Posted in Tech Support

Have you ever found a blog that you really liked, but then lost it? Well our tech support person Jodi, posted an entry over at HomeschoolBlogger (which is set up like us now) that I thought might be helpful to you all here too.

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When you are logged in, you can do a more comprehensive search of the users on our site based on their username, age, gender, interests, and other variables.

I took some screenshots to illustrate this.  I apologize that they are a bit small, I'll make bigger ones the next time I do this.  Hopefully you can see enough detail to find everything on your own.

When you first login you are on the user manager page.  In the group of links at the top is one called "Search".  See the shot below where the blue arrow is pointing.


Click on that link and it will take you to the search page.  It looks like this:



As you can see, this gives you several fields to search on: Username,  Name,  Email Address,  Gender, Location, Age Range, Website, IM Screenname or Interest.  You can fill in partial information, like your town, a first or last name, or part of a username.  If you want to narrow things down more, you can fill in more than one field (i.e., bloggers named Linda in Atlanta who enjoy skiing).  This can come in pretty handy for finding other bloggers with similarities to you or if you can't quite remember the full name of that blog you were interested in reading again but forgot to bookmark. 

From the results screen (reached after clicking on the 'Continue' button) you will get all of the matching blogs with links for each one to their profile page, to add them to your friends list and to send them a private message.  Pretty cool, huh?

Make sure you also update all of your own Profile information (that link is also at the top of the user manager pages) so other users can find you when they search.  The more complete everyone's profiles are, the better the search will work  for all. ( from Nancy - Especially the interest section, just think of all the things you could list - chickens, quilting, making soap, homeschooling, pastured poultry, organic gardening, living off-grid, etc... Likewise, don't be too specific in the location box if you don't want people to be able to track you down. )

Go ahead and try it out.  You never know what interesting blogs and bloggers you might find!

Jodi