Welcome to Booksaurus!
Hello and welcome to the book group blog of us. By this point I will have invited you all to join this blog, and in doing so you will have been made a "moderator". If you completed the process, you have now become a blogger! Congratulations!
I thought we could use this weblog as a (permanent) hub for our thoughts on the books, where we want to eat, reviews of restaurants (if we're so inclined) and other news and things. Like, for example, did you know that they're making a movie of the Time Traveller's Wife?
What being a moderator means is that you have the right to post to this blog, and it will be read by all (of us and the world). Blogger makes it VERY simple - just click "create" in the "posting" menu (or "New Post" on the "Dashboard" - usually the first place you'd come to when you'd signed in), type in a title, and then type the text into the big white box.
If you'd like to add links, you can do so by selecting the text you'd like to be linked and clicking on the little icon at the top left of the big white box that looks like a globe with a chainlink at the top. If you want to add photos, you can do that too, by clicking on the photo-looking icon at the end of that line. When you're done, click "Publish Post" and let the magic happen.
The other cool thing about this blog is that I've added a list on the left-hand side of the weblog called "Books". I recommend that if we come across a book or think of a book in our daily travels, we add it to this list.
To do this, you'll have to log on to another website - don't worry, this process should be a one-time only thing - called "del.icio.us" (our "booksaurus" de.icio.us site is called del.icio.us/boosksaurus). I'll give everyone the username and password when I see you next, and will talk you through the process.
For the future (and don't get freaked out now, I'll explain EVERYTHING in person!), what you'll do when you find a book you think we'd all be interested in or would like to have considered for the next book selection process, you right click on the page and select "tag this link" from the drop-down menu. That'll pull up a form in another window which you can fill in. I recommend typing the name of the title in the "title" box and the name of the author in the "decription" box. The hit enter and voila, your recommendation is added to the list!
Again, I'll explain EVERYTHING in person, so don't get discouraged!
See you all on Sunday!
I thought we could use this weblog as a (permanent) hub for our thoughts on the books, where we want to eat, reviews of restaurants (if we're so inclined) and other news and things. Like, for example, did you know that they're making a movie of the Time Traveller's Wife?
What being a moderator means is that you have the right to post to this blog, and it will be read by all (of us and the world). Blogger makes it VERY simple - just click "create" in the "posting" menu (or "New Post" on the "Dashboard" - usually the first place you'd come to when you'd signed in), type in a title, and then type the text into the big white box.
If you'd like to add links, you can do so by selecting the text you'd like to be linked and clicking on the little icon at the top left of the big white box that looks like a globe with a chainlink at the top. If you want to add photos, you can do that too, by clicking on the photo-looking icon at the end of that line. When you're done, click "Publish Post" and let the magic happen.
The other cool thing about this blog is that I've added a list on the left-hand side of the weblog called "Books". I recommend that if we come across a book or think of a book in our daily travels, we add it to this list.
To do this, you'll have to log on to another website - don't worry, this process should be a one-time only thing - called "del.icio.us" (our "booksaurus" de.icio.us site is called del.icio.us/boosksaurus). I'll give everyone the username and password when I see you next, and will talk you through the process.
For the future (and don't get freaked out now, I'll explain EVERYTHING in person!), what you'll do when you find a book you think we'd all be interested in or would like to have considered for the next book selection process, you right click on the page and select "tag this link" from the drop-down menu. That'll pull up a form in another window which you can fill in. I recommend typing the name of the title in the "title" box and the name of the author in the "decription" box. The hit enter and voila, your recommendation is added to the list!
Again, I'll explain EVERYTHING in person, so don't get discouraged!
See you all on Sunday!
posted by Aleks | 10:12 AM
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