Sharing your blog URL, inviting Susan and classmates to co-author your blog, and setting privacy to 'authors only'

 I hope your blog turned out to be beautiful, and that you are satisfied with it! (And if you are encountering any difficulties, please email me for help with it.)

1) Once you have set up your blog, please go to the google spreadsheet linked here, and add your name, blog URL and the email address you used to create the blog. You'll notice that I have used my gmail address (gerofsky.byrne(at)gmail.com), not my UBC email address -- please invite me to co-author your blog using the gmail, as this will save time! 

2) After everyone has set up their blog and added their URL and email to the list, you will need to invite me and your classmates to be co-authors on your blog. To do so:

(a) go to your dashboard (by clicking on "Design" or "New Post" on the upper right hand corner of your blog), 

(b) go to "Settings", scroll down to "Permissions", and choose "Invite more authors"

(c) copy and paste the rest the of class's emails (including me), and invite them to be blog authors.

3) You should expect to get 22 'invitations to be a blog author' emails to the email address you've put on the spreadsheet. Please 'accept' each of these on the email, and once again on the web page they take you to. 

4) Once we have all accepted these invitations, we can seal off our blogs so that only class members can find them online and read them. To do this, 

(a) go to the "Settings" page from your dashboard

(b) choose "Reader Access" and select "private to authors"

(c) under "Privacy" click off the button that says "Visible to search engines" 

And that's it! I hope that by week 2 (~January 20), we will have this all completed and ready to share only among our class.  

Tentative reading groups for the course are listed on the course outline. (We will plan to switch up the reading groups, if people would like that, about halfway through the course...)