Thank you, Betty, for asking those questions. (See Betty's questions in the comments of the last post.)
You can get rid of your blog once you practice on it a little and understand how to work it. But really it doesn't hurt for us to have our own blog sites for different purposes, if you like.
I have a few blogs. One for my family to check, one for my business, one for my "Peninsula's Yellow Ribbon Club," one for my writings... Posting my family blog makes it so that I don't have to mass email everyone. Amy would probably enjoy having one of those. I don't get to look at the cute pictures she's emailed me as often as I might because they are buried 5 pages deep in my mail or stuck in a folder. If they were posted on a website, we could surf through them easily and frequently. My club website advertises the club, solicits donations and alerts members of upcoming meetings or events. They all know to check it. Keeps my work down considerably. For my writings, I can post from anywhere. A lot of times what I do with my writing site is have a work-in-progress saved as a draft. Then I log on when I get inspired, whether it's at work, home or traveling (with Internet access of course).
We will create another blog for the family to use for Stella's purpose, but I thought it would be good for everyone to know how to work it before jumping in.
To answer the question of posting comments. I agree that posting a comment is not the best way to use this blog. I have added myself as an additional author, so you will see how, at the bottom of some postings it says "POSTED BY SAMPLE" , but this one is posted by me, signing in as a different author with a different account.
I hesitate sending invitations to be additional authors, because I think it would confuse the matter now. I would prefer you get aquainted with the technique first.
Betty has created a blog at http://thoughtsfrombetty.blogspot.com/, and one other among us has read the instructions and created a blog of their own. Check out Shiran's blog at http://praiseyoulord.blogspot.com/.
One last thing: whoever has sign on privileges has to moderate the comments before they are posted. That's why Betty's comments weren't able to be veiwed until today.
Please email me with any more questions. I love it that you're all getting into this!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
BLOG CLASS SESSION 3 - POSTINGS
To create your first post, go to your DASHBOARD again.
Select "New Post" under your blog name.
You will see the Display Name of your blog and 4 tabs. Posting, Settings, Layout and View Blog.
Feel free to explore the tabs and links under each tab.
Now go back to the Posting tab, Create.
Type a title of your post. In the editing window, type in a little narrative of why you named your website what you named it, the purpose and any bio info you would like to add. When you are done, click the ORANGE button at the bottom "Publish Post."
It will let you know that it published successfully. Take a look at it now by clicking "View Blog." I like to choose "(In a new window)," but that's your choice. When you want to go back and edit it, click "Edit Post."
Now, if you recall my first posting about how to change fonts, text size, bold, italics, color and justification of the text. Fool around with that a little and see what happens. Each time you make a change, publish post again and look at it.
For the purpose of the community blog, it will be important to label your post each time with your name and topics covered. Enter those lables now at the bottom of the posting window. It says "Labels for this post: e.g. scooters, vacation, fall" My lables on this posting are INSTRUCTIONS and Kim.
Select "New Post" under your blog name.
You will see the Display Name of your blog and 4 tabs. Posting, Settings, Layout and View Blog.
Feel free to explore the tabs and links under each tab.
Now go back to the Posting tab, Create.
Type a title of your post. In the editing window, type in a little narrative of why you named your website what you named it, the purpose and any bio info you would like to add. When you are done, click the ORANGE button at the bottom "Publish Post."
It will let you know that it published successfully. Take a look at it now by clicking "View Blog." I like to choose "(In a new window)," but that's your choice. When you want to go back and edit it, click "Edit Post."
Now, if you recall my first posting about how to change fonts, text size, bold, italics, color and justification of the text. Fool around with that a little and see what happens. Each time you make a change, publish post again and look at it.
For the purpose of the community blog, it will be important to label your post each time with your name and topics covered. Enter those lables now at the bottom of the posting window. It says "Labels for this post: e.g. scooters, vacation, fall" My lables on this posting are INSTRUCTIONS and Kim.
BLOG CLASS SESSION 2 - EDIT PROFILE
Next go to the top of the screen next to your email address where it says "Dashboard." Then click Edit Profile (circled in the box to the right).
EDIT USER PROFILE
Make your choices in the Privacy and Identy sections.
Your display name will be what shows when you sign a post. See my http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/. The desplay name is listed under each of my postings "Posted by Kim Coreson."
Continue to fill out as much or as little of this section as you like. Don't fret over filling out every little thing. If you don't know what it is, skip it for now. Then hit the ORANGE "save Profile" box at the bottom.
At the top of the page you will see "view profile." Click and see what your profile looks like. Compare it to my profile on http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/. Click "View my complete profile" on that site to see how the answers all feed into the final product. Make note of any changes you would like to make later. Changes can be made to this section at any time by going to the dashboard and clicking "Edit Profile."
