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Once registered, you'll receive a special number. Call it, leave a message and it's immediately posted to your website as an MP3 audio file. To sign up, go to AudioBlogger.com. 3) Email Posting: Post to your blog by sending an email from any email application. To set it up, you'll need to log into your blogger account and go to "settings" then "email." You must specify if you want your posts to publish automatically or be saved as drafts for later publishing. The subject of your email will be the title of your blog post, with the email body making up the rest of it. 4) Team Blogs: This allows groups of people to contribute to one blog. One person must create the blog, then invite others to join in. 5) Templates: Blogger has over 30 templates to choose from. Make sure you back up your blog before attempting any changes. There are also third party template providers you can choose designs from. See: BlogSkins.com BlogDesigns.com 6) Blogger Toolbars: Google has one built into its toolbar that makes it a snap to post to your site while visiting any webpage you might want to comment on. Firefox also has a toolbar of its own with blogging components. See it at FireFoxToolbar.com or Google's at Toolbar.Google.com. 7) Feeds: Blogger users can syndicate their content via an Atom Feed. Former Blogger Pro suscribers can choose between Atom and RSS formats. You can find this feature in your Blogging account under "settings," then "site feed." If you'd rather syndicate in RSS, your only choice is to use an outside service like FeedBurner.com. 8) Comments: If you'd like your readers to participate on your Blog, you'll want to turn on "comments." Found under "settings," you can choose from preferences like allowing anyone to post a comment, allowing only regular users to post comments, or allowing only members of the blog to post (if it's a team blog). 9) TagBoards: Different from comments, TagBoards also allow your blog readers to post comments. These act more like a discussion board or chat room for your blog. However, they're not aimed at individual posts but attached to your entire site. You'll find frëe providers of this service at: Tag-Board.com ChatterBox.com This is a great way to add a feeling of community. 10) PhotoBlogs: If you'd like to share a lot of photos with your readers on a regular basis you may want to add a "photo album." You'll find many sites that offer this frëe service such as: Shutterfly.com Ofoto.com DotPhoto.com 11) Polls: Do you know what your readers think? Running polls on your site is a great way to get inside your readers minds and get them involved with your blog. A few frëe poll service providers are: FreePolls.com PollHost.com BraveNet.com WebPollCentral.com 12) Advertising: If you'd like to run ads on your blog and get paid per clïck, you'll want to look at Google Adsense. Since Google owns Blogger too, they make it simple to add their advertising to your site. See, http://tinyurl.com/3j3k8. 13) Camera Phones: If you have a SprintPCS cellphone with a built-in camera you can send your pictures directly to Blogger. You'll need to set up an "email address" to post to. For instructions, see Blogger's Help section on "posting via email." On your telephone it works like this: you snap a picture, select "share," pick your specific blogging email address, then ok. Your picture is uploaded. 14) Keyboard Shortcuts: Blogger has many different keyboard shortcuts you can use while making a post. cntrl + B= Bold cntrl + I= Italics cntrl + shift + A= Link cntrl + d= Save as draft cntrl + s= Publish Post cntrl + shift + P = Preview 15) FTP: You can host your blog on Blogger's server, or host it on your own via FTP access. You'll find this option under "settings", then "publishing." 16) Email Posts to a Friend: If you'd like to allow your visitors to email your interesting posts to their friends you can enable this feature under "settings," basic tab, then where it says "show email post links?" say yes. If you'd like to watch some frëe tutorials on "Learning Blogger," see these by Molly Holzschlng at MovieLibrary.Lynda.com. So what are you waiting for? Now that you know all of the really cool things you can do with Blogger, why not experiment. Who knows, maybe there's been a "born Blogger" hiding inside of you all along. 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