Saturday, August 7, 2010

Blogging Lesson

Pursuant to our discussion at our EC meeting this week, I think my first (second?) post should be about how to do this, which JoAnne asked about. So here goes:

Connect to ecreferral.blogspot.com. Scroll down the page. If you're not listed among the contributors at the bottom, you can't post yet. But you can FOLLOW and READ! So click the follow link at the very top and you will get an email every time someone posts so you can read the post, and when you become a contributor you'll be able to post in response. This will help us get a conversation going as we fertilize each other's minds. Then blogging won't seem like such a forced exercise.

So, to become a contributor, Peter, as the blog originator, needs to designate you as a contributor, which he is planning to do for all of us. He references your email address to do that.

Once you're a contributor, you can sign in and post.

To post, first sign-in by clicking the sign-in link. If not obvious, you will at least find it in the drop down menu attached to your picture (or picture placeholder). A window will open giving you the option to sign in using your Google, Twitter, or Yahoo account. Click the one you want to use. Or if you have none of those, there's a link to create an account. A new account will be a Google account since blogspot is hosted by Google. This will also give you access to the other features of Google, but that's another story.

Having signed in, there will now be a "New Post" link at the top of the page near where the "Follow" link is/was. Click that and you will get a box where you can dispense your wisdom, muse on anything including someone's prior post, or ask for enlightenment.

Do not be paranoid about what you write. These are not etched in concrete. You can edit them after you post them.

If any of this does not comport with what you see, let me know and I'll correct it!
Happy blogging!