Blogging for Beginners 2007   Tutorials

 

Our Yahoo! Group

 

• Bookmarking the site (webpage developed by unrelated association)

   

• Updating your Yahoo profile

   

• Setting your mailing preferences

   

• Adding your photo to a group album

   

• Adding your record to a group database

   

• Adding data to the group calendar

   

• Getting your photo to show up on the Members page

   

• Adding a link to the group folders

   

• Unsubscribing

   

Synchronous Communication

 

• "If it's ... GMT, what time is that for me? "

   

• Yahoo! messsenger

  This is a text, audio and video chat tool. However, if you're on a Mac, the voice feature won't be available. 

   

  Especially recommended:

  a. Customizing message text

  b. Setting your archiving preferences

  c. Viewing your archives

   

• Skype

   

• Alado

Our Frappr Map

Adding your photo to the map

Remember Frappr only accepts .jpg files up to 2MB.

Need to convert your file (e.g. from .gif to .jpg)? Try http://www.zamzar.com .

Need to resize your picture? Try http://www.resize2mail.com/.

Some members have reported it might work better to try using Internet Explorer (instead of Mozilla or some other browser)

Blogger

How to Create an Account

How to Start Posting

How to Post a Comment

How to Get Your Photo to Show on Your Comments

1. Go to the Dashboard of your blogger
2. Click on "Profile"
3. Find Photograph (photo URL)
4. Add the address for an online picture of yours (to get its url, go to the photo, right-click it and the url will be in properties, copy it and paste it in the photo space)
5. Scroll Down and Save Changes

The next time that you comment on a blog, you should be able to see your photo by your message.

How to Migrate to the New Blogger Safely & Edit Your Template Easily

How to Change your Template

How to Put a Logo in the Header of a Blogger blog

Bellusci, Claudia (2007). Put your logo in the header of a Blogger blog [Slideshare tutorial]. Retrieved February 14, 2007, from http://www.slideshare.net/ClaudiaB/put-your-logo-in-the-header-of-a-blogger-blog/1

Works fabulously!

How to Delete a Blogger Blog

If you ever really, really want to.

Picasa

http://google.picasa.com/

How to Start Using Picasa

How to Upload Images from Picasa to Blogger

Easy Thumbnails

A free tool to resize your images.

How to Use It  

Dafne Gonzalez' tutorial.

Other Media to Include in Blogs

How to Create a Bubbleshare Album with Voice Comments 

Create a slideshow and record your voice comments and post it in your blog.

Odeo - A Novice User's Guide

Podomatic - A Novice User's Guide

Snap Preview Anywhere (TM)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)