Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Posting to your blog via email

Would you like to be able to add new posts to your blog simply by sending an email to it? A couple of people mentioned doing that today, so I thought I'd provide instructions in case anyone else would like to try it.

1. Go to your Blogger account.

- Go to www.Blogger.com
- Sign in with your user name and password

2. When you sign in, it'll take you to your Dashboard where you'll see your blog listed.

3. You should see some links for managing your Posts, Settings, and Layout. Click on the link to Settings.

4. Once in your Settings area, click on the Email button

5. Now go to the area labeled "Mail-to Blogger Address". This is where you'll create an email address for your blog.

- All you do is enter a word of your choice in the field. Keep it short and simple, but keep it private. Then you may want to write down the entire string so that you don't forget what it is.

6. Hit the SAVE SETTINGS button - and you're done.

Now, any time you want to dash off a quick message to your blog, simply open up any email account, and mail your message to the new address you just created. Give it a try!

- Lesa

2 comments:

Marie Slaby said...

Wow, Lesa--You're doing so much work for us by monitoring/mentoring all 80 of us as we work our way through 23 things. Thanks for taking the time to comment on our blogs and give us tips. Now I'll just have to figure out how to add photos to mine so that my page can have a bit more BLOOM!

Lesa said...

Thanks! It's actually been a lot of fun looking at them all, though I'm relieved that everyone didn't get their blogs done all at the same time! - Lesa