How to automatically notify your Glog readers when you post

PART 1: Set your blog to email you when you publish a new post:

On Blogger.com:
1. Log in to your google account to view the blogger dashboard.

2. Locate the dashboard entry for your glog, and look at the lower-right area. Click settings

3.Click the word Email near the top of the page in the colored bar.

4. You'll see the words BlogSend Address. To the right of that, enter your email address in the box.

5. Click the Save Settings button.

6. Post to your glog, and print off the email you get from blogger.

PART 2: Create a list of glog readers, AKA an Outlook Distribution List

In Outlook Express (6)
1. Click Contacts in the bottom left corner and select New (make sure to click the downward arrow) then Distribution List.

2. Give it a name.

3. Click Select Members to add from the contacts list, or Add New to add an email address that's not in your contacts list.

4. Click Save and Close when finished.

PART 3: Set up a "Rule" to make outlook send the blogger message to your readers:

In Outlook Express (6)
1. Click on the Tools menu and select Message Rules, and then select Mail.

2. Click on the Mail Rules tab.

3. Click the New button.

4. In the area labeled 1. Select the Conditions for
your rule: Select the box next to Where the body contains specific words (we will use the last line of the email you printed, where blogger tells you the user name of the person who posted and the name of the glog).

5. Then in the area labeled 2. Select the Actions for your rule: Select the box next to Forward it to people.

6. In the area labeled 3. Rule Description… click on the blue link that says contains specific words then type the line from the bottom of the email blogger sent you, like "Posted By cynthia to Delicious Details" in the box and click on the Add button
and then click OK. BE SURE TO USE THE WORDS FROM YOUR BLOGGER EMAIL, NOT MINE.

7. Then in the same area click on the blue link that says people, then type in the distribution list you created in PART 2 and then click OK.

8. Click OK.

9. Click OK.