Mama Liz's Blog: What do I Do Now? --- # 2 of Series for New Active Rain Members

 If you missed What Do I Do Now --- #1 of Series for New Active Members, I would suggest you read it and accomplish those items prior to reading this post.

There are several issues I would like to cover today:

1) When you see words or phrases in this post that are underlined and blue in color, this means that you may just click on it and go to the actual place.

2) Something I didn't learn for several months after I started my blog ---the difference between a blog and a post --- I can't tell you how many times I used the wrong word.  So, here goes -- A "Blog" is made up of several "posts"  --- a blog is sort of like a diary ---when we write articles and post them to the blog, they are called posts --- for example the name of my "blog" on Active Rain is "Mama Liz's Blog"and on the blog, I write articles and when I publish them, they are "posts" -- you will see if you look, that as of now, there are 417 posts on my blog.

3) You need to join some groups -- go to your home page and at the top of the page, you will see "Groups" -- click on this and it will bring up the list of the groups (there are almost 6000 groups) -- may be difficult at first, but remember you definitely want to be in the Active Rain Newbies group.

4) Next step that I would suggest --- you have set up your profile and you have been reading other posts -- now, let's write a post for your Active Rain blog.
  
5) Do Not worry about it --- just write anything --- write about real estate in your area, write about your feelings on a particular subject, write about your family, if you just cannot think of something to write about --- well, write about that.  This post written by my friend, Midori Miller back in July, What Should I Blog About on Active Rain? is well worth your time to read.

6) Be sure that when you write your posts, that you make short paragraphs or even bullets --- makes it so much easier to read.

7) Make your post between 200 and 500 words ----

8) I wrote a post back in April 2009 "How Do I Get Started with Active Rain - Your Primer"  --- you should take a look at it --- it has all of the basics about the different aspects of actually publishing a post on your blog -- like, what are groups, categories, etc.

Enough for you to digest for one time --- stay tuned for the "What Do I Do Now -- #3 Series for New Active Rain Members."