MyElectiveBlog - Blogging for medics on elective

Create your own account

Jul 12

It takes only three steps and less than a minute to set up your own blog at MyElectiveBlog.com – just fill in our simple registration form.

STEP ONE
You’ll be asked to provide your university email address ending .ac.uk – this is so we can make sure only uni students are using our site!

STEP TWO
Then you’ll need to choose a username – this bit is important because your username will also form the link to your site. For example, if your username is joebloggs, your blog can be accessed by visiting myelectiveblog.com/joebloggs

STEP THREE
Finally, you’ll need to give your blog a title – something that explains what your blog is about like: 2011 Elective in Malaysia

That’s it!

We’ll send you your password by email which you can change when you log in for the first time. See the next post to set up MyElectiveBlog on your mobile.

5 Reasons to Blog

Jul 11

There are lots of great reasons to create a MyElectiveBlog for your elective – here are the first 5 we could think of:

Create long-lasting memories of your achievements and activities while you’re away
Upload photos directly from your phone, to instantly share experiences
Keep friends and family updated with your travel
Record your experiences for post-elective presentations and other assignments
Document, with proof, all of your activities for future job application forms

So what are you waiting for? Get started now by creating your own account

Set up MyElectiveBlog on your phone

Jul 10

MyElectiveBlog.com uses the World’s most popular blogging software – WordPress – which supports apps for almost all mobile phones! This means you can use the award-winning WordPress App on your iPhone / Android Phone / Windows Phone / Blackberry / Nokia with one simple download.

DOWNLOAD THE WORDPRESS APP
To get set up, visit your phone’s application store and download the free WordPress application – more details on the supported devices here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/apps/

Once you’ve downloaded and installed the application, you just need to link your phone to your blog:

STEP ONE
Launch the application from your phone

STEP TWO
Select the Add Blog option and then choose the Add self-hosted WordPress blog option

STEP FOUR
Type myelectiveblog.com/username in the URL box and then your username and password in the respective boxes. If your phone shows the Geotagging option, you can choose to switch that on too!

And that’s it! You’re ready to blog on the move – try out the quick photo option to upload photos directly to your blog.

Using your Map Page

Jul 17

Here are some quick instructions on how to use your Blog Map:

When you write a post, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your current location in the “LogMyTrip Location” box
As you you write a couple more posts and enter a couple more locations, you will notice the Elective Map page displays a dot-to-dot map of where you have blogged from
You can click on the markers on the map to view posts written at that location

If you would like to embed a google map with your intended route, then this is not the map to do it on – instructions on that coming soon!

Customize your blog

Jul 13

Once you’ve signed up for your blog, you’ll probably want to make it your own. Here are a few tips on the features available to make your elective blog look the way you want.

Changing the background
By now you will have seen the default background header image that your blog is set up with – but you can easily change this to any image or photo you want:

Login to your blog’s admin page
Choose the Appearance link on the menu on the left
Select Background

From this page you can upload an image or remove the default image and choose a colour for the background.

When choosing an image to use for your background, keep the following in mind:

The image should be large enough so that it spans the width of the header when the blog is viewed
Choose something that does not distract from the text in front of it and make it difficult to read
The image will be given a blur effect when you upload it to help the text stand out – so play around with a few images until you find something that works well

Using Widgets

Widgets are little add-ons for your site and are added to the bottom or right hand side of your blog. There are a number of different ones available and you can find them here:

Login to your blog’s admin page
Choose the Appearance link on the menu on the left
Select Widgets

Once you’re on the Widgets page, you can drag various widgets on to either the side bar or the bottom bar – this will make sense when you see it! You can add a calendar, a list of recent posts, a profile section and much more.

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