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An invitation to bloggers

Blogs provide a web space for authors who are willing to share personal experiences and perspectives on their daily life with those wanting to learn from such experiences.

There are several blogs currently authored by members of the Lakeside community -- from personal websites or through archives of photos and email lists and forums.

We'd be happy to provide easy to use tools for those who would share their voice through online journals. Please see the sample blog linked from the home page of this site. Propose a name for your blog, and start telling the world what life is really like at the lake.

Steve and Kenny

There are a variety of tools which make web contributions of graphics and thoughtful commentary about life very easy for community authors. If there is an interest in supporting such a community, MoveableType blog spaces would be available free to authors of the community. These comments could be linked to forums and easily searchable across author in order to benefit site users.

A program called Moveable Type is by far the most popular and widespread blogging software today. We have it available for Lakeside bloggers on a not-for-profit license. Moveable Type is popular because it's easy to use and quite fully featured.

A great gal by the name of Elise provides a terrific website devoted to people who are interested in learning about Movable Type -- but be forewarned that most of what goes under this label is about the complex bits related to getting the sofware to run on a server -- nothing you have to worry about at Chapalaliving.

 

Links on Blogging:
Blogging Basics
BlogBasics
Blogs & Blogging
Microsoft on Blogging

For further information about this site, please contact sciman@chapalaliving.net