By The Way...

Yesterday I wrote about ways to find AOL Journals that match your interests. Now I want to show you how to put your own Journal in multiple communities, so that people searching for Journals in AOL's Hometown Communities can find yours easily and simply. Here's how you do it:

First, go to Keyword: Hometown. (That's an AOL-only link.) At the top of the Hometown page, you'll see an area that lists your Journals and Web pages. Select your Journal, and then click on the "Select Community" button. This will take you to a new page which lists the Community to which your Journal already belongs.

Below this listing, you'll find another button, labeled "Add a New Community." Click on it, and you'll presented with a page that allows you to place your AOL Journal in any of the dozens of AOL Hometown Communities that currently exist. Pick your community, and then click "Save." Congratulations -- your Journal has a new community in which people can find it.

Do this to add your AOL Journal to multiple communities -- you don't have to limit yourself to one or two (but make sure it's a community that you or your Journal has some tie to). I encourage you to put your Journal into these communities: The more people who do it, the more useful searching among the Hometown Communities will be, and the better chance AOL Journal writers and readers will find the Journals that will click with their interests.

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