Blogs at Penn State Community

You must have activated your Penn State Personal Web space in order to use the Penn State blog service. To activate your personal Web space, go to http://www.personal.psu.edu/, then click the Apply for Web space on www.personal.psu.edu link. Note that there is a three-business day turnaround for this process.

This page describes how to create a blog. Once that is done, you can write and publish your first post.

To create a new blog

You can view the video or read the how-to text:

1. Go to to http://blogs.psu.edu and click Login to New Blog System. The first time you log in, you will see the System Overview page.
2. In the Create menu on the top, select Blog.
   Note: If you do not see the Blogs option in the Create menu, go to the top white location tab and select System Overview.
   

3. Enter a Blog Name in the Settings window (e.g. “A Test Blog”). This will be name on the top of the blog page.
4. You can change the directory name in the Site URL as needed.
   Note: You can only change the portion of the name after “…blogs/” and you can only use letters, numbers, dashes and underscores.
5. Click Create Blog at the bottom to finalize the process.
   
6. Click the Write Entry button to write and publish your first post.