I know that you sent out some 232 invitations , how many of those have answered ? And can I search for a specific person among those invited ? I mean in some ( Heidi’s page f.ex )
pages you have a guestbook & missing persons , does this “searchform” exist in a blog ?
Have patience with my questions …..please…….. I’m just thinking that a blog might be too complicated ?? !!!
Love to all Liberians
Ann

I found this Liberian blogger today. The last post is from June 24. What happened to him?

Hej alla Yekepabloggers. Vill bara testa hur bloggen fungerar just nu.

We have had the question “now that I am a registered member of the Yekepa blog, how do I see the other members?”

That is a good question….we think of the blog as two pages – one is the public page at http://yekepa.digitalfarmers.com/ and the other is the page where we can see all member bloggers and enter text in the form that appears on the blog – this is at http://new.blogger.com/ That page is just the main entrance point to blogs, and entry into the Yekepa specific blog happens with the buttons at the right of the panel. Once you have been in a button appears on the right for the Yekepa-blog-enter-text page, but the first time you may have to tell the page your login and password (the ones you gave when you accepted the invitation).

Whew! This is hard work to explain. It is easier to DO than to explain, but getting started seems to be complicated.

Anyone getting stuck is welcome to write to Peter Thejll directly and ask questions. Click here.

I guess the best would be if there was a way to blog – enter text – right at the public page. Can any of the other administrators offer a hint on how to do this? Jörgen?

So, 232 invitations to join our blog has been sent out (the entire list of emails we could salvage from ourmailing list). Lets see how many sign up now!

Dear Friends,
we have added some new material to the Yekepa site. You can find it here.

We have also made some changes to the Yekepa site. When you go to the link for the site you will find a new look. (You are looking at the new site!)

The ‘old’ site is still around of course, but has a new link.

If you like, make a fresh link to the ‘old’ site and all will be as in the old days.

However, we did lose that mailing list we had, and it was useful for distributing news about new materials, so we needed a replacement. We have found a replacement in the concept of a ‘web log’ or ‘blog’, for short. This is new stuff and is worrying us – first of all we are not sure how it works, and second we do not seem to be able to get anyone else to use it.

Nevertheless, we must try – evolution is good for you, they say.

So, what is a ‘blog’? Well, it is an Internet site where registered members can add messages, or messages containing links. Therefore, we could use the blog to announce new material on the Yekepa site. All the members could use the blog to talk to each other. A blog is safer than a chat site because it is monitored all the time and we, the administrators, can remove anyone missusing the membership.

There are two ways you can add materials to a blog – one way is by being a registered member and adding text to the blog, for all to see. The other way is to use the ‘Comment’ button below each message and add, yes, comments. Anyone can do that – registered member or not. Comments are smaller pieces of text and appear only of you click the Comment button under messages, and the appearance of a new comment is only known by the change in the little number in front – so blogging is easy to share with others whereas commenting requires alert people who hunt new comments! Blog is good, comment is baaaad.

Well, how do you become a registered member? This is by invitation only. Some of you have already received such an invitation, but you need to respond to it, not by saying ‘yes please’, but by reading the whole invitation email and do what it says – it comes down to clicking on a link in the email and thinking of a login and a password. After that you are a registered member of a blog, and you can add your own messages to the blog page.

I would like to encourage those of you who receive invitations to respond by registering. We will be sending more invitations out by and by.