1. ONLY EDITORS CAN MAKE CHANGES TO PROMOTED POSTS
First off, if your blog post gets promoted to the front page, unless you have front-page privileges, you cannot edit your post. If you do so, the updated version will be saved with your privileges and the post will disappear from the front-page. For that matter, make sure you send me or any of our editors the edited copy. We'll be glad to make the update.
2. ALL FRONT PAGE ARTICLES ARE NOW AUTOMATICALLY SHORTENED
I did this to fit more articles on the page. If you don't like where the system automatically shortens your entry you can always change it by putting the following bit of code (but without the spaces) under the paragraph or image you'd like the cut-off point to be:
< !--break-- >
Remember, no spaces if you want the code to work.
3. YOU HAVE TO GO TO YOUR USER PAGE OR WORKSPACE TO START A POST
The side bars were starting to get unruly and for that matter I decided to move the work sections to ... ahem ... your workspace [0] and member page [0].
4. FEEDS ARE NOW IN A SEPARATE PAGE
In my quest to clean up the sidebars, I set up a page with links to all the varieties of feeds to the front page available to you. But we have other feeds as well.
At the bottom of the following sections you can find more targeted feeds :
(a) All the members' blogs [0]
(b) Each individual member's blog. Just go to
http://www.culturekitchen.com/USERNAME/blog [1]
(c) Each category has a page. Click on one of the links found under the titles of entries of go to the categories [1] and click on the link to the category page. At the page you will find the link to the category's feed.
(d) Groups also have feeds! If you want to join a workgroup, go to the groups [1] page and click on the subscribe link next to it.
5. UPLOAD THE COMMUNITY CALENDAR TO YOUR iCAL
At the bottom of the community calendar [1] there is a little calendar button. Use it to synchronize all our events with your iCal. The button only uploads. It cannot download your events.
6. PLEASE ADD EVENTS YOU THINK OUR READERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
And they do not have to be just political events either. We are after all a blog dedicated to arts, culture, politics, and technology.
7. WE HAVE IMAGE GALLERIES. MAKE GOOD USE OF THEM!
People are more liable to read blog posts if they have images. For that matter, we have community image galleries that members can use for uploading images and linking to them. If you need this explained further, please leave a comment on this post.
8. DID YOU NOTICE OUR "LIVE" EMOTICONS?
Just asking. They should appear on the sidebar in all your content entry forms and comment pages.
9. USE YOUR PROFILE PAGE TO PROMOTE YOURSELF!
I am always being forwarded requests for speakers at conferences and forums. Make sure you let us know what you do professionally, how you do it and where.
10. IF YOU HAVE A BLOG AND IT'S NOT IN OUR BLOGROLL, JUST HOLLA BACK!
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