Indiana Interdisciplinary Cooperative Coordinators Association

This blog is designed as a tool for the Indiana Interdisciplinary Cooperative Coordinators Association.  In order to take full advantage of all of it’s features, read this first.

Registration

In order to post articles and files on the blog, you must register.  Go to http://www.iicca.net/iiccablog/wp-admin and enter a username and an email address.  The system will send you a password.  Before you are able to post, an administrator must confirm you are a member of IICCA.  Upon confirmation, you will recieve notification via email that you have been granted priveldges to post articles.

Adding Posts

As part of that confirmation process, an administrator will give you author previleges so that the next time you login, you will see the “dashboard”. On the left side of the page you will see the menu.  “Posts” is the first thing on the menu.  Click on “posts” to expand that option.  You will then see “Edit”, “Add New”, “post tags”, and “Categories”.  Click on “Add New”.

There will be a place at the top of the page to add a title for your post.  Below that are word processing controls for Bold, Italics, etc.  There are also icons for Uploading/Inserting Photos, Video, Music, or Media files.  If you have a file to share, you will need to click on one of these Icons depending on the type of file.  Word, Excell, and Powerpoint files are considered media files.  Wordpress does not like Office 2007 documents so if you are using Office 2007 you have to save you document as a 2003-5 document.  When saving your document in Word 2007, do a “Save As” and select “Word 2003-5″ as the type of document in the drop down in the “Save As” Window.

When you click on the appropriate icon, a new window will open where you can browse to the location of the file you want to upload, select it, and click upload.  Wordpress will fetch the file, compress it, and give you the option to insert it into the post.  Click on “Insert into post”

Your file should appear now in the body of the post as a link.  You can add text to the body of the link to explain what it is that you just uploaded, how to use it, why it is good, or whatever you want to say about it.  On the right side of the page, select a category that the post should go into.  There is also a place to add tags.  Tags are important so that the search engine will be able to find you post readily.  If you upload a post on work place safety for example, you should add a the tag “workplace safety”  You can preview the post if you want by clicking on the preview button or just publish it.  As the author you will be able to come back and edit it if you want.

Receiving Posts in your Email

In order for the site to be as colaborative as possible, you should sign up to recieve posts in your email.  The form to do so is in the top left corner of the blog home page.  Enter your email and click “Subscribe”.  A “Feedburner” window will pop up where you will need to type the text you see in the box.  This is necessary to prevent spam.  You will recieve a confirmation email for this process as well.  You will need to respond to that email before you begin recieveing posts in your email..

If you can’t figure any of it out or just don’t want to try, you can always send me what you have to post and I will do it for you.  Your feedback is very important so please let us know how we can make improvements.