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
This is a sample of a comment that can be left by anyone.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Can we create our own accounts on blogger.com and still write on "your" blog with editor privaliges (sp?)? (Where is the spell check button?)
ReplyDeleteInstead of logging on as you (like I am now), I tried to create my own account but since besherse.blogspot.com already exists, I would have had to create an additional blogspot.
KeB
You can create your own account, but that is not necessary. You can be added to this account as an additional author.
ReplyDeleteSpell check is only in the posting window, not in the comment window. Try a dictionary. hehe :)
This communication will hopefully get us to a point where we can all decide on a website name. For example, ourvoice.blogspot.com... or something that makes sense that people can remember that is not already taken.
If you want to create your own blog beyond this one, that's great. They are really not very hard and a fun way to manage different things like hobbies, family communication or businesses, etc.
How many "additional authors" can we have on blogspot? because it would be cool to have each of us be able to leave a pic and a short little something about ourselves....although we all kinda know eachother...so maybe that isn't needed. Betty:)
ReplyDeleteBetty, I'm not sure if there is a limit on how many additional authors there can be. I happened by a sports blog one time that had each author's picture next to their postings each time. I thought that was kinda cool. I think it's a perfect idea for this community blog to have the authors' little bios on the side. See my blog http://myyellowribbon.blogspot.com to see how you could put pictures and brief bios along the side of the postings.
ReplyDelete- Kim