Introduction

Over the years, blogs have risen in popularity. By offering a robust communication method to exchange stories, news, opinion, and more. Blogs enable users to engage and receive feedback from an audience. There are a number of ways to utilize CivicLive’s blogs for an educational setting. They include:

City-to-Community Communication: Create blog pages to discuss local activities and issues.

Internal Discussions: Staff can set up private staff-only blogs.

Event Blogs: Set up blogs to promote local events and festivals.

This guide will take you through the process of creating a blog, managing the database, and exploring some of the handier options available.

Blogs and Security: Something to Consider

CivicLive’s Blogs module offer a safe and easy way for users to communicate with each other and the community. As such, understanding a blog’s security protocols is a necessary step in getting the most out of the module. The most prevalent challenge for this kind of social medium is ensuring content is appropriate, filtered, and tracked.

By offering the tools authors and administrators need to help guarantee user safety, CivicLive’s blogging module facilitates constructive communication. Some of the most important security tools include user-based authentication, comment approvals, and the ability to filter comments by IP address.