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Email Notification

As mentioned elsewhere in this document, bloggers have an option of receiving email notification any time a new blog is posted (by another author in your group, for instance), or when anyone posts a comment to a blog you have written.  To receive such notifications by email, follow this procedure.

(Note:  If you are a user with Impersonation privileges - see Group Blogging Help - be sure you are not currently impersonating an author who does not want to receive email notifications!)

First, make sure that you are on the blog page that you want to be notified about.

(In most cases, this will be your own blog, but there's nothing to stop you from requesting notification about any or all of the blogs on our site.)


In the right-hand sidebar, locate the
"Email Alerts" link in the This Blog group:


Note: If you are not currently logged in,
you will not see the "Email Alerts" link.
Log in and return to the blog page.

 

The Blog Email Subscriptions page for the current blog will load.  Select the radio button for the level of notification you wish to receive:

 

Click the Update Blog Settings button:

 
Counter-intuitively, you are only half done.

You have subscribed to blog email notifications, but you may not have identified yourself as a willing recipient of emails.  By default, our system assumes that all users don't want to receive emails.  This preference is stored in your user profile.

At the top, right of the page, click your Username:

(Note:  As mentioned, if you are a user with Impersonation privileges, be sure that you are not logged in as an author who doesn't want to receive email notificaitons.)


Your user profile is loaded into the Profile Editor.  Click the Personal tab:


On the Personal Tab, locate the Email Options section toward the middle of the page.  Click Edit as shown:


Mark all three checkboxes:

Then click
Save Changes:


You are now fully configured to receive email notifications of any posts or comments to your blog.



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