Urban Go-Team 2014

Adventures in Elections & Voting

Blogging Warm Up: “Get to Know Your Go-Team!”

May 29, 2014 by Allison

Hi Go-Team! As a warm-up for the week, we’d love for you and the rest of the group to introduce yourself on the blog. This will be part of a series of Get to Know Your Go-Team posts from students and staff.
  • “Get to Know Your Go-Team” Activity
  1. What are some of your expectations for the week?
  2. What is the biggest question you have about voting, elections, and campaigns?
  3. Why did you decide to join Go-Team (this is where your admissions essay would come in handy)
  4. How’d you hear about Civitas?
  5. Have you ever done Go-Team before? If so, what was your experience?
  6. A fun fact about yourself/anything else you’d want to include
Feel free to add, change, or do whatever you want with these questions.
  • Posting Your Responses
Everybody member of  Go-Team has to posting privileges. The process is really simple. Feel free to post on your own, outside of set Civitas activities. Here are a few basic steps:
  1. Go to the blog: http://www.civitas-stl.com/Urbangoteam2014/
  2. Log In. The link to log in is under the banner vote, under the title Meta, at the very top of the second column to your right.
  3. Enter your login credentials. Once you log in, Word Press will take you your Dashboard view.
  4. To add a new post: go to the “+ New” drop down menu on the lefthand corner of the page. Select post. This will give you fields to enter your title, and the text of your post
  5. Title the post Get to Know Your Go Team: [Your First Name Here]
  6.  Answer the questions. You can either copy and past these your responses from Word or another word processor, or just answer them in the post box.
  7. Tag your entry. Next to the body of your post, look to the right-hand side of the page at the Categories menu. Tag this exercise under Get to Know Your Go Team
  8. To post your entry to the blog, click the Publish button on the right-hand side of the page. Congratulations–You are now a published Web author!!
That’s all for now! I’ll be posting a sample Get to Know Your Go Team post soon (only fair, right?) As always, let us know if you have any questions. See you Monday!

 

 

Author: Allison

Allison has been involved with Civitas--first as a high school student, now as staff--for the past 10 years. She participated in the 2007 Go-Team, which focused on urban economic redevelopment in the St. Louis region. The experience changed the way she viewed St. Louis, inspiring her to major in Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She graduated in 2013.

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