Blogs at Penn State Community

The Blogs at Penn State allows you to send an e-mail message to selected users when an entry is published. You can send e-mail to a group within your Notifications list or to a custom set of addresses for each entry. This can be useful within a course blog to notify students or a project blog to notify users of updates.

To Send a Notification

1. Log in to http://blogs.psu.edu and enter your blog.
2. Click New Entries to begin an entry or Entries to enter an old entry, then complete your entry
3. Within the Entry screen, click the Notification tab to the far right above the title. A Send a Notification window will open.
   
4. Enter e-mail address in the Recipients field. Multiple address should be written with one e-mail address per line or a list separated by commas.      
5. You can enter a message for the recipients in the Message to recipients textbox.
6. Check the option for Entry excerpt if you want a quote to be included in the e-mail message. 7.
7. Check the option for Entry body if you want the entire text of the entry to be included in the e-mail message.
8. Click Send entry notification to send the message.
   

Enter Address into Notifications List

1. Login and enter your blog.
2. Click the Notifications button to the left.
3. Click the Create New Notification link; a green entry field will appear at the top of the screen.
4. Enter an Email address, then click the Add Recipient button.
5. Repeat Steps #3-4 for each e-mail address.
6. To delete a contact, check the name of the user, then click the Delete button at the top.

Send Notifications to Contacts in Address Book

1. Write and save an entry as in the “To Send a Notification” section above
2. Click theNotification tab to open the notification window.
3. In the Send a Notification window, make sure the top Recipients option for “Notification list subscribers” is check.
   Note: If you do not see this checkbox, please click the Notifications tab and make sure you have entered at least one e-mail address.