How to sign up group members for email notifications
There are three steps for setting up automatic email notifications for
your group members: 1) invite members to sign up for Blogware
accounts, 2) direct members to log into the club site, 3)
direct members to the subscription management page for the
blog. Let's cover the steps in more detail.
Step 1.
In order to receive email, a member must have a Blogware user
account. Members who do not yet have an account may sign up by
clicking Create Reader Account on the weblog or by navigating directly
to the signup page.
So
the first step is to send email inviting members to sign
up. If your group already has a mailing list, by all means use
that for sending the invitation. Alternatively, you may use the
Invite User feature in the blog admin site. Use the following
navigation path to reach it: Control Panel -> Settings &
Security -> Content Access Controls -> Invite User. On the
Invite User screen you can paste up to 50 email addresses into the To
field.
The text of the message should direct the user to the
signup page, http://www.blogware.com/users/index.cgi/cmd=signup, and
contain the information in steps 2 and 3 below.
Step 2.
Once a member has signed up and confirmed their email address,
they will need to log into the group site. This is accomplished by
navigating to the group site and filling out the login form, probably in
left-side navigation on the page.
Step 3. Once logged in, members can set their notification options by either following
the Subscribe link at the top of the page or by navigating directly to
the subscriptions area. The URL for the subscriptions area is
formed by appending /blog/cmd=manage_notices to the end of the blog
URL. Hence the subscriptions area for
http://URL.com would be
http://URL.com/blog/cmd=manage_notices
