On Adding Comments and New Postings
Some of the members of this blog are very new to blogging and have asked for a short primer on adding comments and posts.
You can either create a new posting on the blog, or add a comment to an existing posting.
Commenting
To add a comment, just scroll to the bottom of the post. There you will see "# COMMENTS". The variable "#", of course, will refer to the number of comments already left. If there are none, this is "0 COMMENTS," if there is one comment it will be "1 COMMENT."
If you are viewing the post as part of the main NSGIC Blog page, or a monthly archive page, this text is a link to the commenting form. If you are viewing the post as a stand-alone page (as is probably the case just now), you will also see the text "POST A COMMENT" which is a link to the commenting page.
Follow one of these links to the comment-editing page. You may need to add your sign-in information, if we are set for comments only from members of this blog (your Blogger sign-in). Eventually, I think we will make this open to comments from all, though we will encourage people to sign in. There will also be a "WORD Verification" set, to avoid spam.
Posting New Content
If you are a member of the NSGIC Blog Team of Contributors, you can add new posts! To add a new post, go to http://www2.blogger.com/home and sign in. You should then see the blog listed as "The NSGIC Blog" with some sort of button that lets you add a "New Post." Ignore the blog simply called "NSGIC" if you see it, that's the old address. We're keeping that around for a short time as a "redirect" page.
On the posting page, you'll have a spot for a Post Title, and a link. I don't usually use the link field, but rather put the link in the text of the post.
Your post's text goes into the large text box. This has a variety of WYSIWYG tools that are all fairly self-evident. You can either "Edit HTML" in which case you will see all the html tags, or "Compose" in which case you won't.
You can "Preview", "Save as Draft", or "Publish." Don't worry about messing anything up. I can go in and edit stuff if need be.
I think it is important that we all try to add useful posts and comments to the Blog. It's like a listserv -- only as useful as what it is used for.
You can either create a new posting on the blog, or add a comment to an existing posting.
Commenting
To add a comment, just scroll to the bottom of the post. There you will see "# COMMENTS". The variable "#", of course, will refer to the number of comments already left. If there are none, this is "0 COMMENTS," if there is one comment it will be "1 COMMENT."
If you are viewing the post as part of the main NSGIC Blog page, or a monthly archive page, this text is a link to the commenting form. If you are viewing the post as a stand-alone page (as is probably the case just now), you will also see the text "POST A COMMENT" which is a link to the commenting page.
Follow one of these links to the comment-editing page. You may need to add your sign-in information, if we are set for comments only from members of this blog (your Blogger sign-in). Eventually, I think we will make this open to comments from all, though we will encourage people to sign in. There will also be a "WORD Verification" set, to avoid spam.
Posting New Content
If you are a member of the NSGIC Blog Team of Contributors, you can add new posts! To add a new post, go to http://www2.blogger.com/home and sign in. You should then see the blog listed as "The NSGIC Blog" with some sort of button that lets you add a "New Post." Ignore the blog simply called "NSGIC" if you see it, that's the old address. We're keeping that around for a short time as a "redirect" page.
On the posting page, you'll have a spot for a Post Title, and a link. I don't usually use the link field, but rather put the link in the text of the post.
Your post's text goes into the large text box. This has a variety of WYSIWYG tools that are all fairly self-evident. You can either "Edit HTML" in which case you will see all the html tags, or "Compose" in which case you won't.
You can "Preview", "Save as Draft", or "Publish." Don't worry about messing anything up. I can go in and edit stuff if need be.
I think it is important that we all try to add useful posts and comments to the Blog. It's like a listserv -- only as useful as what it is used for.
posted by Mike Mahaffie at 8:09 AM
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