Quick blogging tutorial

Greetings students!

This is you friendly webmaster/media parkour who is assisting Dr. Sue with this blog. She's asked me to post a quick tutorial to help those of you who might not be very familiar with this whole blogging thing. Below is a list of stuff that will hopefully make the process easier.

1. Create a Gmail address for your group and send it to Dr. Sue. That way, she can add you as collaborators on this blog and you can freely post and edit this blog to make it uniquely yours.

2. After your group is added, an invitation will be sent to the e-mail address you created... so check that and accept the invitation!

3. To post, log in at blogger's main page (blogger.com). In your "Dashboard" you will see "Women & the World" and a bunch of options underneath like: "New Post, View Blog, Posts, Settings."

Click "New Post."

Enter a title for your post (e.g., scissorsisters introduction) and then a description for your group (or if this is after you've already introduced your group, a post about your group's project).

If you want to add a picture, click the blue-ish square button next to the spellcheck button (ABC) in the top toolbar. Then upload the desired picture.

Next, towards the bottom you will see "Labels for this post." This is important. Enter some descriptors here to identify your post, separated by commas (e.g., diversity, work, globalization). For your first post, however, in which you are introducing your group, you should put "yourgroupname - INTRO" so it can be easily accessed from the blogs navigation menu. In every post you create after that, there is no need to have INTRO after your group name, so only your group name is fine (in addition to the other descriptors for your post).

Hit "Publish" to save it to the blog. Then you're in business.

4. To comment on a post, there is a link below each post that says "comments" with a number in front of it (to show how many comments there are for that particular post). Just click that "comments" link and it will allow you to comment on the particular post you're on.

I hope this helps. If you have questions/concerns practice using the "comments" function and leave me a comment. I will try to help out as much as I can. Have fun!