Work with blogs

Use blogs and blog libraries to provide news and commentary on a variety of subjects pertinent to your intranet and extranet sites. Blogs and blog libraries typically combine text with graphics and links to other blogs and Web sites. Entries that you create and post are arranged in reverse-chronological order, with the newest entry displayed first. Readers can post comments about your entries, fostering discussions and online networking. You can manage your own blog entries and comment on other blog entries. Tip: Use a blog for sharing information on a single subject. Use a blog library to share information on multiple discussions.

• Learn about the template libraries used by blogs and blog libraries

  Blogs and blog libraries use the template libraries provided by IBM Lotus Web Content Management. Blogs use the blog resources and blog solo templates. Blog libraries use the blog resources and blog templates. The page hierarchy that is provided for these components is the common one defined by the Web Content Management template libraries.

• Add a blog or blog library to a page

  Add a blog to a page to collaborate with your team on a single topic. Add a blog library to a page to collaborate with your team on multiple topics in a centralized view.

• Add existing blogs or blog libraries to a page

  You can add a JSR 286 Web Content Viewer to a page to point to an existing blog or blog library on the site.

• Assigning blog access to users

  If you are an administrator of a blog or blog library, you have Manager access and can assign Editor access to other users who need to create and manage blogs within the site. If you are the owner of a blog or blog library, you have Manager access. You can also add posts and edit and delete any post on the blog site that you own. If you have Editor access to the blog template library, you can create a blog or blog library. By default, all portal users can view content in a blog or blog library once it has been created. All portal users can also add comments to blog posts.

• View blogs and blog posts

• Deleting a blog or blog library

  If you are the owner of a blog site, you have Manager access and can delete any blog, blog pages, comments, or blog posts on the site that you own.

Parent topic:

Work with preinstalled Web content

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Work with wikis
Administer content libraries

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