I just threw this together using Blogger. What do you think?
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 8:54 am and is filed under Blog discussion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Hey, this is interesting! I think the only way to really understand blogs and their options is to try to set one up yourself. This one just took me a few minutes.When you get a chance, could you go to this page: (I tried to make a link but it didn’t work) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog_software, and pick one type of blog software (or from anyplace else you’d like) and try to set one up yourself? Don’t take a lot of time, but in filling out the settings you’ll be able to see how things are put together.Laurie, I guess the only way to figure out the HTML tags is to try them. Can anyone figure out how to make a link that actually works?blogman, thanks for all the good info! Maybe you’d want to try out WordPress?
May 21, 2008 at 11:26 am
Ok, Nancy, here I go. Hmmm, so far, not bad. Is there a certain limit to the number of words a comment may contain?
Guess I’ll find out what the comments look like with/without tags. Do paragraph tags or line break tags make a difference?
(I was told to that paragraph tags are not allowed, but line breaks are.)
Gotta go, but thanks!, this was my first blogging experience. I had a good time.
May 21, 2008 at 11:59 am
TX for the invite, this is a great idea. My first blogging escapade! So, EMails are generated as well as the blog comment?
I was looking around this AM to find some info on blog software and if restricted to internally only — but nothing specific found so far.
Did find some interesting info/praise about WordPress over Movable type:
entrepreneurs-journey.com/120/choosing-the-best-blog-software-wordpress-is-winning
And, info from UMD about internal and external policies — may or may not be helpful for the tekkie group:
lib.umd.edu/itd/web/blogs
And, something from ITBusinessEdge about using blogs to an organization’s advantage both internally and externally.
Hope this goes thru.
May 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Already messed up – forgot to add the URL for ITBusinessEdge:
itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=290
Bye.
May 21, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hey, this is interesting! I think the only way to really understand blogs and their options is to try to set one up yourself. This one just took me a few minutes.When you get a chance, could you go to this page: (I tried to make a link but it didn’t work) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog_software, and pick one type of blog software (or from anyplace else you’d like) and try to set one up yourself? Don’t take a lot of time, but in filling out the settings you’ll be able to see how things are put together.Laurie, I guess the only way to figure out the HTML tags is to try them. Can anyone figure out how to make a link that actually works?blogman, thanks for all the good info! Maybe you’d want to try out WordPress?
May 21, 2008 at 1:17 pm
PS I set this blog up with email notifications. I found that since I restricted the blog to just us from the team, RSS wouldn’t work.
May 22, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I just removed the email notifications. Did you think they were annoying or useful?
June 18, 2008 at 7:56 am
I thought they were useful! I guess it would depend on how active the blog is.