Olli Bloggers

Fast Pass

2005-11-18T14:29:00.000-08:00

I am Anton the Time Traveller. Here I go to old San Francisco, etc.

Judy's Vancouver

2005-11-18T14:20:00.000-08:00

Good Evening, this is Judy at the camera helm.

Sheet Metal Boogie

2005-11-18T13:59:00.000-08:00

Scan Sample

2005-11-18T13:35:00.000-08:00

Plan for the Last Class!

2005-11-14T11:39:00.000-08:00

Dear Olli Bloggers:

Writing & Blogging: Final Class (#4) November 18, 2005

First Hour:

1. Scanning Images & Texts to your blog – An Introduction.

2. Counting your readers - Getting on board with Sitemeter.
(To log on to the class Sitemeter record, go to:
http://www.sitemeter.com
Log on:
S21StephenV
Password: DINEDA

3. Please use any remaining time to ask any tech questions that you may have.

Second Hour:

We will continue the presentation of blogs by Members. Time permitting, last week’s presenters may present again – particularly if you have made changes or discoveries that you think will be of interest.

These presentations will also provide the opportunity for members to make suggestions to fellow bloggers on ways in which each person’s blog site may be enriched.

For a portion of the class, OLLI will take some photographs of members presenting their blogs. Please let us know if you do not want to be photographed.

Please do not forget to write a class evaluation - the form for which we will provide. We have been pioneers on the OLLI blog front! Your suggestions and concerns, as well as creative ideas for alternative and/or additional approaches and possibilities, will be most appreciated.

It is a delight to see us all with such a great diversity of blogs and interests. Who would have ever known!! I wish you all the best for the holidays – with all their various ordeals and pleasures!

Please feel free to stay in contact with me. In addition to blogging concerns, I am also available employment under my various other hats. If interested, contact me for either:
1. Editorial development support on your ongoing or emerging writing projects. I have 40 years background as a publisher.
2. Tutorials & workshops: Poetry, Essays, Memoirs. I have both published and taught in each of these genres. If you are stuck - either in developing an idea or in the writing itself, I can get you rolling!

My email remains: steph484@pacbell.net. Send your phone number, and I will give you a call.
Thanks again.

Stephen Vincent

Anna's search for photos

2005-11-11T15:33:00.000-08:00

Here's
the
photo
I
found
on
flickr.com
today
- Anna

homeless blanket

2005-11-11T15:15:00.000-08:00

2005-11-11T14:54:00.000-08:00

Useful Blogging Web Sites

2005-11-11T11:41:00.000-08:00

I have found the following web sites personally useful in blogging, and have tried to ranked them in order of their importance. Hope you find them helpful. This posting is a work in progress. Nick Maffei.

http://blogsearch.google.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.technorati.com/

Weblog Technologies

SFGate Culture Blog

Blogging for Dollars – BusinessWeek Online

http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/

SiteMeter

http://www.blogarama.com/

http://www.livejournal.com/

http://www.audioblogger.com/

SquareSpace

WebMonkey HTML
Basics

Handbook for Bloggers

Tomorrow's Class - Friday, November 11

2005-11-10T13:44:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow we will work to accomplish 4 things!

1. How to embed links on your site. (Nick Maffeis' note to Betty Traynor - below - is a helpful start!)

2. Explore Yahoo/Flickr as a way to store your digital images, as well as reflect and size those images on to your own blog.

3. If we have time, we will explore utilizing "sitemeter" on this site, as well as on your own site as a means to count the number and source of visitors. If you want to get a head start on this for your own blog, you may do the free sign-up & registration at: http://www.sitemeter.com

4. PLEASE take the opportunity to explore each other's blogs. As much as we have the time, I want to give people the opportunity to critique and support the development of each other's site.

If you have any questions, frustrations or concerns, please email me direct:
steph484@pacbell.net

Embedding links on your blog site!

2005-11-09T11:47:00.000-08:00

Hi Folks: Here is a very articulate note from Nick Maffei on the way you can embed links to other articles and images on your website. His note was directed to a question by Betty Traynor:

I created several types of links on my weblog at:
http://nmaffei.blogspot.com/

One is a photo of Bill Clinton that links to the Clinton Foundation Web
site. I first uploaded the clinton.jpg photo to a new posting, then
highlighted the photo and clicked on the insert link icon. This opened
up a dialogue box that allowed me to enter in the web address for the
Clinton Foundation.

The second link connected to the Clinton Presidential Library. Here I
just typed in the reference to the Clinton Library, then highlighted
the text and clicked on the insert link icon. This opened up a
dialogue box that allowed me to enter in the web address for the
Clinton Library.

This is what you should do.

1. Create a new posting
2. Type in the reference topic (e.g., The Labor Temple)
3. Highlight the text (e.g., The Labor Temple)
4. Click on the Insert Link Icon (the green chain)
5. Type or paste in the URL address of The Labor Temple document
6. Publish Post

Thanks, Nick.

By the way, it has been pleasureful to visit all of your blogs. Wonderful and various stuff is emerging.

Stephen Vincent

Mary Beth

2005-11-09T08:45:00.000-08:00

I am missing Mary Beth's blog address and email.
Mary Beth - if you are reading this - if you can, please send in the info.
If not, email me and I will see what I can do to help you get on down the blog road!

Stephen V

The new blog Links

2005-11-07T18:39:00.000-08:00

I have just completing inputting the links that I have. Witness them to the bar on the right! Please check to see if they work.
Mary Beth, can you send me your full blog site url. (....blogpot.com)? Then we can set up your link.

