If you want to contribute a new blog, follow these steps:

1.       On the homepage screen, select “Community” near the upper-left hand corner.

2.       Select the category in which you would like to submit your blog.

3.       Under “Browse Group,” on the left-hand side, select “Group Blog.”

4.       Under “Group Blog,” select “Create a new entry.”

5.       Enter the title of your blog in the “Post Title” line.

6.       Enter or copy and past text into white space.

a.       If copying and pasting from an MS Word Document, a box may appear asking if you would like to clean it. Click yes.

7.       Click “Save as Draft”

8.       At bottom, click “Publish”

 

To then feature the blog content:

1.       On the homepage screen, select “Community”

2.       Select the folder in which your blog is

3.       Under “Browse the Group” select “Group Blog”

4.       Find and select your blog

a.       If it is a recent post, the blog may appear right away

b.      Or in the “Group Blog” section on the left-hand side, under “Previous Entries” select the month in which your blog is found.

5.       Click “Feature this entry” at the bottom of the blog would want to feature

 

To unpublish a blog:

1.       On the homepage screen, select “Community”

2.       Select the folder in which the blog you want to edit is located

3.       Select the blog you want to unpublish

4.       Click “Unpublish”

 

To edit a blog that has already been published, you must first unpublish the blog.

1.       On the homepage screen, select “Community”

2.       Select the folder in which the blog you want to edit is located

3.       Select the blog you want to edit

a.       It may appear in the “Featured Content” section.

b.      If it is not in the “Featured Content” section, select “Group Blog” from the left-hand side.

4.       At the bottom of the blog, select “Unpublish”

5.       Click “Save”

 

To delete a blog permanently:

1.       The blog must first already be unpublished

2.       On the homepage screen, select “Community”

3.       Select the folder in which the blog you want to edit is located

4.       Under the “Categories” section within “Group Blogs,” select “Drafts”

5.       Select the title of the blog you wish to delete

6.       At the bottom of the blog, select “Delete”

 

To insert a hyperlink in a blog to a full article:

1.       Once you have selected your article, highlight and copy the URL

2.       Go back to the edit mode of your blog

3.       Highlight the word or phrase you want to become a hyperlink

4.       Click the “Hyperlink Manager” icon

5.       Paste the article URL into URL space (Note: Make sure there is one http://)

6.       Make “Target” as “Same Window”

7.       Click OK

8.       Click “Save Draft”

9.       Click “Publish”