickly your city grows.
Your city seal not only represents your city's character, it represents one of Youtropolis' seven sitewide City Districts where other liberators gather to dialog and learn about how to liberate themselves and others in different areas of life.
On mobile:
- Your City seal is displayed on your city's welcome page beneath the Welcome sign
On desktop:
- Your City seal is displayed on your city's welcome page and profile pages in the upper right column
To see what's happening in your district:
- Mouse over your City seal icon, tap or click
- Select a topic of interest on the District page
- Start reading
- As an option, you may respond to the topic or start a new topic if you are signed in
- You may also participate in any other City District by selecting a different City District icon in the district scroller
If you haven't yet chosen a city seal, it will not appear on your city's welcome or profile pages. To add a seal:
- Select the 3 dot Manage menu on the upper right
- Choose Profile
- Select the Edit Profile link
- Choose City seal in the menu on the left
- Mouse over each seal to learn about its character
- Select the seal that most represents you
- Click Save
If you've added a Call to Action to your city's profile and tagged it, Bridge Builder intelligently finds and matches you with potential new allies and kindred spirits based on how you tagged your city's Call to Action.
By suggesting like-minded liberators whose ideals or goals match yours, Bridge Builder gives you the opportunity to join new, relatable tribes and invite them join yours, increasing the strength of your social safety net.
To discover who's in your Bridge Builder:
- Select the 3 dot manage menu above
- Choose Bridge Builder
If there are no matches yet:
- Click/tap Call to Action
- Enter descriptive tags into the form's tag field
- Click/tap Save
People who rise to the top never shy away from tooting their own horn and building a following (think political candidates). They know it pays off! So it's time to give a shout out to the world and get your liberation off the ground.
From your city's Welcome page or Tribe page open your city hub to Start something new...
- Select Post newsflash
- On the post form, use the down arrow to open and select Trade Alliances if you've already joined other cities
- Fill in the rest of the form, then Post! Your tribe members will receive an alert.
If you've already created a Newsflash and want to share it on other social media, go to your Newsflash post page:
- Select the down arrow to open the menu
- Choose your preferred social media icon through which you'll share your news, or if you wish to share via email, select the email icon
Here are some fun ways to get the word out about your city and your call to action:
- Throw a ribbon-cutting ceremony and launch party to promote your Youtropolis city. Invite your favorite people and share your city's important call to action. Invite them to join Youtropolis and support your city's unique goals by joining your tribe.
- Give your friends, co-workers, and social acquaintances a Youtropolis business card featuring your city's Call to Action and web address. Handing out your business card is an opportunity to talk up your city and invite others to join your tribe.
- When you're out and about, sport a custom-made "Be a liberator" T-shirt featuring your city's web address.
- Call attention to your city driving around town with a bumper sticker promoting your city web address
- Stamp out negativity and division with a custom "Give some love" rubber stamp featuring your city web address.
A quick and easy way to create buzz for your city and generate interest in your liberation is by tagging your motto with descriptive words that capture your city's essence.
Here's how to tag your city motto:
- Go to the 3 dot Manage menu on the upper right
- Select Profile
- Choose the Edit Profile link
- Add a city motto if you haven't yet done so
- Add tags that will pique interest and attract others to your city
- Tap/click Save
Your tags will immediately post to Youtropolis Cities and your city will appear in search results with a convenient hyperlink to your city when matching tag searches are conducted by others.
If you're feeling like your city (or your life) is as dull as a ghost town, it's time to have fun building up your tribe! Your tribe shapes the culture of your city, supports its economic success, and collaborates in its activities to give you a leg up.
To build up your tribe, follow these steps
Tag your tribe:
- Select Send a Postcard in your city's Civic Center located on the left side of your city page
- Select Build your tribe
- Tag your tribe with keywords that best illustrate the nature or your city
Invite people you know and love:
- Choose the style of invitation postcard you want to send, then select that postcard
- On the postcard form, add email addresses for each invitee on separate lines, or you can select import your contacts
- Personalize the message content, if you wish
- Enter your name, email address, and submit the form
Once recipients receive your postcard invitation and join Youtropolis, they'll automatically become members of your tribe. You will receive an email notifcation and an alert when new invitees join.
Invite Youtropolis members you'd like to get to know:
- Select the search icon above and choose Cities
- Select any tag in the tag box to explore cities, or enter your own tag search in the tag search bar to find kindred spirits who might wish to join your tribe
- Select a city name to navigate to that person's city
- On their city welcome page, select Create Message in their Civic Center to send them a private invitation message
Cultivating your own distinct and diverse urban culture is a powerful way to grow your city's population. Imagine establishing an egalitarian society whose population helps you foment the change you're seeking. Whether you want to belong to a certain in-crowd, excel in a chosen skill, learn a new language, launch a new business, or hang out with artists and musicians, it's time to attract your ideal dream team to your city with the goal of having them join your tribe.
To draw interest and populate your city with like-minded folks and experts, tag your tribe with keywords that highlight the urban culture you want to cultivate (e.g., world travelers, protesters, knitters, bikers, investors, etc.) Adding up to five tags will attract a more diverse and interesting population.
To add tags to your tribe:
- Select Send a Postcard in your Civic Center
- Choose Build your tribe
- On the Tribe form, add up to 5 tags to identify the nature of your tribe
- Click Save
When other liberators search for matching words under People, your city will be listed in the search results with a convenient link to your city.
Your tribe management page provides a list of your tribe members and the date they joined your tribe. If you want to banish a tribe member for any reason, follow the steps below. When you banish a tribe member, they lose the privilege of posting into your Younited Front and receiving future tribe notifications from your city. The tribe member won't be notified of their removal.
To banish a tribe member:
- Sign in
- Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
- In the tribe member listing, find the tribe member you want to banish and click Banish
- Click Banish on the confirmation page to complete the action
To unbanish a former tribe member:
- Sign in
- Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
- Click Banished
- In the list of banished tribe members, find the member you'd like to unbanish
- Click the Unbanish link next to their city name