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#Some use blogging to socialize. There is a large community of genealogical bloggers who have become fast friends, reading each others’ blogs, giving encouragement, even getting together at genealogy conferences for dinner or drinks. | #Some use blogging to socialize. There is a large community of genealogical bloggers who have become fast friends, reading each others’ blogs, giving encouragement, even getting together at genealogy conferences for dinner or drinks. | ||
#Blogs make great organization newsletters. Members of your society, user group, or genealogy organization can sign up for e-mail notification of blog posts. Editors can post meeting announcements, articles, reminders, and so forth. | #Blogs make great organization newsletters. Members of your society, user group, or genealogy organization can sign up for e-mail notification of blog posts. Editors can post meeting announcements, articles, reminders, and so forth.<br><br>In this presentation, we’ll focus on these uses for blogging: <br><br> | ||
#Blogs are an easy way to publish information on the Internet. Remember that book you’ve been planning on publishing about your family? Yes, I understand you’re still refining the material before publishing it. Well, while you’re perfecting it, you should share it on your blog. Then others can benefit from your work, review your conclusions, make suggestions, offer new information, and more. Plus, blog posts can always be revised as you touch up your research findings. Try that with a book! | |||
In this presentation, we’ll focus on these uses for blogging: | #Before message boards, there were newspapers and newsletters that published genealogical queries. “I’m researching Paul Raymond, b. abt 1770, d. abt 1845 Bristol, Vermont. Please contact me.” Membership had its privileges and joining a genealogical society always came with a couple of credits for queries in the society publication. Blogs allow you to post all your dead ends, for the entire Internet world to see and to respond. Unlike message boards, you can revise your queries; even delete them, as your research progresses.<br> | ||
#Blogs make a great research log. In fact, the word blog is a contraction of web log. By putting your log on the web, you’ll have a copy of it wherever you go. Never again will you find yourself at a genealogy library without a copy of what records and sources you’ve already considered. | |||
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== Principles and Philosophies == | == Principles and Philosophies == | ||
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Click on ''Design'' in the bar at the top of your blog to change the design and settings of your blog. | Click on ''Design'' in the bar at the top of your blog to change the design and settings of your blog. | ||
=== Design | [[Image:DesignLink.png|center|601x139px]] | ||
=== The Design tab<br> === | |||
*'''Page Elements''' | *'''Page Elements''' | ||
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*The template designer is full of choices which we don't have time or space to cover. Here are some of the most helpful settings.<br> | *The template designer is full of choices which we don't have time or space to cover. Here are some of the most helpful settings.<br> | ||
*Maximize the column width of your blog by clicking on Layout, then Adjust Width, and setting the width to | *Maximize the column width of your blog by clicking on Layout, then Adjust Width, and setting the width to the maximum value.<br> | ||
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=== Settings | [[Image:AdjustWidth.png|center|600x206px]] | ||
=== The Settings tab === | |||
*'''Basic''' | *'''Basic''' | ||