 This screencast will show you how to add the quick post bookmarklet as well as use the quick post Quick post is a quick and easy way to add a new blog entry to the jug 30 community blog First thing that you want to do is log in to the our perspectives blog And you do so using your Penn State user ID and password And that will get you into the dashboard for our perspectives Remember if you can't find the our perspective blogs or if you get to your dashboard And it's another blog that you have ownership of all you do is go to this Bar in the upper left corner click on it and select the correct blog in this case. We've already selected our perspectives Okay, so this is quite easy to add a quick post bookmarklet All you need to do is look in the lower right corner for quick post to our perspectives And what you will do next is click on this link Drag it up to your bookmark browser bar, and this is using Firefox by the way So you're going to drag it up to your Your bar and now you've got it So basically when you're on a page that you want to post about you can highlight the text that you want to highlight Click the bookmarklet up in your browser. So you're going to click on this and then You'll be taken to a new blog entry where you can add commentary and make any edits that you wish and then just hit save to publish So what we're going to do now is I'd like to show you quickly how that is done. So I'm going to go to a new web page Ah, how about I go to pennstate.psu.edu and I'm going to go to news and announcements because I'm I'm interested in This particular Article the trustees here strategic plan update So I'm thinking that this first paragraph sounds very interesting to me So I'm going to highlight it and then I'm going to click on my quick post And now what you'll see is that I'll be taken to the Geog 30 the our perspectives blog and there we are It's already been filled out the title's been filled out Penn State live trustees here strategic plan update It's got a direct link right back to the story and here's the first paragraph that I wanted to comment on I Think this is a great story Again, you can fill in your tags as you need Geog 30 summer 2010 and section one or whatever your section might be and to say this is for Module three and this has a lot to do with ethics. I believe okay, so that's all you need to do hit save and You've got a post that was created by the quick post we can view entry So you see how it looks and I'm going to move this browser window out of the way And now you see that I have published a blog post with the quick post I've got the link back to the original article I've got a little snippet of the article itself, and then I've got my own commentary right here and That is how you create a quick post if you have any questions Please go to blogs.psu.edu and you can click on the support button and there you can answer Have a lot of your questions answered about this