How to Publish to this Site

If you’re logged in, you can post in the forums automatically.  If you want to post articles to the website, you’ll need to go to the control panel.   

Click the “Publish” tab.  (Later, you can Edit what you published, but you’ll have to publish first, of course.)

I’m sure you will be able to figure it out just by exploring a bit.  For Step by Step, read on…

Step by Step

Choose post type

Once you’re logged in at the control panel, click on the “Publish” tab.  Choose the type of thing you are posting.

• If it’s a book you want to link to, click “book”
• If it is something related to a conference, click “Conference Proceedings”. 
• If it’s something general, click “General.
• If it was published somewhere, click “Journal Article”. 

Question:
Should “book” and “Journal article” be combined as “publications”?  Or should these types of publications be further subdivided and set up with specific formats?  A book has different fields from an academic journal or a popular journal.  In the long run, thinking about formats for different types of entries is a good idea.  This concept is explored in http://microformats.org .  Microformats could have some useful applications for sharing data down the line.

Fill in the fields

Note the different fields for each “type”. 
The different post types - book/conference proceeding/general/journal - have different fields.  It should be self-explanatory.  For example, “Journal Articles” has:

• Title
• Authors (of the published article - not the person posting to website)
• Abstract
• Publication name (the full name of the journal)
• Link (is there a place they can access the journal/full publication online)
• Review (what you think about this - what you want to talk about.)

Add additional info using other tabs on the Publish form

You may notice the following tabs on the publish form.
Publish | Date | Categories | Options | Pings | Forum | Tags |  Revisions | Show All

The important ones here are:

Categories:  None have been set yet.  What would you suggest?

Forum:  Please fill this one out to start a forum discussion at the same time as you post the article.  You just need a title, and an initial post.  This will automatically be linked to FROM the article.  Also, note the drop down box below the post.  That’s where you say which forum category this goes under.

Thanks for posting!  Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions or encounter any difficulties.