The Mises Tech Update : Blogging

Get FeedBurner for your Mises.com blog

HeroicLife — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:46:00 GMT

You can easily set up FeedBurner for your blog by going to your Dashboard then Syndication Settings. What is FeedBurner, you ask? FeedBurner is a Google company that lets you do all kinds of things with your blog's feed, including automatically formatting it for any kind of reader, adding all kinds of additional content, and collecting stats on both the feed readers and your blog's readers. See the FeedBurner site for more info. Here is an example of a feed from Mises.com.

How to show the posts from your blog on your profile page

HeroicLife — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:19:00 GMT

This works whether or not your blog is hosted at Mises.com

Click on "Edit Profile"
Select the "About" tab.
In the "Recommended Reading" section, paste the RSS Feed from your blog
Click "Save"

Quick blog tutorial

HeroicLife — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:12:00 GMT

How to get a blog:

Send a request to community at mises dot org.
Optional: Tell me if you want a custom blog URL (default is your username.)

How to find your blog:

Go to Mises.org/Community.
Click on "User Blogs."
Click on "Blogs on this Site".
You should see your blog with your username as the author.

How to add a post:

Go to your blog.
Click "Write a Blog Post"
Write your post.
Click "Publish"

How to change your blog's appearance:

Go to your blog.
Click on "My Blog Dashboard"
Select "Global Settings" in the menu on the left.
Select "Change How My Blog Looks".
Pick a theme, variation, or edit the colors of a particular variation.

How to add links (blogroll)

Go to your blog dashboard.
Click on "Manage Content"
Click "All Lists"
Click "Create New List"
Enter a name and check "Enabled"
Click "Add List Item" for each link

How to change your blog's Title or Description

Go to your blog dashboard.
Select "Global Settings"
Click on Title, Description, and News
Change the title and save!

How to change your blog's URL

You can customize the URL after http://www.mises.com/blogs/. Please contact me with your preferred URL.

How to change the post date

Edit your post.
Check "Advanced Options"
Select "Options"
Now you can change the "Post Date"

Any questions?

Just ask me.

Welcome to the Mises Tech Update Blog

HeroicLife — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:44:00 GMT

The purpose of this blog is to create a forum to communicate and discuss the functionality available on Mises.org/.com. I’ll use it keep you up to date on new features as well as my long-term projects and philosophy on site-related topics. Because the contributors and consumers of the content on the Mises websites are the ultimate “customers”, I encourage feedback and ideas on the direction of my work.