From Sunny the note I sent out to you all about blog!

Dear Friends of Progressive Government,
My friend David has been asking me for a long time to set up an official blog. I have resisted it because I really don't know what I am doing. All this time, since our coming together as a team for Kerry-Edwards, I have been serving as a resource for those of you who wanted to remain connected with like minded and caring people . It seems that the group has tapered off a bit and yet I haven't heard from any of you who want to be taken off the list which I ask from time to time. So, I thought this would be an interesting experiment and here we go. From now on I am hoping you will send articles and information that you think others would find interesting and informative to the blog as well as raise issues that are concerning to you.
Here is the way to go to the bolg that is called The Sunny Side (Political News for the Friends of Progressive Government)
Just go to http://progressivegovernment.blogspot.com/ and make comments. I have signed you all in as people who can use the site and if you have any problems please write me at Sunnyg45@aol.com or sunnyg45@gmail.com . I have been working on this the last few weeks and trying to iron out all the bugs. I am going to send you my dear and patient friend David's input and help with all my difficulties. However, before I do I want to say thank you to Hank, Kathy from MO , Justy , Ed and Anne, those of you who dove right in and began talking to each other and sending wonderful information. It is all there and categorized as my friend Joe from GA says,"I think you want to go with David's suggestion. It will store and organize all of your old posts so that you have an archive and a place to find all of your writing, organized and searchable and navigable by date or category. You'll find it even easier than email in no time! " I don't know but it is getting easier and more exciting day by day. I find myself going to the site quite often and reading and catching up on the debates and the issues and things from people I really have grown to care about and trust, and that is you guys.
So here it goes, I am passing on all info I have been accumulating from David the originator of this site for the last few weeks of my mess ups. Thanks for bearing with me David,and please join us in this exciting political time. Of course, if you don't want to that is your prerogative but I love clicking on comment, in case you couldn't tell and think you will too!
Love from The Sunnyside moving on up to progressivegovernment.blogspot.com

From David in trying to help me with the blog, the whole long ordeal but I learned!!!:

If they want to comment just go to the blog
progressivegovernment.blogspot.com and go to the upper right corner
and select "new post". Easy as sending an email, and faster since the
post is immediate instead of you having to do the legwork.

To place a comment, you go to the
bottom of the post and click on "Comments". Then you enter your text
and click on "Publish your Comment". Did you try that? I just
entered a comment for this article and now under the article it says
"1 Comment ....David Tussey".

Okay. Try this.

1. Go to blogger.com
2. If not logged in, log in
3. Click on "Settings"
4. Click on "Permissions"
5. Click on "Add Authors"
6. Enter the emails of the people you want to be able to add content
(I think you can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas),
and then send them an Invite.

See if that works. Is this what you wanted to do?, i.e. allow more
people to post?

On 10/29/07, Sunnyg45@aol.com wrote:
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> I am trying so hard! Just confused on how to get people signed on and
> comfortable with the new process.
> S

Looking great. I'll have usage figures for you each day (every 24 hrs). later I'll show you how to get those. Will be fun to see who reads the posts and from where. Also, we can work on getting broader distribution of your Blog.


I do hope people get in the habit of posting themselves, either an article, or a comment to an article. That would, I think be so much easier on you, and disseminate the information more quickly. Please let me know if anyone has such problems.


The reasons I want to help you on this, is I believe greatly in the message and want to get it to millions. Seriously.


so we're in this together, and can surely make a little blog succeed! :-) David


On 10/25/07, Sunnyg45@aol.com wrote:
You have been so patient and great. Thanks David and I hope it works. After I learn more about it I think it will be fun.I am learning to just go to http://progressivegovernment.blogspot.com/ and it pops up.


FromDavid:

go to http://progressivegovernment.blogspot.com/ and make comments. I added a link to "Obama for President". It's easy to add links. You go to "customize layout", "add page element"...and there is a page element called "Link List". You open that and add-in the web site address. There's just the one now, but you could add others, such as " draftalgore.com" or whatever. ;-)

The postings look great.


All right. I entered most of them. There are some bad email addresses in this group, and a bunch do not have emails, they're just aliases. To add these, you'll need to find their emails
and then go to the blog and select "Settings" and "Permissions" and paste their emails into the text field. Then hit "Invite".

They'll get an email like this:


The Blogger user SunnyG has invited you to contribute to the private blog: The Sunny Side.

To contribute to this blog, visit:
http://www.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=2155404799892677537&blogID=1737095563035190470

You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation and start posting to this blog. If you don't have a Google Account yet, we'll show you how to get one in minutes.

To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.

I sent Hank and invitation to be an Editor on your blog. Guess you can do this under "Settings...Permissions". You can send out many invitations for people to write articles on your blog, which may be what you want. Give it a try.

Still beats you have to collate all the emails, I think.
Yes...but you can do this yourself. Go to your blog, sign in, and make a new post. I'll do this one, and look how it goes.

That's right.

You send an email to your group that says...."I am posting on my blog, progressivegovernment.blogspot.com. Please go there and submit comments".

They do not need to send anything to you anymore, and you don't have to distribute it anymore. They can post their comments directly to the blog, and everyone can go to the blog and read everyone's comments. And you don't have to be the person in the middle.



Here's how a Blog works.

1) The owner of the blog (you) makes a post. You do this by going to blogger.com and logging in. Then you can "Create a post".

2) Other readers comment on your post. They do this by reading the blog at progressivegovernment.blogspot.com and clicking on the "Comment" tag at the end of the article. They don't send emails to the blog. They go to the blog and post a comment to an article that you have posted. This way the comments are associated with a particular article, and they're indexed, and archived..

Does this help? The Kay Barnes article is posted.


On 10/22/07, Sunnyg45@aol.com < Sunnyg45@aol.com> wrote:
I don't know how to organize it. I just tried to post some new stuff and two got on but the newest about Kay Barnes event didn't. How do I send out to let people know I am doing this?Do they send direct to blog now. I like it but so many questions.
So your blog is at http://progressivegovernment.blogspot.com/

You're the blog owner, so you can make posts, and other people make comments. Right now, the comments are open to your blog group from before. It's pretty easy to "add a post". Give it a try.

And the way friends view your posts, besides going to the web site http://progressivegovernment.blogspot.com/ anytime they want, is to scroll to the bottom and subscribe to the "Post". This will set up a feed for "The Sunny Side" that is updated daily. You can read the feed by clicking on the little orange square that typically appears in the browser, or the "Feeds" tab in favorites (sounds harder than it is).

So give it a try. There is a bit of a learning curve, so I'll be here to help you out. Oh...and you can certainly change your profile or picture, color, theme, etc. Just go to "layout" or "edit profile". You'll see.


On 10/21/07, Sunnyg45@aol.com wrote:
Wow, you are something else. It is so neat but scary and will I be able to do it. You can walk me through and we can try it why not. Just got amazing article from LA friend I'll send you!