Administrator: Adding a Moderator

By: Monday, October 31, 2011
As an Administrator, you have the ability to add an additional Moderator to your network if Moderation Workflow is enabled.

1.  Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Administrator credentials

2.  In the top navigation bar, click Manage --> Workflow

3.  You will be taken to the Moderation Workflow dashboard. If it is your first time accessing the page, only the network Administrator account will be listed.

Basic Moderation Workflow Documentation

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FAQ: Moderation Workflow

By: Monday, October 31, 2011
Moderation Workflow is a Compendium feature that allows there to be multiple moderators within one network. The additional moderators will be responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving a designated type of content. Moderators can review either all posts within a certain manual category or all posts by a certain Author.

Example:  If a company wants to have all posts go through the legal department before appearing on the live blog, a moderator in the legal department can review and approve...
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Administrator: Understanding the Categories Widgets

By: Friday, September 16, 2011
As an Administrator, you have the ability to add four different types of category widgets to your network's blog. Category widgets appear in the blog's sidebar and display a list of categories from your blog network. Categories only appear within these widgets if they have content associated with them so that readers don't navigate to an empty page.

Please see below for descriptions of the four different category widgets:

All Automatic - Displays a list of all automatic categories

All Manual - Dis...
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Designer: Useful Links and Tools when Modifying the Template

By: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Below are a few links that Compendium's Support team finds useful when desiging templates and modifying customer's blog design.

Template Information
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Call to Action Best Practices

By: Friday, February 18, 2011
Calls to Action (CTAs) are a very important part of your blogging program. A great CTA can help you achieve your goals – whether those goals are to drive traffic to your website, encourage whitepaper downloads, or sign-up for a webinar. The video below focuses on some best practices that will help you when designing and creating CTAs.

Check out this video, so you can begin designing your new call-to-action today!

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Designer: Receiving Template Access

By: Wednesday, February 2, 2011
By default, Administrators and Authors do not have the ability to edit the template design, therefore, all template changes are made through a request to the Product Support team. If you are interested in gaining access to the template editor, you or someone in your company can become a Designer. The Designer role will allow you to further customize the look and feel of your network's template and will provide you with 24-7 access to manage all template modifications.

If you are ready to take...
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Designer: Designing Calls to Action (CTAs)

By: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
As a Designer, you will need to create a Call to Action (CTA) for your blog.  A CTA is an image that entices the reader or viewer to make a decision to take the next step based upon the image.

Here is a list of best practices to keep in mind when designing a CTA:
  • Create Urgency - The reader should understand how easy and immediate their action will be.
  • Use Numbers - Digits help make the action very specific (i.e. prices).
  • Indicate a Specific Action - Tell the reader exactly what you want them to...
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FAQ: Email to Post

By: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
What is Email-to-Post?

Email-to-Post is a feature that allows Authors to compose posts by sending an email to a Compendium Email-to-Post email address (@compend.me). An Author can compose an email from scratch or forward an already written email to the @compend.me address. This functionality enables easy content creation from anywhere you have email access!


Does my network have email to post?

Email-to-Post is an optional, add-on feature and is not automatically enabled on all networks.

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FAQ: Web-to-Post

By: Thursday, December 2, 2010
Compendium offers a Web-to-Post functionality that acts as a story collection and content generation feature.

What is Web-to-Post?
  • Web-to-Post (WTP) provides an easy way for your customers to share their stories and, in turn, create content for your network.
  • WTP allows readers and customers to access and fill out a form requesting certain information that you have designated. The form also gives the author the ability to include an image with their story. Once submitted, the story must be approved...
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FAQ: Understanding a Case

By: Tuesday, November 30, 2010
A case is a way for both Compendium's employees and clients to submit questions and issues that they may have regarding the Compendium platform.  Administrators, Authors, and Designers can submit a case the following ways:
  1. Calling our support line:  317-777-6255.
  2. Filling out the webform:  http://www.compendiumblogware.com/help/online-submission.html
  3. Searching our Knowledge Base:  http://help.compendiumblog.com
  4. Sending an email:  help@compendium.com
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