A blog post conveys information to the community in an article or story. It helps drive engagement through comments and allows readers to share their thoughts, opinions, or ask questions about the post. A good example of a blog post is to make an announcement, share an interesting story, provide thought leadership, or provide news.
Blogs are not used to only to share a single link or if you want to collaborate on a topic with other community members. Also, If you want to share updates on information that you will be regularly updating, a document might be a better content option.
If you are reposting information that is blogged elsewhere, (i.e. ArcGIS Blog), it is acceptable to post a link to the original blog (versus duplicating all the content), but add some context and a call to action if your goal is to generate discussion around the topic.
In the blog publishing workflow, blog articles can be in one of four states:
Esri, Esri Place Managers, Esri Ideas Managers, BlogPublisher and MVP roles
Have permissions to do the following:
BlogAuthor roles (a select set of customer community members that have been granted the permission to create blogs or grandfathered in form our old community)
Have permissions to do the following:
All other Community members (any non-Esri/ non-MVP/Non-BlogAuthor member) this covers most of our community members
Have permissions to do the following:
To create a blog you first need the appropriate permissions (see above):
Using an Article Teaser
Following the Article Teaser section, add your content in the Body of the post. When creating the body of the blog you can:
Additional Options
If you are a BlogAuthor, you write the blog. Next either click Save Draft to update the article later or Submit for Review to send the article for review to the Place Manager. Assume that he clicks Save Draft.
The draft is saved. The version number of this draft is 0.1. The status appears on the top-right corner. In this example, the draft status is Draft. The View Draft History lists all the actions taken on this blog until it is published in the community blog.
The BlogAuthor can choose to click any one of the following buttons:
Edit - to update the article.
Submit for Review - to assign the article to the Place Manager for review.
The BlogAuthor views the status of the article in the Blog Dashboard
The article is now in the Awaiting Review state and waiting on the Place Manager or Blog Publisher to take action.
If you are Esri Staff (without Place Manager or Blog Publisher roles) or MVP you can:
Save Draft if you want to continue working on your blog post at a later time, or want to allow others to edit and contribute.
Submit for Review: if you would like another member to review before publishing.
or you can bypass review and Post, it will immediately post in the Blog board
You have the additional option to schedule the publication of your blog. Enter the date and time you want the blog to publish.
From the published blog post, click the Options menu. In the Options menu, you can make additional choices.
Select Edit Article to edit your blog.
Select Delete Article to delete the blog.
As a Place Manger you can access and take action on the blogs in saved draft or Awaiting review in the Blog Dashboard
Return to the place's Blog board where you created your blog.
At the bottom of the right column in the Blog board, look for the Blog Dashboard:
@Anonymous User I've saved a draft of my blog post? I can't find it anywhere! Where do I access the draft to continue writing? Thanks.
Hi @LauraBowden, Return to the blog board (e.g. Training Blog) where you were creating the blog, and you will see a Blog Dashboard in the lower right column with a count next to View All Drafts. Click View All Drafts and you should see your draft post.
@Anonymous User What are the Labels used for?
Hi @JenniferCadkin,
Labels are used within a community to help categorize questions, blogs, ideas, documents that you write based on the themes or content in your post. Labels are unique to the places where content is posted in.
For example, in our Community Blog, you'll find labels for Community News, Community Updates, and Community Contest to narrow the subject matter.