Helpful Tips Administering Roles for Community Blogs
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Sign-up steps for creating user accounts for staff and
communities
(This is the same process for adding community users)
1. Have all the staff that will be involved in blogging or blog training or coaching
communities go to http://www.communityblogs.us and sign up for a user account.
• Check the box “Just a username, please”.
• They will receive an email to verify the sign-in. They have to follow those directions within two days.• They will then receive an email with their temporary password.
2. After staff has signed in, sign in with your DO account, go to the appropriate blog
(you have to be in the blog you are adding the people to—you can see in the
upper left corner) and go to the “Users” tab.
• Go to the bottom of the screen (“Add User from Community”)
• Type in their email
• Select the appropriate Role
• Click “Add user”
• Repeat for everyone for that blog
• Repeat for each community, assigning the appropriate coach.
• Give the coaches the Administrative role for now and they can follow the
same procedure for signing up community members.
• Assign the Editor role to the main community blogger.
Summary of Roles
• Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other
people’s posts, etc.
• Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish
posts
• Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters,
etc.
