When you edit your blogⁱ posts, you will see checkboxes at the bottom for submitting your post to social bookmarking and social networking sites. These checkboxes are available when you create or edit your blog posts, so you don't have to check them when you first create your blog post. You can read it over and make sure it's what you want before submitting. When you are ready, check those two boxes, and follow the instructions. If you have never tried this step before, you will be presented with a list of sites where you can register, then save your usernames and passwords. If you save your usernames and passwords, this step only has to be completed once. From then on, you will go directly to the page where your post is submitted. It is a single step. Your teaser, title, and other fields will be presented for final inspection. Just click the submit button, and your done!

In addition, when you view your blog post, you will see a number of links at the bottom. Included in those links are "Social Bookmark This," "Social Network This," and "Invite to This." Click on each of those links to get your blog out on various bookmarking and networking sites. "Social Bookmark This" will present you with a number of Automated and Semi-Automated links that will allow you to bookmark your blog in a public area that many other people will see. "Social Network This" will allow you to send messages about your blog to social networking sites. There are registration links for each site so you can sign up for each one.

To use the automated options, click the "Add/Edit Social Profiles" link to enter your usernames and passwords for the social networking and bookmarking sites. There are links to register for each of the sites on that page as well. Once your profiles are saved, you will have new automated links to click. Clicking a link for an automated option will present you with a simple form. All of the information will be filled out, and you may make some changes to it if you wish. Just click submit to send your blog. We will continuously add new automated options, to make submitting even easier!

To use the semi-automated options, you must be logged in to the site for which you would like to send your blog. Clicking on one of the links will take you to another page with a single link. Click on the single link to open the bookmarking or networking site in a new window. If you are signed in on the bookmarking or networking site, you will be presented with a form. Finish the form and submit to submit your blog. If you are not signed in, the window will require you to sign in, and then you may have to close the window and click the link again.

The "Invite to This" makes use of the Contact Tool to send your blog to your current contacts. You may use the Contact Tool to import your contacts first, then use the "Invite to This" link on your blog to send your blog to all of your contacts, or a single category of your contacts at once.