How to "Follow" other blogs

For our Social Media class, we need to stay up to date with the student blogs in our class. Doing that can be difficult, especially when we have so many other social media platforms to keep track of too! One simple trick to help with this is to Bookmark the class blog Vic Uni Library Studies 2016 Social Media 1 in your browser, or to place a hyperlink to it from your own blog to get to it quickly. From there, you can access the student blogs listed on the page. Today, I want to highlight another method: following blogs via your dashboard.

When you sign into Blogger and view your dashboard you'll see a list of your own blogs, and below that your "reading list". Your reading list allows you to quickly preview all the latest posts from every blog you've "followed", all in one place! You can also choose to only view posts from a particular blog. This will save you the trouble of checking each page individually to see whether new posts have been made. So how do we go about adding blogs to our reading list? Read on to find out!

The first thing you need is the URL of the blog that you want to follow. To find that, access the homepage of the blog and copy the URL in the address bar. 
(Alternatively, you can  access VU Collaborate and copy the URLs posted on the Social Media 2016 subject space discussion board.)

Next, access your Blogger dashboard. You can do this by clicking on the orange Blogger icon on the top left corner of a blog and signing in to your account (if you haven't already). Click on the "Add" button under the Reading list heading. A dialogue box will pop up on the page.

Paste the URL you copied into the text field, choose whether to follow publicly or anonymously, then click on the orange "Follow" button. 
Top tip!  To add more than one blog at a time, click on "+ Add" and paste another blog's URL into the new text field. Do this as many times as you need to.

Congratulations, you have successfully followed a blog! To confirm that you have followed the right blog, check the list of blogs in your reading list and click on the blog title to preview its posts. Now you can quickly and conveniently check all the blogs that you're following for new posts!


I hope you learnt something new! You can find out more about how to follow blogs and manage your followed blogs via Blogger Help: Manage blogs you follow