Part of a presentation given to Downtown Georgetown BIA on April 18, 2011, by Media Pull Inc. Instructions for creating a Blogger and Facebook account and publishing a post.

1. Set up a Google Account

3. You can change this at any time.

9. Images should be jpgs, gifs or pngs

15. Add a description of your business

17. Decide here whether comments will be shown or hidden Next, decide who can comment on your blog. Now, decide where comments will appear on your blog.

18. Choose to review comments before they are posted. Where would you like your comment notification email sent?

20. To choose more detailed templates, as well as font colours, backgrounds, etc. click on the Template Designer.

24. These boxes represent the layout you selected when you chose your template. From this screen you can rearrange the boxes, by dragging and dropping them. You can also add “gadgets” such as photographs, surveys, etc., by clicking on the relevant “Add a Gadget” word link.

30. To create a text link in your blog, highlight the copy you would like to link and click on the link button

31. On this screen enter the url of the web site you would like to link to. Make sure to follow the format shown here.

32. Once you have clicked OK, the program automatically changes the link colour to blue and underlines the linked words. To see how your blog will look, prior to actually publishing it to the web, click on the preview button.

34. To add an image to your blog posting, click on the photo button on the editing menu. Click on the browse button to select an image from your computer.

53. To add a post to your facebook page, type in this space (no more than 240 characters).

54. When you are ready to post to your wall, click on the share button. You cannot edit an entry but you can delete it.

55. To add a link to your post, click on the link button, prior to sharing your post. Then enter the url for the web site you would like to link to. Click on Attach.