What are Personal Journals? Personal Journals are much like Web Logs or "Blogs". Members may post entries as often as they
wish throughout the day. When the entries are displayed, they are ordered by post time and date.
Unlike a bulletin board, the author of the Journal may re-edit the entries as often and as many
times as she wishes. She may even change the post time and thus change the order in which the
entries appear.
Posting in the Quiet of Your Own Home Entries posted to your journals may contain thoughts and musings that you do not think would fit
on any particular board thread and that you don't necessarily need to get any response from. For
example, as you are reading a number of books on a subject, you may post notes to a journal you
dedicate to that subject as a running log of your thoughts. Since the journals are searchable, they
may be a great research tools.
Document Structure In a sense, Personal Journals are a simple form of Online Book Authoring where the author has
great control over the content's organization in the document. For more complicated documents
organized by Chapter, Headings, and Subheadings, the "Online Books" feature is almost done.
Who May Use Personal Journals All members and unregistered guests may read Personal Journals. At the free level, Novices and
Citizens may create one Journal and post up to a total of 10 entries. Patrons not only have the
ability to create multiple journals, but also to create more entries.
Another Patron feature of Journals is "Statistics." All Patrons' journals display daily lists of readers
of their journals as well as daily and total pageview counts.
