VG Staff

To make an account:

1) In Movable Type, access your account settings by clicking on your username on the top right corner of the page. Once there, scroll down and fill in an API password (whatever you want it to be) and save the changes.

2) In Ecto click on accounts, then click add new account.

3) Enter the weblog URL: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg. Click next.

4) In the System dropdown menu choose Movable Type, then fill in the "Access Point" field with http://voices.cla.umn.edu/virtual/mt-xmlrpc.cgi. Click next

5) Enter your Movable Type Username and the API password you just created.

6) Enter your preferred ecto account name (i.e. YOURNAME-VG). Click next.

7) Click next again. Then click finish.

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There are two ways to notify or to be notified of new posts on the blog.

1) RSS (Real Simple Syndication). This is the easiest way to be aware of new posts on the VG Staff Blog. Go visit the blog and click the RSS button up in the URL address bar on your browser OR click the link on the right-hand side bar that looks like this

You have to either use an RSS feed reader in your browser (I use Live Bookmarks in Firefox) or use an online RSS reader like Google Reader. The RSS feed will show all new posts.

2) The other way to send and receive notifications is to click on "Notifications" after you've published a post on the staff blog. That will send an email to all of us with a link to the new post.

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