This is a little guide on how to get the best out of this blog. I’m aware that not everybody may be savvy on how to use the web and may find it all a bit new. Hopefully this will help answer some questions you may have and if it doesn’t then you have the freedom to ask more.
A Few Tips
Blog – At a basic level, a blog is an online journal. It’s where individuals, groups, companies etc can do updates about what they are up to. This can be done by articles, video or any other form of media and each blog entry has it’s own title and date when it was published.
Court Lane is a blog but unlike a journal the point is so get as many people to access it as possible. Feedback is not only encouraged but absolutely essential if a blog is to be a communication tool. In order for this communication to happen then all blogs have a way in which people can comment on what they have read, seen or heard.
How to Comment – If you go to the bottom of an entry that you want to give feedback on then (refer to picture on right) you will find “comment.” If someone has already written a comment the you will get the number of comments already added. If you wish to write your own just click on it and it will take you to a page where you can read other people’s comments and add your own.
Other Online Tools
Twitter – You may have heard many folk on radio and television talk about this but you may be asking what exactly is it? At a basic level, Twitter is a service that allows one to communicate with others using 140 characters or less. What you choose communicate about is as broad and diverse as conversation itself and entirely up to individual people.
A great guide on twitter is by Birmingham blogger and general all round good guy Jon Bounds. Court Lane Allotments has a twitter account so if you wish to try it just sign up and join in the conversation.
I hope this little guide has been helpful but if you wish to learn more about the internet and how to use social media tools then try to come along to the free social media surgeries that is held in Birmingham city centre. It’s all very friendly and hands on. You even get food & drink.
The best advice to be given is just have a go. The internet is filled with rather friendly and helpful folk so you won’t be shouted at for not knowing. Communication is the key to everything so as they used to say on a certain advert for a homegrown telecommunications company, “It’s good to talk.”
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