Benedicite!

Welcome to the friar's cell. Here is where we will continue the collaboration begun at The Northeast Theatre in March of 2008, under the auspices of their contemporary commedia dell'arte troupe, Zuppa del Giorno. Please sign up for a Google account (if you haven't one already) in order to accept the invitation you have been sent, and post your ideas to this weblog. In case you haven't been a member of a 'blog before, look here for how we used one to collaborate on Prohibitive Standards prior to beginning rehearsal.
The basics:

1. Sign in as a contributor to the 'blog using your Google account name and password.
2. Create a "post" (an entry) on some aspect of the show you wish to share information or ideas on. You can include pictures and videos in a given post, or simply text, depending upon your level of ease with the Blogger website.
3. When you have finished your post, be sure to label it with applicable categories. Every time you add a new category, it joins a list of categories by which we can search for entries. So, for example, this post will be labeled "logistics." In the future, if you need to find an entry regarding some practical aspect of the show, you can click on the "logistics" category in the sidebar and see all relevant entries. (Blogger also allows you to search the whole 'blog using a search engine.)
4. Every visit, take time to read others' entries and "comment" upon them. A "comment" will join a chain of responses, or a conversation, attached to a particular post. If you find you have A LOT to say in response, it may be best to leave a comment such as "See my entry in response, dated _______."

Those are the basics, but feel free to play around once you understand the simpler aspects of using Blogger. Remember that you can always save an entry and not post it yet if it isn't ready, and that even after you post one, you can still go back and edit it. And have fun! It's an amazing opportunity to collaborate on a show for a whole year, even when we're across the world from one another.