Calendar

Use a page to share your Google calendar.  I would set up one specific to the blog, not necessarily your personal calendar.  You can make as many calendars on your main calendar and choose one or more to share. http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1186917

Keep them hungry for (More...) Jump break

I was wondering what that meant

Share Buttons

After starting Evolution of a Blogger, I noticed that the share buttons appeared in every post. Do you know how much time I spent looking for a way to do that to first blog http://jeffohara.blogspot.com/??

Well that right there made it worth starting up this new blog.  I am sure it is in a tutorial somewhere that I just have not found yet or did not have the best key words, when I went to search for it. It must have been a new feature since my first lame halfhearted attempt at blogging. Click Edit in the Blog Post section of Layout from the Blogspot dashboard and click the box that says Show Share Buttons and save. If you have a newer blog, it is probably checked by default, so remove the check if you want to disable the share buttons on every post. I suppose if your blog is private, sharing would probably not be a good idea, otherwise, I think most bloggers are either neutral or are for getting the their blogs mentioned in the social media and I bet many readers would like to be able to easily share you posts, if they like them (hopefully)

Pages

I read somewhere on the Internet that you need as many as 50 pages to be relevant on the Internet or for search engines to take you seriously.  I read somewhere else, again in the Internet, that 10 to 25 pages of content would get you started.  Blogger.com has a tool on the dashboard.

You make a new page much like you make a new post, with Title and content, followed by Publishing it. 

It looks like a post with comments section, which can be turned off.

You can choose how to get to the paged with the drop down pictured above.

Make Page for videos or articles longer that you want to put into a post.  Link to them from particular post that are pertinent and they have more of a chance to get noticed.

As far as I can see the format will be the same as the original blog.

10 page limit. But I read 20 here: http://www.bloggersentral.com/2011/03/limits-on-blogger-account.html

Think about your page name and it's effect SEO

Organization is a Four Letter Word

To paraphrase the song by the band Cake, really organization should be your friend, but organization and I are kind of like Frenemies. So I will attempt to use draft to keep my thoughts in one place, where I can water them, feed them, give them sunlight and nurture them until they are ready for the world, well mostly anyway.

Herky Jerky

Sorry if this is herky/jerky. It will probably begin with fits and starts. So I have all this information to blog about and soon as I made my first entry, I find a interesting setting on the Blogspot Dash board; Pages. Now I have seen this before, but like in a game of Concentration with a million items to match I sometimes have to stumble across it again.  My sister asked me "Why I did not take a class?" I told her I learn from doing, not so much from remembering, I always have figured stuff out better than remembering things.  The later probably created the need for the former.

Publishing Procrastination

While this maybe obvious to many, particularly if you were a English or Journalism major, after my initial post, I had some other pent up thoughts.  I figured that it may be better to publish one a day instead of jamming them all out and then having a drought.  Putting off publishing also lets me think about a post and edit it and make it more complete before anyone sees it.  Not that that is important in these early stages :-)