As part of the ongoing development of LBHB.ORG we have implemented a individualized brewing log (blog) system for each member registered at LBHB.ORG. With this system a registered member will be able to post log entries to the LBHB web site! With this you may:

• Detail your brewery for the rest of the world to see!
• Show off your products
• Brag about our group
• Have a "home page" for your friends and family to see your brewing activity
• Let others learn from the material posted

Items posted to their ships blog will be available for the world to read. The members individualized ships blog will allow:

• Members to have an individualized place to share their brewing experience with others with no cost!
• Members to share photos and files without maintaining their own web site
• Non members to see the experience of the LBHBers
• Members to have a online ongoing log of their activities that is accessible from anywhere in the world

Registration:

 To register for your own blog fill out the following form found at http://lbhb.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers 

 You will need to be approved before we give you a account. We have had issues with spammers in the past. Please send an email to George Eldridge ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and/or Enrique Piceno ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). In the email please include your name, user id, and email used for the account for quicker processing.
 

Making a Web Log Entry:

To use your blog follow the the steps below:

1. Login from the front page of the site (right side)
2. On the LBHB Members Only menu click the  "Blog Dashboard"
3. To write a new brewing log entry click the "Write New Entry" button, this will load a new screen to enter your blog entry in.  The first load of this screen may take a few seconds.
4. Click the "Blog title (click to edit)" header and enter the title for your blog entry.
5. In the window now loaded enter your blog entry.  Using the buttons at the top of the editor you may cut and past in from MS Word or text files.  Using the photo icon you may upload photos to the system as well.
6. On the right side select "publish" if you are ready to publish your entry to the world, if not select unpublish and you can save your entry and edit it later.
7. Select the date you wish to have your entry published and dated (future is OK)
8. Enter Tags (keywords) if you desire
9. Enter a title by clicking on "Blog Title(click to edit" and entering a title
10. Click the "Save" or "Save and Close" button.  (save and close will close the editor and return you to the list of your entries

Sharing Your Web Log Entries:

After you have saved a blog entry your entry will appear on the front page of LBHB.ORG until which time more blog entries are made.  Currently the most recent 5 blog entries of our community are show.

You may also reference people to your individualized web log page.  This page will show ONLY the blog entries made by you.  Your own web log page can be accessed by inserting your user name in the URL below at the "username" part.  i.e replace the "username" with your user name then forward this link to friends and family.

http://www.lbhb.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&blogger="username"&Itemid=56

Surfing to Other Members Brewing Blogs

If you are a member of the HYOA community you may browse others web logs by following the steps below:

1. Log in normally
2. Click "Member List" from the User Menu
3. Browse to the member for which you want to view their blog by clicking their log in name
4. Click the "Member Blog" tab

The LBHB Published Blog Entries (what the world sees):

The community web log entries can be found in two places.  On the front page upper left of LBHB.ORG  the latest few entries will be show at all times.  These will link to the full article.

Second, the complete blog history can be seen by clicking the button on the "Whats on Tap" menu named "LBHB Member Blogs".

Thank you, I hope this is a usefull addition to the LBHB community!