If you’re a KVC member looking to showcase your business on the KVC website, here’s a great way to do it. Just use Windows Live Writer to post your announcement to the KVC website. Here are the steps I took to upload our business (ios Financial) on the KVC website:
- You must download a program called “Windows Live Writer”; this is the interface that the KVC uses to author new posts. You’re effectively creating your own discussion forum that will be auto-posted to the KVC website. I personally used this link to download the application, but there may be one better out there.
- Once there, click the “Download” button.
- Reset your computer after it downloads (when it prompts you to do so) to fully install the program.
- When installed, a few boxes will pop up basically asking how you want to access the application. Make sure to uncheck the appropriate boxes to prevent Windows Live from popping up every time you turn on your computer (unless, of course, you’re into that sort of thing).
- Go into the Windows Live Writer program.
- Once you’re in Live Writer, go to the Blogs drop down menu and select “Add Blog Account”.
- You’ll see a screen that gives you a few options for which blog you want to use: select “other” at the bottom of the list.
- If you reach a screen that says “Select blog type” and you don’t see “other” as one of the options, then you erroneously did not select “other” on the previous screen (I made this mistake initially). You just have to click the “back” button to change the blog selection to “other”.
- After you select “other” for the blog, the next screen will ask you to key in a URL. You should enter in the KVC URL here. (www.kelloggventurecommunity.com). You’ll also need to enter in your KVC login and password here so that the new post you just created will automatically sync up with the KVC site. Keep this in mind if you ever change the KVC password.
- If you’ve done this properly, you should be advanced to a blank blog page, and at this point you can get started.
- After you’ve typed everything up and are ready to post, click the “Save Draft” button on the top. This will send your posting to the KVC administrator for review/posting. To clarify, do not try to hit “Publish”…only the KVC administrator can “publish” your postings. Just click Save Draft to send your post to the administrator’s queue.
- If you’ve done this correctly, you should see confirmation in the box to the far right of the blog screen that your post has been “Recently Posted”.
- Congratulations, you’re done.
This process worked for me but if anyone has an easier more efficient way, please post your thoughts to this posting.
Hope this helps!
-Brandon
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Steve Schultz
June 1st, 2010 on 12:42 pmI sure wish KVC were offering a platform-independent way to do this. I’m a Mac user, and don’t want to have to use Windows to promote my business.
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Mac users can use the web based interface. Use your KVC Website username and password and try out the web based admin tool:
http://www.kelloggventurecommunity.com/wp-admin/
Hope this helps!
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