Using blogs
Use blog posts to express ideas or opinions and get community feedback. If you've got something to say, you can write it in a blog.
- Use your blog to express opinions, call attention to noteworthy items you've seen (such as an article on the Internet), or make proposals.
- Because other people can comment on your blog posts, they are a great way to pitch ideas that could impact the team or the organization. Of course, you can comment on other people's blog posts, too.
- Your community might include several blogs, for example, "Bill's Blog" (with posts from Bill) or "The Human Resources Blog" (with posts from people in the HR department). Your administrator can also create personal blogs and associate them with particular people or teams.
- If you want to see some of the blogs in your community, go to Your Avatar > Your Content, select All on the left, and then click Blog Posts. You can see the latest blog posts from around the community.
Adding blog posts
To start a new blog post:
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> Blog post and write a post.
If you haven't created a blog before, you get a choice between setting up your own personal blog and posting in a blog belonging to a particular place. Place blogs typically relate to the subject matter of a group or space.
After you've written some content and decided where to publish it, you can also decide whether to publish it right away by clicking Publish, or whether to schedule it for a later date. Select Schedule when this post gets published and then select the time and date you want.
Managing blogs
When you manage your blog or your place blog, you can create new posts, view and post comments, import content from an external blog into your Jive blog, subscribe to your blog's comments, and set other options.
To manage your blog:
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Go to your avatar > View Profile.
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Click Content and click on your blog's name to go to your blog's home page.
Note: You may not see your blog if you haven't created any blog posts.
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Click Manage in the Actions list on the right.
If you are a place owner, you can manage your place's blog, too. From your place's landing page, go to the gear icon > Manage > Blog.
- Managing blogs When you manage your blog or your place blog, you can create new posts, view and post comments, import content from an external blog into your Jive blog, subscribe to your blog's comments, and set other options.
- Designing blog posts You can choose to add visual elements to your blog post, including images and an enlarged initial capital.
- Importing content into blogs If you have content from another blog that you want to bring into your Jive blog, you can import it. Jive supports blogs in the Movable Type format.
- Creating custom blog stream You can use these steps to quickly create a custom stream for all your favorite community blogs.