WEB LOGS (BLOGS)

Web logs (blogs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Using the blog template (dominoblog.ntf), you create a blog application, such as myblog.nsf, which you can then open as you would any other Notes NSF file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.

You can use one template to create a number of blogs, and maintain consistency across the templates. Then, if there are updates to the template, you can update your template design without losing any of the customization.

Although you can use Notes to add content to a blog and manage it, you can also add content using a Web browser, and you can manage your blog using a default Web browser client from Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

Feed support

The blog template (dominoblog.ntf) supports tagging and provides an automatic feed to sites like Technorati using the tags you specify. The template also supports audio and video feeds using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a special XML format for syndicating Web content.

You can make an RSS feeds available for all podcasts and content, including categorized content, so that blog readers can choose areas of interest to subscribe to. You can make the RSS feed available for any comments added to the blog, so people can stay current with threads they are interested in.

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