How To

General tips for posting text & images

check out this slideshow tutorial:

Embed video

  1. find a video on YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo or just a Quicktime file somewhere on the web
    or
    Upload your video to one of these services
    (if you prefer using another service let me know and I’ll give you specific directions to embedding on our blog)
  2. copy the URL of the page where you found the video
  3. click one of the respective icon in the editor (you tube, google video…)
  4. paste the url in
  5. Click ok

Embed a slideshow presentation from Slideshare

  1. Go to Slideshare.com
  2. Upload / Find the slideshow you want to embed.
  3. copy the ‘embed wordpress.com’ tag
  4. paste anywhere on your page
  5. delete the ‘id=’ and the ‘&doc=’ and the ‘&w=’ and the number that follows before the closing bracket, like this:
    [ slideshare id= 104829 &doc= how-the-social-web-came-to-be2646 &w=425]
    so you get [ slideshare id doc] - italic text to be replaced by its value
    (make sure there’s no space between the text and the brackets I put it here only for the sake of the example)

Embed audio and an audio player

  1. upload or find an MP3 file on the web
  2. copy the url
    [ audio:http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3]
    (make sure there’s no space between the text and the brackets I put it here only for the sake of the example)

Getting images next to your comments

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars - is a way to get your image in the comments and be able to tie a face to the name. If you want to get one, just go to Gravatar.com and sign up with the same email you’re using in this blog. The image you upload there will appear in our blog and other blogs supporting Gravatar. as simple as that. Enjoy.