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Help Sheet – ACES Blogging (Feel free to improve) 1 of 7
About the ACES BlogsWhat is ACES?The Adult Community Education Services group known as ACES was established to bring a focus to the delivery of Adult Programs and Services in West Australian Public Libraries. Another key aim is to provide mutual support and a forum for the sharing of expertise for all librarians and professionals interested in adult literacy and communities and how library programs and services can support this.
The ACES Blog?
We have two ACES blogs.
The ACES-WA blog is an online space to ask questions, read ACES related news, support your colleagues and share your expertise. This is the web address:
http://aceswa.wordpress.com/
You can read the blog without becoming a member, but you will need to join up to post questions or leave comments.
You can get the posts in your inbox, as a member or non-member. The easiest way to do it is click on the ”ACES Email Subscription” option on the RH side..
The ACES- PP blog is only open to invited members to read, as it contains contact information about authors, illustrators, presenters and providers for adult programs and services. Once you are a member, when you login at Wordpress, you will have the option of easily accessing either blog. This is the web address
http://acespp.wordpress.com/Remember: You won’t be able to view this one unless you have been joined up as a member.
New to blogging? Have a look at this very short animated video – it is brilliant and explains the world of blogging in simple terms everyone can understand.http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
It’s easy to join the blogs! Just ask one of our administrators to send you an invite to one or both blogs:
Paige LuffEmail: [email protected]
Email:
Email:
Once you have received the email then followed the instructions on how to set up your login, you will be made into an editor.
Read through the following pages for information about how to contribute to each blog, and how you can contribute.
The ACES Wiki is still available for future collaboration and discussion and for the storage of more detailed information about issue areas of importance to Adult Service provision.
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Add your news and opinions to the blog by writing a post. If you want to write a post, you need to go to www.wordpress.com and login with your username and login. Then you go to the Dashboard, or click straight on the posts option. Make sure you go to “add a new post.”
Your posts can be about all kinds of things – an event at your library, news about resources, books or websites, information about successful programs.If you just want to read the blog, you can go to http://aceswa.wordpress.com/
There are a few different pages on the ACES blog.
The main Home page is where people read and comment on the posts.As an editor, you can publish and edit posts and pages, add categories, tags, links, and add images and files to your posts.
All of these things are done by using the Dashboard and clicking on the options down the left hand side of the page. You will see them on the site on your posts, and on the right hand side of the page.
How to login, to write and publish a post
Remember, you must be a member to write a post, and you need to login at the main wordpress website. See the screen below – you login in the top lefthand corner of the screen, entering your username in the lefthand box, and your password.
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The next screen will have tabs at the top in the grey navigation bar that say My Account, My Dashboards, New Post and Blog Info. There is also a tab underneath the wordpress.com logo that says My Blogs.
Browse under each heading to see what you can do:My Account: gives shortcuts to editing your profile, logging out, and a link to the support page which helps you with any questions about how to use the blog.
My Dashboards: will list the dashboards of each blog you are a member of, click on these to be taken to the dashboard.
New Post: this is a quick way to add a new post to any of the blogs you belong to.
If you click on the My Blogs tab, it will list all the blogs and their web addresses, with links underneath to the main things you will want to go to: dashboard, posts, comments and pages.
If you want to visit the site, you can click wherever it says ACES WA Blog, or visit site.
How to write the post
Click on New Posts in the grey navigation bar at the top of the screen.Choose which blog you are writing for and click on that blog.
Complete the add new post form: write the, then enter your post. You can add links into your post, and email addresses too. You can also add photographs and documents. On the right hand side of the screen there are two very important things to add.
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Categories: these are like broad subject headings, for example ACES Meetings, Fiction Focus, PLWA Projects etc. You can add extra categories to make sure your post can be searched and found by category.
Tags: These will help people when they are searching the blog – think of words you might look for yourself,as though you were searching Google.
Once these have been added you can publish your post. You may wish to preview it first to pick up any typos.If you see any mistakes after it is published, click on edit this and have another go.
How to add an image or file to your post:
Above the box where you type your post are a few symbols next to the words Upload / Insert.
The box is to add an image, the film is to add a video, the notes are to add audio, the star is to add media, and the circle is to add a poll.
When you get to the point in the post where you want to insert a document, click on the box to add an image. The document can be a word document or a pdf or jpeg. Follow the instructions on the screen, then preview the post to check it all works. It can add the document as an image or a link.
To add a photograph, you use the same process.
Other options under the Posts heading on the Dashboard are Edit, Add New, Categories and Post Tags. As an editor you can influence which categories are used and how they are displayed.
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Useful Websites or Links
If you have found a great website, let everyone know by adding it as a link. The links appear on the ACES blog on the right hand side of the screen as Useful websites, and there are different categories of these. The screen shot about shows just some of the Useful Websites categories.
You can add a link from the Dashboard, following the instructions under the Links heading. Click on Add New and follow the instructions – it is similar to adding a post. Enter the name of the website, then make sure you use one of the Useful websites categories. If you don’t like the categories supplied, add a new one.
Other Dashboard stuff:Pages – you can add a new page or edit an existing one. To be done in consultation with the steering committee or administrators of the blog.
The administrators can change the Appearance of the blog, including the layout, and what appears on the screen. They have information about the Users, and can invite people to join the blog.
Other pages on the blog:
About
Where this information about accessing the ACES Blog and the ACES PP Blog is kept.
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Using the Blog
This page explains how to use the blog. You cannot post comments on this page.
About the ACES PP Blog
This second blog is an online space to add contact details for authors, illustrators, presenters for adult library programs, and review and suggest performers and providers
You need to be a member to read or post to this blog. Why? Because we are listing performers and authors private contact details, we have kept this blog for members only. We’d also like you to be honest in your reviews.
Why can’t we have a paper list of presenters like we used to?Because any hard copy list goes out of date very quickly, and relies on one person to keep it updated. By having this information online and accessible to many people, the responsibility is spread among lots of people, and we can all keep it up to date, and share information about great new presenters.
Please ask one of the Administrators listed above to join you to the blog.Note: you cannot subscribe via RSS feed to the ACES PP blog.
How to add a post to the ACES PP blog, also known as the contacts blog.
Click on New Post
There is a standard format to use when adding a presenter to the blog. It can be found under the categories on the right hand side of the website, called Guidelines on adding a presenter, or you can cut and paste these headings.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE:
EMAIL:
WEBSITE:
COST:
EVALUATION:
RATING:
Copy and paste this into the post. Use the name of the presenter as the heading for the post, and also as a tag.
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If you can’t remember how to add a post, click on the Guidelines for Entries under the categories.
Add a category for your presenter. You can use more than one.
Publish your post. If you need to make any changes, click on edit this.
If you notice any changes that need to be made to other posts, you can edit them as well and update addresses or email addresses, or add a comment about the presenter.
To check if the author, illustrator or presenter has been entered before, or to find information, you can use the Search box at the top of the page on the right hand side. Type in their name and click on Search.
If you don’t know the name, click on a category to search for presenters under that heading.
Add a quick post to the YPS blog to let people know you have been adding info to the WAYPS WHO blog.
Keep on Blogging
Remember to comment on other people’s entries, so we get a variety of views.
Remember to add any new performers you have at your library to the ACES PP blog.
Read the “Using the Blog” page if you are having troubles email one of the administrators above.
