Blogs at Penn State Community

Is it true that only the "owner" of the blog may originate a posting? Maybe I am missing this in the documentation (hey, as a Mac user, I don't read no documentation), but is it possible to have a sort of group blog through which any from a set of users may originate a posting.

Thank you.....David Passmore

I gave a presentation with Mike Hofherr at the Smeal College of Business TechFest. I spoke to faculty from the College about blogs@psu and how they can integrate into their teaching. I was happy that the session ended up being more of a discussion with those in attendance than just me reciting my spiel. Mike had some good examples of how using blogs increased motivation among his freshman seminar students. Below are my slides, but most of the action happened out of the slides, with discussion and demoing, and looking at examples online.

Has this ever happened to anyone? Hope so, so that you can give me the answer to getting it back. Without it I can't do much of anything, including inserting an image and creating a hyperlink - both necessary for my class.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I don't know about everyone else, I am would love to see more style options for MT4. I am getting tired of the limited options we have and I have been impressed by the sheer number of options for WordPress, which I use for my blog for the Ancient Philosophy Society.

Are there plans to give us access to more style options?

Chris

The issues that some were experiencing with publishing blogs with images and uploading new images has been resolved.

I am leading a study-abroad program in Rome - six hours ahead of University Park time. Trying to post a new blog entry today, I have been able to post text but when I try to insert a picture, the "waiting for blogs at Penn State" message appears and . . . nothing happens. This has been going on for the past 8 hours or so. Is there a problem, or an issue of routine maintenance that we need to know about?

Tom Benson

I have now tried a number of times to schedule a blog post to be published at a later time. I did this by selecting "Scheduled" instead of "Unpublished" or "Published" and then I set the time and date on which I wanted to post to be published. However, when that time and date come and go, the item does not appear. Is there another step I am missing?

Thanks,
Chris

In MT3, the persistent links to my individual blog posts used underscores to replace spaces:

http:// ... /2008/04/this_is_a_test.html

MT4 uses hyphens:

http:// ... /2008/04/this-is-a-test.html

I don't know if this happened because of something I set previously in MT3 or if it was the default. I couldn't find a way to tell MT4 to use the old (underscore) method so I went to each of those underscore files and set up redirects to the new hyphenated version. Google penalizes for this, so I'm wondering if there's a way to tell MT4 to use the underscores again and then rebuild my site.

Hello there,

Thought I'd check back in to see if a potential date had been set for the blogs to be able to use protected space...any word on that issue?

Thanks,
Beth

I'm still finding the ground I feel comfortable standing on as far as being a fairly private person vs. there is some information I do want people to find and comment on. So, I have two very different blogs. The first I'm happy to just have a small following for -- not ready for the big time. The second blog I created is my genealogy. I want this to be findable so that others doing similar research can add to the collective knowledge. It was suggested that I add keywords (over and above tags) to increase the chances of a search engine finding it. I have done that for blog #2, but so far, if I Google for those keywords, there is no hit for the blog.

Recommendations?