Having a Private & Public(#PGCEmix) Blog

So I've started blogging since the day of introduction to PGCE in order to document my trials and tribulations during my "becoming a teacher".

In yesterday's computer class, it turned out that we will need to blog about certain articles and then post them to Twitter for the whole world (fellow students #PCCEmix) to see and comment on.

MY CONUNDRUM: I only want to share certain blogs.

In using blogger.com, it is not possible to allow only certain blogs to be viewed as there is a global privacy setting for your blog profile.

Playing around, I stumbled on the fact that it is possible to create multiple blogging areas(profiles), with which you can control the privacy settings individually.

If you are therefore in the same boat as me and prefer to have both a private and a public blog, it is possible with blogger.com.

Secondly, since blogger.com is part of the google domains, it is completely free on the USB network. Just get your device signed up on the network if its not already done.

I therefore recommend that if you don't know where to start (or have already started),
1. Use blogger,

2.1. Create a main profile,
2.2. Create a second profile,
2.3 Ensure that all your settings are as you would want them, ie. public is set to public and that only I'm invited to the private blog. (Not required, but would be interesting, yes?)

When you log in to blogger.com to post something, just make sure that you enter it into the correct profile.

VIOLA!