If you ONLY want your volunteer bloggers to be able to blog, and not do anything else in your nation, you can create a permission set that allows them to create and edit pages, but not publish those pages, see people, or do anything else.

To start, navigate to Settings > Defaults > Permission sets.

1. Click on New permission set.

2. Give your permission set a name.

3. Click Create permission set.

4. Set all permissions you do NOT want these users to have to "No" by unchecking the boxes. Keep the ability to "Create and edit pages." They will save automatically. 

Now, when you add your bloggers to your control panel, you will assign them this permission set. 

You can create as many parent pages as you’d like, so just like you can have many calendars, you can have many blogs. If you haven't yet, create a blog page.

To create a new blog, navigate to Website > [Site Name] > New page.

2. Select blog as the page type.

3. Decide whether to include the blog in the top nav or supporter nav of your site. Typically, you'll want to include the blog in the top navigation.
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4. Click Create Page. 

All posts to this blog will live under Posts & subpages. All users with permission to utilize the blog will navigate to this tab to create their posts. To start a new blog post, users will go to Posts & subpages > New post. 

There are some important things to keep in mind before blog posts are published:

Within your post go to Settings > Social media to edit these settings. This is what will show up on your social media pages, as well as search engines like Google.

Under Settings > Page settings you can view or change the author.

When creating content (Blog page > Posts & subpages > Edit button > Content), make sure to add a sentence or two of interesting content "Before the flip" so people will click and read more!

Once you review the content (Blog page > Posts & subpages > Edit button > Content) you can either Publish it immediately or Schedule it. 

Tags are entered on Blog page > Settings > Page settings. 

You might find it useful to have one of your frequent blog topics live on its own easy to access page in the top navigation of your website. You can do this using a redirect page.

1. First, if you aren't tagging your blog posts with topics, you can add them on a blog post under Settings > Page settings > Tags.

2. Once you've added them, click Save page. Tags will automatically create a page that displays all the posts related to a specific tag, in the case below its "blog-events."

Now, you can set up this page to live in the top navigation bar of your website. To do so, go to Website > + New Page.

2. Input the slug.

3. Under "Type of page" select Redirect. 

4. Click Create Page.

5. You'll be taken to the Redirect settings page. Under URL to redirect to, input the URL from the page that was housing all the posts tagged for example, "blog-events." Typically this will be something like: https://savethegiraffes-jolynnbraswell.nationbuilder.com/tags/blog_events (my tag blog-events translates to blog_events)

6. Make the status of the page Published so it will display immediately on your site. 

7. Make sure the "Include in top nav" box is checked.

8. Click Save redirect. Once you do, you can view your website and you'll see the new button in the top navigation. 

You can create a signup page that allows people to subscribe to topics related to your blog posts. For example, "Events," or "Fundraising." It won't be an automatic notification, but you can easily send email blasts to people who subscribe to these tags. 

To do this, first you need to create a signup page by going to Website > + New page > give it a Name/Slug > under "Type of page" select Signup > Create Page.

On the Signup settings tab, under Basics:

1. Under "Allow signups to tag themselves with" select multiple tags (checkboxes).

2. Click Save settings.

Under Checkboxes you'll enter the topics people can subscribe to.

3. Enter a description for the box, i.e. Events.

4. Select the matching tag for this topic.

5. Click Add tag. All of your checkbox options will populate at the bottom.

Now, when you create a blog post, make sure to tag with one of the same tags people can subscribe to. 

To email all people who have subscribed to this tag, create a new email blast (Communication > select your Broadcaster > New email blast) and on the Recipients tab, select Tag and then select the tag corresponding to the post/subscription topic.

Now you and your team are set up to be pro bloggers! If you want further guidance, click here.