Now click back to the Dashboard. We will go to our next section "POSTINGS"
BLOG CLASS SESSION 1 - PRELIMINARY SET UP
Hello Family!
I will teach my blog class here post by post so that you can all follow along and learn how to do this.
Each of you who want to take this class will decide to make a blog of your own. It's up to you what you do with it after the class. You can delete it, not delete it and ignore it, or you can use it.
The purpose of the class, however, is to learn how to use blogger and ultimately do a community blog together, as Stella has proposed.
Please follow along and I will teach you step by step how to use blogger.
________________________________________
The first thing you need is an existing email address. If you're looking over someone's shoulder now and you want to do this but don't have an address... make one.
Next go to blogger.com
Follow the instructions "Create a blog in 3 easy steps"
Throughout this process, always look for a button or arrow in ORANGE.
As we go through this process, I will refer to my http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ as an example of the elements you will encounter.
Click "Create Your Blog Now" (the ORANGE arrow)
STEP ONE - CREATE AN ACCOUNT:
Enter:
Email address
Password
Retype password
Display name (see http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ My display name is "A Collection of Writings")
Now type in the wobbly word that you see
Check that you accept the terms of service
Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"
STEP TWO - NAME YOUR BLOG:
Blog Title
Blog Address (This may take several tries, according to what is available.)
Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"
STEP THREE - CHOOSE A TEMPLATE
Select the template you want.
To get a sneak peek, click "preview template". This can be changed at any time.
Click the ORANGE arrow at the bottom of the page. (Use the scroll bar at the far right to scroll down and find it.)
I will teach my blog class here post by post so that you can all follow along and learn how to do this.
Each of you who want to take this class will decide to make a blog of your own. It's up to you what you do with it after the class. You can delete it, not delete it and ignore it, or you can use it.
The purpose of the class, however, is to learn how to use blogger and ultimately do a community blog together, as Stella has proposed.
Please follow along and I will teach you step by step how to use blogger.
________________________________________
The first thing you need is an existing email address. If you're looking over someone's shoulder now and you want to do this but don't have an address... make one.
Next go to blogger.com
Follow the instructions "Create a blog in 3 easy steps"
Throughout this process, always look for a button or arrow in ORANGE.
As we go through this process, I will refer to my http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ as an example of the elements you will encounter.
Click "Create Your Blog Now" (the ORANGE arrow)
STEP ONE - CREATE AN ACCOUNT:
Enter:
Email address
Password
Retype password
Display name (see http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ My display name is "A Collection of Writings")
Now type in the wobbly word that you see
Check that you accept the terms of service
Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"
STEP TWO - NAME YOUR BLOG:
Blog Title
Blog Address (This may take several tries, according to what is available.)
TIP: Remember that if you are going to share your address with others, it needs to be memorable, spell-able, not a bunch of weird characters, underscores and stuff like that. If you are just doing this as a test, feel free to name it whatever you wish. Those other things won't matter if you don't intend to share it. Like you can make the address http://my_super__test-blog.blogspot.com/ It would be hard to tell someone, "Hey, go to my underscore super underscore underscore test hyphen blog dot blogspot dot com"
Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"
STEP THREE - CHOOSE A TEMPLATE
Select the template you want.
To get a sneak peek, click "preview template". This can be changed at any time.
Click the ORANGE arrow at the bottom of the page. (Use the scroll bar at the far right to scroll down and find it.)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Purpose
It is my desire for our family to offer questions and answers to the political and spiritual and moral issues of the day -- especially by pointing out the principle involved in any said issue, where those principles come from and the consequences of any given action. I would hope it would be short, sweet and to the point, although longer 'speeches' can be partly hidden on the website so that people can read more if they wish to do so.
I would hope all of us would be involved in refining the purpose, goals, markets, methods, name, etc. etc....What do you think? Star [my nom de plume for this website]
I would hope all of us would be involved in refining the purpose, goals, markets, methods, name, etc. etc....What do you think? Star [my nom de plume for this website]
The "Why" of a current issues blog
Well, I think this is a fabulous idea but where is Star's blog? I see it in one place but can't post a comment about it because it is not accepted or actually posted or something like that. So, here was my comment to her attempted blog:
When Star talked to me about this idea she used the phrase "the bottom line" and I like that because I don't thing that people (in general) stop to really think about the why of what goes on in our world. We have the what everywhere we look whether we want it of not but the why eludes most people, I think. It least it eludes me most of the time. B:)
When Star talked to me about this idea she used the phrase "the bottom line" and I like that because I don't thing that people (in general) stop to really think about the why of what goes on in our world. We have the what everywhere we look whether we want it of not but the why eludes most people, I think. It least it eludes me most of the time. B:)
Monday, March 24, 2008
Blog Sample
Dear Family :
This is a Blogger web log. It is a free blogging site that we could use for our commentary project that Stella was talking about.
