Help:Blog

What is a blog?

Blog is short for "web log". Basically, a Blog is a online space or webpage(s) where you can "log" all kinds of things about yourself, your life, and things that interest you.

Some blogs on the world wide web have all kinds of advanced capabilities, styles, and types of content. The blogs here on the CPAPtalk.com CPAP Wiki are kept simple so that they are easy to use. Keep reading to learn more.

Your Very Own User Page

You have a personal user page which may be used to place publicly viewable information about yourself so that other CPAPtalk.com CPAP Wiki users may come to know you, and hopefully appreciate your contributions.

• View Help About Your User Page

Create A Blog! Share with Family and Friends

Your own personal user page can also be used as a Blog, which you may update from time to time, to keep your family, friends, and fellow CPAPtalk members informed about your happenings. Use it to give updates about your therapy, express your opinions, rant or rave, or add news about your life or interesting things you would like to share with others.

Go to your user page and try it out! Then you can just email one link to everyone or they can come to your Blog on here anytime to see what's up in your world.

Ways You Can Use Your Blog

Here are a few ideas for things to do with your blog.

• Use it to collaborate on the wiki
• Add info about ways you contribute to the wiki
• Post some information about yourself
• Post updates about your sleep therapy
• Use it as a sleep diary
• Make a list of favorite CPAPtalk Forum posts
• Write a personal product review
• Tell people about your day
• Write a book, movie, or music review
• Make a list (favorite websites, movies, bands, songs, people, etc.)
• Explain something that you know a lot about
• Conduct an experiment and post your results
• Post something humorous
• Share a recipe
• Link people to your blog
• Email friends and family the link to your blog
  • ...and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.

Blogging Tips

• Hint: To get to YOUR user page simply look for your username on the top left hand side of the CPAPtalk CPAP Wiki. It will be just above the word "Navigation" and just below the CPAPtalk logo.

Chances are that your page is blank so just go ahead and dive right in and edit your page. Add to it or change it anytime.

• Hint: CPAPtalk.com Members who frequent the CPAPtalk.com Forum can add the link to their blog into their Member profile or their signature file.

CPAPtalk CPAP Wiki Blog Example

One of the Sysops has created an example blog to show just some of the possibilities.

• Check Out The Sample Blog

Blog Guidelines

Keep in mind, the general terms of the CPAPtalk.com User Agreement and CPAPtalk.com CPAP Wiki Disclaimers, and any related terms and conditions, apply to your blog page. NPOV guidelines do not apply to your blog.

• Important! Please be aware that what you place on your blog here is viewable by the general public and anyone with Internet access. Also, be aware that the general nature of a wiki is to keep a history of all page edits or page versions in an archive. These archived page histories are also viewable by the general public.

See Also

Wikipedia Blog Entry