BlueBroward.org

Come on, help me out here, folks. I’m looking for a few other people to post occasional blog entries here on whatever thoughts they would like to share. It would add variety and generally be more fun than me doing this all myself.

Just log in, click on the “Post a Blog” button on the right side of the screen, and you should ent up at a screen like the one shown below.

You will see that there’s a nice little “rich text editor,” which means you don’t have to deal with HTML coding, you just highlight a world or phrase and click the B button to mark it bold or the I to mark it italic. You do the same thing with the button that looks like a link in a chain to add a link to another website or web page. You’re working in WordPress, one of the most popular blogging tools, so it’s pretty slick.

WordPress editing screen

When it looks pretty good to you, you can click Publish. Or save it as a draft and come back to it later.

If you want to get a little fancier, you can also assign your entry to a category like “Volunteers Needed” or add free-form tags (a tag might be the name of a candidate or a topic not included in the categories list).

Give it a try and tell me what you think.

This is intended as a resource for the occasional blogger, who has opinions to share but doesn’t want to go to the trouble of setting up an independent blog, as well as for the more established bloggers who would like to post here occasionally, if only to link back to material on their own blogs or websites.

This is an experiment for me, too, but all I really ask is that your posts reflect the mission of building the Broward Democratic Party and the grassroots volunteer community. It’s OK to be provocative and stir up a good argument with your fellow Dems. If I have to remove offensive or inappropriate posts, I will, but in general I would rather foster a climate of healthy debate.