Hello,

Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumluating manner, with comments, and search options, etc.

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also on the top page of ZNet - always via the left menu of the top page - and can be found via searches, etc.

Commenting on blogs follows the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments as well as in the forum system. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content for everyone - but one can look at the accumulating content in many ways.

For example one can look at one writer's efforts - so one is seeing what is effectively a blog system for that one writer, or Sustainer. One can also look at the content by topic, seeing blogs that are tagged as being about a certain topic - or place, as well. Thus, when doing that, it is a blog system about a topic, or a place, with many contributors. One can look at only writer blogs, or only sustainer blogs, as well. All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements. 

IF you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will also see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and tag it various ways, and once you do, it is in the system with you are author. You can also use the console button to the left to post a blog - anytime and from anywhere in the site, as long as you are logged in.

Soon there will be another dimension to our blog system. We will have group pages, or you might call them network pages. These will be like ZSpace pages, but for whole groups. The moderator of a group will be able to control the content boxes and menus on the page. The group will have its own group blog as well. This will have other features too, to be seen soon!

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you have a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want, for example, by topic, by certain people, about places, etc.