Procedures on Publishing and Maintenance Tasks

Procedures for reviewing and publishing the Historian’s posts

  1. Find out from the Historian the title of his new draft.
  2. Login to http://troop103fremont.wordpress.com/admin.
  3. Go to “Posts -> All Posts”. Find the new draft on the list.
  4. Move the mouse under the title to show the selection choices. Click “Edit”
    to view the draft in the editor. Click on the “HTML” tab of the editor.
  5. Review the draft. Make sure it complies with the Troop103 Blog Publishing and Moderation Guideline.
  6. Highlight the whole content and click “Proofread”.
    Edit the incorrect words and sentences as needed. Add any missing HTML tab if required.
  7. When finished, click the “Preview Changes” button on the right “Publish” pane
    to preview the draft. Fix any problem you can find.
  8. When complete the final correction, click the “Publish” button to commit and publish.
  9. Go to “Posts -> All Posts” to see a list of all the posts.
  10. Find the same post. Move the mouse under the title to show the selection choices
    and click “Quick Edit”.
  11. Assign the publish date to the last day of the month. Mark the check box of
    the category of the current year. Enter name of any tag appropriate to the post. Click
    the “Update” button to commit and publish.

Procedures for approving comments to any post on Troop103 Blog Site.

  1. Login to http://troop103fremont.wordpress.com/admin.
  2. Go to “Comments”. Look for new comments that were submitted recently and have not be approved.
  3. Read through each comment. Make sure it complies with the Troop103 Blog Publishing and Moderation Guideline.
  4. When completed, move the mouse under the comment to show the selection choices
    and click “Approve”.
  5. Repeat the same procedure until all the new comments have been approved.

Procedures for entering the Historian’s posts:

  1. Login to http://troop103fremont.wordpress.com/admin.
  2. Go to “Posts -> Add New”. Enter the title of the post.
    Follow the naming convention: Name of the month followed by year.
  3. Click the “HTML” tab on the WordPress editor.
  4. Open your Scout activity report. Copy and paste the report onto the content area
    of the WordPress editor.
  5. Your report, without the HTML tags, will show no white space and wrapping around
    continuously on the browser.
  6. Identify any heading in your report and add the < h? > … < /h? > tags.
  7. Identify the lines that need to be separated and add the < br > tags.
    You may not add the tag to every line, and let the lines without the tag to wrap around.
  8. Identify the paragraphs in your report and add the < p > tags.
  9. Identify the words that need to be highlighted and add the < b > … < /b > tags.
  10. Identify list of items and add the < ol > … < /ol > or < ul > … < /ul > tags whatever applied.
  11. Identify tables in your report and add all the table tags.
  12. Identify hyperlinks and add the < a > … < /a > tags.
  13. Identify images and their location in your report. Upload each of the images
    with the following 2 steps:
    • Go to “Media -> Add New”. Click the “Choose File” button and enter the file name and path. Then click the “Upload” button to upload the image.
    • After the file is uploaded, go to “Media -> Library” to look up the new image. Move the mouse below the title of the image to show selection choices and click “Edit”. It shows an “Edit Media” screen. Add 6 digit year-month number to the title to make it unique. Write down the “File URL” of the image for later use.
  14. Add images and < img src= > tags. Assign the url of the image to the “src” attribute of the < img > tag.
  15. Add other html tags if required.
  16. Highlight the whole content and click “Proofread”. Fix any spelling errors.
  17. When finished, click the “Preview Changes” button on the right “Publish” pane
    to preview the draft. Fix any problem you can find.
  18. Check also and make sure your post complies to the Toop103 Blog Publishing and Moderation Guideline.
  19. Click the “Save Drift” button on the right “Publish” pane to save the drift.
  20. Inform Junior Webmaster of your new draft that he needs to review.
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Troop103 Blog Site Maintenance

Troop 103 Blog Site is partially supported and maintained by our Troop-Webmaster and Historian.
Their tasks and responsibilities are defined in the following documents:
Troop-Webmaster Responsibilities
Historian Responsibilities
In addition to the responsibilities, they also make sure all posts on the blog site
comply to the Troop103 Blog Site Publishing and Moderation Guideline

They are required to attend training classes in order to perform their duties.
They take a training class on HTML and another on BLOG.
You can find the training materials in the following documents:
Introduction to HTML
Introduction to BLOG
In additions, you can also find the procedures on publishing tasks or maintenance tasks in
Procedures on Publishing and Maintenance Tasks

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Troop103 Blog Site Publishing and Moderation Guideline

All the articles published in Troop103 Site or submitted comments from our reader
must comply to the following guideline. Our moderator
must review all comments for their compliance before they can be published to the site.

