Step 1: Set-up your blog

• go to UBC Blogs and sign-up for an account (you’ll need your Campus Wide Log-in to create an account)
• select your template, set up your blog and all that stuff
• Note: When you go to login in to your blog a second time, you’ll be re-directed to the home page at blogs.ubc.ca. You’ll find your blog in one of two ways:
  - mouse over your name in the welcome to message on the top right of the page
  - choose your blog from the drop down menu on the task bar on the top left under “blogs”

Step 2: Set-up your Blog Squad Badge on your Blog

• Go to your blog’s dashboard
• Click on “Widgets” (under the Appearance settings on the left menu of the Dashboard)
• Drag the “text” widget into the sidebar on the right.
• In the text widget leave the title blank.
• In the big open box of the text widget paste the following code:

Blog Squad Bloggers

<a href="http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/" target="_blank" >
<img src="http://http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/files/2009/07/Blog-Squad-Badge-copy.jpg"
alt="Blog-Squad-Badge-copy" width="250" height="250" /></a>

Blog Squad Alumni Bloggers

<a href="http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/" target="_blank" >
<img src="http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/files/2012/08/Alumni-Badge-copy.jpg"
alt="Alumni-Badge-copy" width="250" height="250" /></a>

Step 3: Connect with others

• send us your blog url and feed (your feed should be something like http://blogs.ubc.ca/sam/feed) so that we can add you to the Blogsquad: http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/

Happy Blogging!