Please feel free to log in and see what it's all about. The blog can be set up to have several authors, so each of you would sign in with your own access code each time you enter a post. It can be set up to be commented on by a select few, only "blogger" customers, or anyone. There are filters to make sure that you aren't spammed, and you can review them so that you don't get unwanted content in the comments.
You can post pictures... like this:
You can change fonts, colors and sizes. You can make links within a posting.
You can make block quotes:
You can post You-Tube videos, mp3s and other urls, like this:
It has numbering:
and bullets
It has "lables" which categorize each posting. You can list several lables. I would suggest one lable is the author's name and then add a couple for the topic.
The detail we determine is important, becasue too much detail might make the searches ineffective, not enough will do the same. See the bottom of this posting for the lables I entered. If there were several postings, clicking on one lable will bring up all postings with that lable... in date order. A good example of how lables work is in my familiy blog. Click on a lable and see how they come up.
If you want to explore this, email me requesting the password and I will send it to you. Sign in and do a sample posting to see what all is available. We can discuss whether this is the format we want to use for our forum.
It is free, versatile and user friendly. It can be administered by even the least technical among us. We don't have to submit our postings to someone who has the knowledge and time to do all the HTML, uploading and account administration. It is automatically entered into the search engine records, so you don't have to figure out how to apply for that.
To browse the possibilities, look on my blog site with the eye of "what can this do?" I made that site when it was less versitile, so you would also benefit to see my "Yellow Ribbon Club" blog to see what new things are available. Go to the links on the side of lovestheonlyhouse to go to other sites. Some are blogs, some are just links to other sites that I use. Also, click on"View Profile" and see the other blogs I have.
One final thing: we will have to have a web address for it. My personal family web page is http://lovestheonlyhouse.blogspot.com. We will have to have something more descriptive, general and easy to remember and spell than "besherse" for the web address, which is currently http://besherse.blogspot.com This decision will have to be made together, I imagine.
Kim
This is a Blogger web log. It is a free blogging site that we could use for our commentary project that Stella was talking about.
Please feel free to log in and see what it's all about. The blog can be set up to have several authors, so each of you would sign in with your own access code each time you enter a post. It can be set up to be commented on by a select few, only "blogger" customers, or anyone. There are filters to make sure that you aren't spammed, and you can review them so that you don't get unwanted content in the comments.
You can post pictures... like this:
You can change fonts, colors and sizes. You can make links within a posting.
You can make block quotes:
And God told Grandpa Solomon, "You're not lying to a man." That night he went home and spelled himself a verse. By the time I was around, he was reading the Bible completely through every year.
- Larry Besherse
You can post You-Tube videos, mp3s and other urls, like this:
It has numbering:
- blue
- black
- red
and bullets
- orange
- yellow
- white
It has "lables" which categorize each posting. You can list several lables. I would suggest one lable is the author's name and then add a couple for the topic.
Example: Kim, abortion rights, homelessness, absent fathers.
The detail we determine is important, becasue too much detail might make the searches ineffective, not enough will do the same. See the bottom of this posting for the lables I entered. If there were several postings, clicking on one lable will bring up all postings with that lable... in date order. A good example of how lables work is in my familiy blog. Click on a lable and see how they come up.
If you want to explore this, email me requesting the password and I will send it to you. Sign in and do a sample posting to see what all is available. We can discuss whether this is the format we want to use for our forum.
It is free, versatile and user friendly. It can be administered by even the least technical among us. We don't have to submit our postings to someone who has the knowledge and time to do all the HTML, uploading and account administration. It is automatically entered into the search engine records, so you don't have to figure out how to apply for that.
To browse the possibilities, look on my blog site with the eye of "what can this do?" I made that site when it was less versitile, so you would also benefit to see my "Yellow Ribbon Club" blog to see what new things are available. Go to the links on the side of lovestheonlyhouse to go to other sites. Some are blogs, some are just links to other sites that I use. Also, click on"View Profile" and see the other blogs I have.
One final thing: we will have to have a web address for it. My personal family web page is http://lovestheonlyhouse.blogspot.com. We will have to have something more descriptive, general and easy to remember and spell than "besherse" for the web address, which is currently http://besherse.blogspot.com This decision will have to be made together, I imagine.
If you have any questions, email me and let me know!
Kim
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