Blogger Learnings - Week One

For the "LIFE" team and other passionate Learners back home:
Behaviors: Recommend that you provide instructions on posting comments and how/when you plan to write, to accompany your invitations to read. Most of our invitees are not familiar with blogging and don't always understand how they can interact with the blog. We keep getting lots of great comments coming to us in our email account instead of directly into the blog.
Another learning for me as the writer, is that I don't really have time to learn and experiment on the road. Often don't get more than 5 or 10 mins windows of time to quickly load something.
Process: Recommend that you figure out how the time-zones will impact your posting. Just learned after a week that I can specify the time-zone for the daily time-stamp. The 12 hour delay has actually been a benefit for my daily posting ritual, as I can write the blog for the previous day the next morning and have the automatic time stamp be correct.
Tools: Recommend that you get more practice than I had before I started on this adventure. Need to figure out some tricks and workarounds to such things as a) how to upload multiple pics at the same time b) how to change the language interface if you are presented with something other than English. c) bring a cheat sheet with additional html commands to help with the formatting.