Create a blog entry

We can contribute to any blog for which you have owner, author, or draft permission. The autosave feature resumes the work on entries in progress.

The permission that we are granted by the blog owner controls whether we can post an entry directly to the blog or whether we can create a draft entry that must be approved by the owner before it is posted. The permissions are :

• Owner permission allows user to post entries, manage the blog and its users

• Author permission allows user to post entries, but not to manage the blog

• Draft permission allows user to save draft entries only

As you create or edit an entry, the work is automatically saved every 15 minutes, unless the site administrator changes the interval. If we leave an entry in an unsaved state when we log out of Blogs, the next time you log in, a notification reminds you you have an unsaved entry. From that notification message we can click Edit to open the entry and resume work on it, or Discard to delete the entry.

1. Open the blog to contribute to, and click New Entry or click the New Entry icon on the Public Blogs page.

2. Enter a title for the entry.

3. Enter the text for the entry.

4. Enter tags for the entry. Tags are keywords that we can assign to describe the content in the entry. Tags make searching for content easier for blog readers. Tags must be entered as single words, or multiple words that are connected with hyphens or underscores. For example, social-bookmarking, status_reports, and payroll would all be valid tags.

5. Click Advanced Settings to control these settings:

   • Allow characters to be converted into emoticons.

   • Delay posting an entry to a blog until a time and date specified.

   • Limit the number of days for posting comments for the entry.

   • Specify a custom URL– that is, we can enter some text that replaces the entry title in the URL that points to this entry.

6. To include an external media link, such as a video, in a feed that includes this entry, enter the URL in the External media URL field. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2j0YOqKoo. When this entry is posted and viewed from a feed reader, the media is available in the entry.

7. Click Post to publish the entry to the blog or Preview to review the entry before you post. If we have Draft permission, the options are Submit for Review and Save as Draft instead of Post. If the blog is moderated, which means that content must be reviewed and approved before it is published in the blog, the post is not visible in the blog until a moderator approves it.

• Add an image to a blog posting
  Enhance the blog postings with image files.

• Add a video to the blog post
  We can include a video in a blog post to make it available to readers.

• Edit or deleting an entry
  If we have the appropriate permissions, we can edit an entry to change the content or status, or to delete it from the blog.

• Use third-party blog editors to create entries for the blog
  We can set up the blog so that we can use a third-party editing tool to create blog entries.