Welcome Smeagol

We have a new member whose nickname is Smeagol. I will help him with his blog. Smeagol if you have blog things you need help with and I am not online just post them here and someone may be able to help.

The next thing we will do when you are ready is make a test blog.

About Us.

The Demo Blog is a volunteer run training blog. We teach the basics of blogging with Blogger. This all started in November of 2004 when a blogger asked for help. Several of us offered help and I started this blog to make things easier for us.

Our Goals:

• To make blogging fun and easy for new bloggers.
• To provide a community for new bloggers.

Rules:

• Help other members if you can.
• Treat others with respect.
• If you become a member and want help - expect to do some work on your blog.
• This blog is for assignments, ideas, and 'work' related posts.

Benefits:

• Help from fellow bloggers.
• You may post photos to Our Photoblog if you wish.

Method:

• Members create a test blog and invite me as a member. Then they promote me to admin so I can show them exactly where links, etc, can be placed.
• We usually work in the test blogs although instant messaging has proven useful in the past.
• Members state what they want and we discuss ways of doing that. We work in the test blogs and then each member recreates the work in his or her blog.

Guidelines:

We are all busy, but new members should check in about once a week. This gets you used to posting regularly.
This may look like a lot of work, but its not really. As a member you do what you can when you can.

Old version

November Theme set at OPB.

So post away.

Happy Anniversary!/November Theme

On November 1st, 2004 this blog became a group blog and I invited Gale and Lou to join. Later on Christine, Keith and others joined. Things are quiet now, but we have had some busy and fun times. This blog started many of my online friendships that are still going strong. Thanks everyone. Happy Anniversary.

To commemorate this we could have "Old and New" as our November theme at Our Photoblog. We could post pics from the last year that we haven't posted before and we could post new pics too. This would allow those of us too busy for photography to participate.