Welcome to the Blog

A review of what was in the email, so you don't have to flip back and forth once you've logged in...

Posting:
To post a new discussion, follow the link “new post” in the very top right corner. Enter your topic title, text and label(s) for the post. You will see sample labels to the right – “Flower Area, Food Bank, Irrigation, Things To Do”, etc. We should try to keep some common labels, which will make it easier to read only the topics that you are interested in. That way later you can click on “Irrigation”, for example, under Labels, and it will bring up all of the topics that have been labeled as such. If your post would be appropriately filed under an existing label, please use that one. You can also use multiple labels, if appropriate.

Alternatively, if coming here to post feels like too much, and you just want to post quickly from your email account, you can send an email to Eberggarden.newpost@blogger.com and it will be posted directly. This won’t post with a label, but I will go in from time to time and clean up the site to remedy this. This is a different option for posting to our blog.

You can also post pictures with your posts by clicking on the “add image” box there.

Posting Comments:
This is how Posts turn into Discussions. If you click on any given post, it will bring you to a page showing just the text for that post, and a link to “Post a Comment.” If you are interested in participating in a discussion, please post comments, instead of new posts, so that we can more easily follow the conversation (like an email thread). When you post a comment, you are given the option to receive emails whenever a comment is added to that particular discussion – just click the box before posting your comment and you will stay plugged in on that particular thread.

Calendar:
With the help of Ed, I have posted a Google calendar at the bottom of this page. If you scroll down below the posts, you will see it. It is currently empty, but should be a great tool for things happening. I will post information to the blog soon on how to add an event to the calendar.

One thing I forgot to mention earlier - comments, suggestions, requests, etc. are very welcome. I expect there are folks out there who know a lot more than I do about blogging and/or web miscellany, and also folks who have good ideas about what might make this a more useful tool. Please feel free to speak up - it takes a village, and all that jazz... cheers!