# Comment permettre à votre communauté d'utiliser Discourse comme plateforme de (micro)blogging

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Février 26, 2018, 3:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-your-community-to-use-discourse-as-a-micro-blogging-platform/81505 "2018-02-26T03:10:49Z")\
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The following is adapted from a how-to topic on our forum. It assumes you have tagging enabled and available to most trust levels, and also that you have the [Slack plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-slack-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66730) set up. It also links to topics for how to subscribe to tags via email and Slack that I have not adapted to post here, but you can edit that part out or add similar content yourself as well.

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So, you want to start a blog about what your or your team is doing to share with others. Great! We can help! Here’s a short how to on how you can use our forum as an blogging or publishing platform.

## Why Discourse?

While it may not seem obvious at first, but posting on our forum can be a great way to do this. Here’s why:

1. It allows an easy way for you to engage with your audience. Others can comment on your posts and continue the discussion with you and other readers.

2. It has built-in features for subscribing to posts via email or Slack.

Also, while your core audience may only be a slice of the community here, sharing your experiences in a place that is open and discoverable can contribute greatly to our shared understanding about the things we are doing here and how things are connected.

## How To

It’s pretty easy. The basic ideas is to “just use a tag” which you can create freely. But here is some additional guidance for what you can do to put it all together.

1. Choose a tag for your blog. (e.g. **#team-awesome-blog** )
2. Choose a regular cadence that you feel is sustainable (e.g. weekly, bi-weekly or monthly)
3. Create a new topic for each post\*
4. Title each topic with something about the content and the name of your blog.  
(e.g: **Try out our new fizzwhig feature! - Team Awesome Blog No. 2** )
5. Tag your topic with your tag ( **#team-awesome-blog** )
6. Include a bit of boiler-plate\*\* at the bottom of your post to:
  - Link to the previous post.
  - Link to the list of all posts.
  - Remind people how to subscribe.

7. Finally, when you publish a new post, share the link in other channels where your core audience hangs out (Slack, email, twitter, etc).

\*Having a separate topic for each post gives people a place to reply, comment and discuss the ideas in your post with you and others.

\*\*Example boilerplate below:

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_Previous issue: [First beta release! - Team Awesome Blog No. 6](https://forum.example.com/t/first-beta-release-team-awesome-blog-no-6/26991)_  
_All issues: **#team-awesome-blog**. Subscribe via email or Slack._

Here’s the corresponding markdown:

```plaintext
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*Previous issue: https://forum.example.com/t/first-beta-release-team-awesome-blog-no-6/26991*
*All issues: #team-awesome-blog. Subscribe via [email](link-to-how-to-subscribe-to-a-tag-via-email) or [Slack](link-to-how-to-subscribe-to-a-tag-via-slack).*

```

## That’s it!

If you want to give this a try and have any questions, feedback or other ideas, please reply below.

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See also:

- [Microblogging (the inverted Ask Me Anything?)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microblogging-the-inverted-ask-me-anything/81290)
- [A curated weekly newsletter for your community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-curated-weekly-newsletter-for-your-community/76668)

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