I suggest everyone visit each others links. You may use the comment box to comment directly to someone's blog, or you may use the email list below to set contact the person privately.

Have fun!

Stephen Vincent

Links and Comments

2005-11-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

Hello Class Members:

1. I am working on the "Link" list! I had a small crash this morning, and have to go back and redo the inputs. Ah, the Blogger learning curve!

2. For Anton and others who want to limit "comments" to their blogs, go to Help for Blogger for advice on the various ways you can either limit - as we do here - comments to a "team":
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=123

Or, where you can "moderate" in advance as to whether or not you want to accept a comment.

I sugges reading all of the "Help" in relationship to "comments", or other areas you want to explore.

Thanks,

Stephen Vincent

Stephen Vincent blog link

2005-11-04T16:03:00.000-08:00

Stephen Vincent is a clown

Jottings by Judy blog Link

2005-11-04T15:54:00.000-08:00

Judy created a link to her blog: http://www.JottingsbyJudy.blogspot.com

Stephen's Blog II

2005-11-04T15:52:00.003-08:00

http://stephenvincent.net/blog

Gretchen's Blog

2005-11-04T15:52:00.002-08:00

http://agingboomergirl.blogspot.com/

Stephen's Blog II

2005-11-04T15:52:00.001-08:00

http://www.stephenvincent.net/blog

Stephen's Blog

2005-11-04T15:52:00.000-08:00

http://stephenvincent.net/blog

Judys" Jottings

2005-11-04T15:47:00.001-08:00

Judy created a link: http://www.jottingsbyjudy.blogspot.com

Betty's Link

2005-11-04T15:47:00.000-08:00

Betty created a link to her blog: http://www.northmissionsfhistory.blogspot.com

2005-11-04T15:42:00.000-08:00

blogger

friday in the afternoon

2005-11-04T15:09:00.001-08:00

Hello Olli Blog Classmates,

I had to create a new blog today, as last week's blog's login & password were "lost" immediately & I rec'd lots o' spam in the email address I used.
So, my new blog name is: Tea Novels in the afternoon

and the link to view my blog is: http://teanovelspm.blogspot.com/

and my email address is: aberdick@earthlink.net

I'm blogging about literature, reading and English novels, specifically, but not exclusively, favorite writers of mine who happen to be English and women and write novels.

- Anna

the Frog on a Log in the Fog on a Blog

2005-11-04T15:09:00.000-08:00

there once was an erudite frog,
who was dozing one day on a log,
as he woke from his sleep
he said, "man, that was deep,"
so he posted his dreams on a blog.

...ag

Link example

2005-11-04T15:06:00.002-08:00

blogger

Judith Anne Ott

2005-11-04T15:06:00.001-08:00

My email address is: judithanneott@mac.com

Gretchen Addi

2005-11-04T15:06:00.000-08:00

Gretchen Addi
gaddi@ideo.com

Renee Golanty-Koel

2005-11-04T15:05:00.000-08:00

rengol@csus.edu

Nick Maffei - Email

2005-11-04T15:04:00.000-08:00

nmaffei@yahoo.com

marybethnemetz

2005-11-04T15:03:00.001-08:00

jewels10102002@yahoo.com

Betty Traynor's E-mail

2005-11-04T15:03:00.000-08:00

btraynor@rcn.com

Charles Francis -email

2005-11-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

email: charlesfrancis@sbcglobal.net

Post your blog site address

2005-11-04T14:39:00.000-08:00

anton grosz' email address

2005-11-04T14:36:00.000-08:00

agrosz@fredricmae.net

Questions from Renee Koel

2005-11-04T12:07:00.000-08:00

Since I was late to class, here are several questions:
>
> 1. Is a blog page a lesser version of a web page?
> 2. How would bloggers come to a newly developed blog page?
>
> Thank you,
> Renee G. Koel
>

Nick Maffei - Nov. 1, 2005

2005-11-01T16:38:00.000-08:00

Hi,

My name is Nick Maffei and I am the Teaching Assistant for the Writing and Blogging Class.

This is my first posting at our class weblog.

My weblog is located at: http://nmaffei.blogspot.com/

Also check out my personal web site to learn more about my computing background, teaching experience, and world travels. http://www.nmaffei.com/

My email address is: nmaffei@yahoo.com

Nick maffei

Log On Directly to the Class Blog

2005-11-01T09:16:00.000-08:00

In terms of making entries on the Class Blog, I suggest two (2) options:

1. You can log on directly to the Blog. Please ask your questions, or introduce an idea or discovery you have made while using your blog. For example, class members will be interested, I suspect, in any "short cuts" you have made in terms of using the blog technology. Alternatively, you may have found a search engine or data base that may be of support to someone else in the class.

To log on directly: email me for the user name and password.

2. You can continue to use the class limited "comment" boxes to make a direct response to my or someone else's main entry.

Stephen Vincent
Personal Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog

Welcome

2005-10-31T10:21:00.000-08:00

Welcome members! It was a pleasure to meet you on Friday.
I was happy to see everyone set up their own blog.
This will be the "Class Blog." I will make announcements here. It will also be the place
where you can raise questions for your class mates, or, alternatively, provide responses to questions. This will be a mutual learning experience.
If you will, please introduce yourself to the class!
I suggest responses to the following questions:
1. What are your specific interests - particularly those with which you want to serve on your own blog. (History, culinary, political, creative.)
2. What are the kinds of people that you want to attract to read your blog.
3. What are the kinds of blogs and other web sites to which you would like to connect,
or, as folks say, "to link."

Let's start from there and see how are blog works.
And please leave your blog address so members can take a read or look at what you are doing.

Thanks,
Stephen Vincent