Blogging 101

I have been blogging for almost a year now. I have found it to be a very rewarding experience as well as a lot of fun.

 

I thought I would give everyone a few very basic guidelines and some simple rules for posting to the Prayer Ministry Blog.

 

1. Since this is a public blog and it is accessible to everyone surfing the Internet please refrain from using last names or any private information such as address and phone numbers in post or comments.
2. Most bloggers will refer to family members with either initials such as:
   

DD (Dear Daughter)

DH (Dear Husband)

DS (Dear Son)

                        Or other bloggers make up fun nick names for their spouse and children.

3. If you would like to share about your experiences participating in this ministry please be aware to only share about your experiences, and not someone else’s.
4. It is perfectly acceptable to give a very brief retelling about a report you may have received from a pray shawl recipient. The guidelines for this are a bit stricter. Since the lives of the recipients and their circumstances are confidential you may share that you had a card from a recipient, but please do not share any details about the circumstances of that person or their name or any other details about their situation. You may share your observations “they really loved the prayer shawl and were very grateful to receive it….. and ask me to tell all of you thank you!” kind of thing. Just remember….
   
1. No names
2. No places
3. Or circumstances
5. Lastly have fun with it. Post pictures of completed projects, if you find a really great web site with lots of fun patterns pass that on or if you just want to pass on a funny story we would all love to hear it.

 

Well that's the long and short of it for now. 

If you have any questions or if you think of something that I did not touch on something or if some of the finer points need to be clarified please call me on the phone or send me an email.

 

If you have any basic blogging questions such as 

how to post, 

how to upload a picture or video, 

how to place a link in the body of your post, 

what labels are… 

just give me a call and I can talk you thought it! 

 

Now get blogging.

 

Blessings

Robin