How to do stuff on Political Suicide

Thanks for registering with Political Suicide! I hope you enjoy using the site and hopefully adding content to it. There are a few things you can do here at Poli-Sui:

• To add a blog - From your folder, on the bar under the main buttons, find "add item" and select "coreblog2." Follow the questions and you'll be up in no time posting your blog. Also, make sure to add a Category (Tags) first otherwise, if you started typing up your entry, you'll have to copy/paste into another entry. At least one Category is needed for each entry. Use tags that are descriptive of your content so it will be easily indexed (some suggestions are National, Local, Austin, Livability, etc). These tags are also indexed by Technorati as well so there are no extra things you need to do for them. Also, once you are finished writing up your entry, make sure to change the state to "make visible" which will publish your entry. Once published (and this goes for most things on the site), you will need to "retract" it using the state drop-down. Otherwise, you won't see your editing options. Your blog will automatically show up under the main site link "Blogs" but your entries, once published, will get posted on the home page.
• To submit news items - Go to the "add item" button and select "news item." News items are moderated so they will have to get approval from one of the editors before they appear on the front page. Once approved, it will show up on both the home page and under the "Interesting Stuff" link.
• To create a chat room - Go to "add item" and select "chat." Follow the questions and it will setup the chat room. Your room will appear in the chat room listing on the home page of Poli-Sui. Once published, it will show up in the Chats main site link.
• Add an event - If you want to put on the calendar any event (you're sponsoring a group meeting, you'll be online to discuss your latest blog post, etc), select "add item" and "event." Fill out the form and your event will appear on the calendar and in the "Events" portlet on the home page.
• Add a poll - If you want to run a poll, just select "poll" from the "add item" menu. Once you publish it, it will show up under the Poll main site link.

The other options under "add item" (file, folder, image, link, page) are for adding content to your folder. Feel free to add what you like to your folder (although there is a total file limit size of 25MB).

One last thing, when you add content, make sure that you change the "state" of your content to "make visible." That's how I gather and organize all of the content on the site. If it's not published, you might still be able to see it but it won't get indexed. And if it doesn't get indexed it won't make it to its final destination.

I'll be adding new features when I can so if there's anything you'd like to see, please let me know at paleo@politicalsuicide.org.

Good night and good luck!

Scott Brown
Chief Political Junky
PoliticalSuicide.org