Blogging
There is absolutely no doubt that blogging is a powerful
enterprise tool whether used within an organisation’s internal web
presence or as a way to engage more effectively with external
audiences.
- Drives ‘date driven/chronologically listed’ topical content
that can be created easily by non-technical people.
- Promotes interaction and the exchange of knowledge and ideas
through commenting.
- Provides a catalyst for social
networking. If the blog content is deemed useful and authentic
by readers then they will seek to associate themselves with the
author and play a role in publicising that content further either
through their own blogs, RSS feeds or specific links from their
websites.
Immediacy CMS now incorporates a blogging tool to help create
chronologically listed content via the core system’s editing and
admin functions, as well as a commenting capability that is routed
via the system’s standard approval and workflow processes. The tool
enables...
- Easy to build blog functionality wherever needed in Intranet or
public facing sites
- Manage via established membership and permissions settings
- Roll-up of blog entries at user and area level
- Easy blog entry creation via Immediacy's intuitive 'Word-like'
interface
- Blog comments are handled through Immediacy's Deployment Server
and fed into workflow and approval processes that can be configured
as desired depending on corporate policies
- Optional 'captcha' style anti-spam protection
The 'blogging' capabilities in Immediacy
CMS
The structure of the blog is dependent on your
needs, however, as an example, a fairly typical structure is
detailed in the following text. A blog parent page is created which
should contain an overview of the blogs contained there under and
include a roll up of the most recent blog entries created under all
subpages of this parent page.
A home page is created under the blog parent
page for each blog creator. This home page details the most recent
blog entries made by that contributor in date order (most recent at
the top of the list). In addition, a blog archive can be included
that will provide a link to all blog entries for a particular
month. The links are automatically generated for each month in
which the blog owner creates a blog entry.
Blog
Presentation to the Site Visitor
At the top of the blog entry is the date and
time of submission. Alongside this information is the RSS link.
Following the date and time is the body of the blog entry. After
the content, the author of the entry is detailed. This is the full
name configured for the user in the Manager application and not the
username entered to login to the Editor. A comments link is also
present alongside the author details and the left-hand pane
contains the blog description and archive list.
Clicking this comments link presents and
accepted comments the fields that allow the site visitor to add
further their comments on the associated blog.
The blog article is detailed and followed by
the accepted comments. In addition, a link that subscribes the user
to the comments using RSS is presented. Finally, the comment fields
are available to the current user to allow a further comment to be
added. The Name and Comments
fields must be completed before the Submit button
is active. Once the Submit button is clicked, a
message stating that the comment has been submitted is displayed to
the submitting visitor. This comment is not yet available to other
site visitors; it must be approved within CMS before this is the
case.
The commenting capabilities in the Immediacy
'blogging' tool