How To Participate at ORblogs

ORblogs only works because weblog authors from around the state have made the choice to participate at this site. Without them, this site wouldn't exist. If you'd like to join in, take a look through the ways you can participate below. If your questions aren't answered here, feel free to ask a question via email.

If you like to read weblogs, ORblogs is the place to see what your neighbors are talking about. Sure, the web lets us read what people care about in New York, California, or Nebraska—but you won't find bits of local news, pointers to local events, or get a feel for the diversity of opinion in your own backyard without reading locally.

If you write a weblog here in Oregon, ORblogs is a chance to put your words in front of a group of highly-connected Oregonians. By joining in the larger Oregon conversation, you might make some local connections across town—or across the state—that you could otherwise miss.

If you're in Oregon, have a weblog, and you'd like to list your weblog with ORblogs.com, there are three quick steps you can take:

1. First, add your weblog to the directory.
2. Then, add some specific meta tags to your weblog's HTML to let others know where you live, and/or what your site is about.
3. Finally, notify this site whenever you add a new post. (If you want.)

That's all there is to it. Once your weblog is in the directory, ORblogs will try to keep up with your site as you add new posts.

Great, thanks! If you'd like something simple, copy the code for one of these buttons and paste it into your weblog:

<!-- Begin ORblogs Button --> <a href="http://www.orblogs.com/"><img src="http://images.orblogs.com/oregon.png" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="ORblogs - Oregon Weblogs Community"/></a> <!-- End ORblogs Button -->

<!-- Begin ORblogs Button --> <a href="http://www.orblogs.com/"><img src="http://images.orblogs.com/orblogs.png" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="ORblogs - Oregon Weblogs Community"/></a> <!-- End ORblogs Button -->

Or for that retro, text-only look:

ORblogs

<!-- Begin ORblogs Link --> <a href="http://www.orblogs.com/" title="Oregon Weblogs Community">ORblogs</a> <!-- End ORblogs Link -->

Blogger is a good place to start. It's a free service, and even gives you free web space for your weblog. Once you sign up there and get your blog rolling, be sure to stop back here and add your blog to the ORblogs directory.