  • They cannot contain materials inappropriate to the Scout spirit.
  • They cannot contain racial and offensive language.
  • They cannot contain full name of a minor (address minor with the first name and initial of the last name).
  • They cannot contain information that violates privacy.
  • They cannot contain commercial advertisement or spam.
  • They cannot contain copyright material.

As a moderator, you cannot edit or change any submitted comment. If there is a dispute
on the comment, you can either send a personal message to the author to point out
the dispute, or just remove the comment from publishing.

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December 2011, Mystery Trip Clues

Once every two or three years, we have a Mystery Trip. It was always a trip shrouded with mysteries, excitement, anticipation, and secrecy. To begin with, the trip leader would not announce the trip destination until the last week before the trip. He always gave out clues in the weeks ahead, but you had to guess the final destination. The trip always packed with activities, that we had seldom done. Some of the activities bordered on the side of adventure

Many of the trips turned out to be very memorable. For example, one trip we went to San Francisco and spent a whole day criss-crossing different neighborhoods and landmarks, enjoying different cultures, and tasting every delicacy. Next morning, we worshiped in a Greek Orthodox Church and observed different custom and culture. Another trip we went to Monterrey Bay for whale watching. We encountered a freak storm the night before with thunder, lightning, and hails. We took shelter in our tent feeling wet and trembling. Luckily, the sun was out the next day. We lay down on the deck of the cruise, sun bathed in the warm ocean breeze, rode on fifteen feet swells, and searched for waterspout from the distant whale. (See other Mystery Trips) The image was so memorable and fresh that seemed like yesterday.

Let’s fast forward to this coming Mystery Trip. Here is a prelude to the event and the clues to the Mystery Trip

Clues for Mystery Trip 2011

# DATE GIVEN CLUE
1 10/17/2011 Begins with a “B”, Ends with an “A”
2 10/24/2011 1 is by Land
2 is by Sea
3 is by Land
4 is by Sea
3 10/31/2011 This is not just for power but for crawling over!
4 11/7/2011 We walk into this location but climb out by ladder
5 11/14/2011 On our journey, we will be at the “END” but will not be finished yet!
6 11/14/2011 If you are not careful, we may be painting a rock with you.
7 11/21/2006 Vacation break. Sorry!  No clue!
8 11/28/2006 This overnight spot was prominently featured in a classic movie!
9 12/5/2006 One of the places we are hiking thru is also the name of a line of clothing
10 12/12/2006 “The area we will be in is named after a religious figure”
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January 2011

Here are the scout events for 2011

January
Webelos Shooting Sports Campout at Los Mochos
Troop 103 hosted 30 Webelos and their parents events included BB Guns, Archery, Tomahawk throwing, Leather Work
We ate awesome smoked turkey and all the fixings

February
Indoor Rally – Mission Peak District Champions

March
Angel Island Biking Campout
We took the ferry over to Angel Island with our bikes and camped/cycled on the Island

April
Mount Tamalpais ROB Hike
Back Pack Trip at Point Reyes – The troop enjoyed a 3 day backpack trip at Point Reyes over spring break

May
Capture the flag – Water Balloon fight at Los Mochos

June
Southwest HAT Trip
Backpacking in Zion, rappelling, hiking through slot canyons, sand boarding at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes

July
Summer Camp at Emerald Bay
Summer Camp at Royaneh

August
Oakland A’s Event with the Rotary Club
Troop 103 performed Flag Ceremony on the A’s field before the game

September
Camping at Sunset Beach
The scouts spent the day on the beach digging holes and enjoying the water. In the evening Troop 103 had a very cool capture the flag game against another boy scout troop using glow sticks at night on the beach
Dragon Boat Races at Lake Elizabeth

October
Fishing Campout at San Pablo Reservoir, camping at Camp Herms Boy Scout Camp

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December 2010

The troop participated in the Warm Springs Tree Lighting event on the 4th staffing a booth and providing exciting games for the public to take part in.

Los Moches found the troop entertaining Webelos on the 10th-12th.

 

We held an Eagle Court-of-Honor for Christian Tan on the 19th.

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November 2010

The troop took part in the annual Scouting-For-Food drive on the 13th and 20th. Working with Pack 199 we collected a total of 5824 items for the Alameda County Food Bank.

After the Scouting-For-Food door hanger distribution on the 13th the troop went to the Sillman Center in Newark for a swim party.

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