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Today’s release features a brand new graduate from the Blogger in Draft testing ground: Import and Export for Blogger blogs.

The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options in the blog creation process. To get you started, we've rounded up a handful of ideas that can be done with importing and exporting:

• Merge two or more blogs into one. Have a few scattered blogs and want to get a fresh start? Now you can combine comments and posts from multiple blogs into a brand new blog.
• Move individual posts from blog to blog. Cross-publish your posts on multiple blogs, or transfer large batches of posts from one blog to another with a single click.
• Back up your blog to your own storage. It's never a bad idea to create backup copies of your own content, and now you can easily export an archival copy of your blog to your hard drive with a simple tool.
• Move your blog somewhere else. Our standard Atom XML export format will open up new blogging channels between providers, and let you take your content with you should you decide to move somewhere else. And of course, if you decide to come back to Blogger, importing your export file will get you back up and running in seconds.

You can access Import and Export from the Blog Tools section on the Settings | Basic tab.

We have also added new importing options to the blog creation process:

For some more detailed info on all of the things you can do with Import and Export, please check out our accompanying help article.

A couple caveats

• Currently we only support importing Blogger blogs. We don't yet support importing from WordPress, Typepad, LiveJournal or any other blogging platforms.
• Before importing a blog for the first time, we recommend that you create a new, throwaway blog to import into so you get a sense for how the process works. Once you’re comfortable, import into your public blog.
• If you have enabled a content warning for your blog, then you will have to remove it before your blog can be exported.

Posted by JJ from the Data Liberation Front at 6:00 PM

Create Pages in Blogger

Create Pages in Blogger

By Sean McCullough, Software Engineer

Another top user-requested feature has just graduated from Blogger In Draft! Blogger now makes it easy to create Pages linked from your blog. 

This feature lets you easily publish static information on stand-alone pages. For example, you can create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location.

You create a page similar to how you write a blog post. From Blogger click the Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. (Note: you can create up to 10 pages.)

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the new Pages widget. The Pages widget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog's sidebar.

In the Pages widget, you can decide which pages will be linked and in what order they will appear. You can also choose whether you want new pages to appear automatically in the Pages widget by checking or unchecking the box to the left of Add new Pages by default.

Finally, for those of you that have custom templates, your custom template may not automatically support Pages as horizontal "tabs". If you are familiar with HTML, follow these instructions on how to add Pages to your custom template.

Looking forward to seeing all of the Pages that bloggers create!

Loneliness Is Not Always Deadly!

Written By: Anne Ahira
Dear, many people who do not like solitude, because time passed much more long and tedious. 'Self-oh alone' ... It turned out that these trivial things can become big problems for some people! Did you including such? :-) Indeed, loneliness is often identified with the scary, frustrating, and even become a symbol of sadness. However, if we want to open minds, actually it is not always solitary deadly! Loneliness can have two meanings ... First, regarding physical solitude that actually, with no people around. Second, only the shape of feeling alone. It could be someone in the crowd, but felt the silence. you may have experienced something similar, especially when having trouble with coworkers, friends, family, or boyfriend? :-) Etc. ..! One thing to remember guys, solitude with any sense really does not matter if we are able to manage it well, the feelings, attitudes and all the circumstances. How can we manage to make it more meaningful solitude? Do the following: 1. Look busy with positive activities very you like, for example by reading, writing, sports, singing? :-) Whatever your favorite. In this way, isolation will be felt more fun! 2. Second, recall the things that dreams are made of your and have not been performed. your could open a personal agendas, photographs of earlier times, books, and so forth. Believe it, this way will bring your to the limited time to achieve everything. If you have this, would not it be great loneliness? ;-) 3. Third, make a list of as many of the desire to manifest you while still alive. Perhaps by writing back 'crazy desire' when your was a kid? Or the other dreams that have not done? At that you will be realized, turns out a lot of things need solitude for yg make it happen! 4. And last .... This actually is the main * * and the first thing to do ... you Get close to the All-loving self-ur. This loneliness will be more aware of the nature of existence in the world your. This belief more strongly, the more robust capabilities through life ur, with any situation. In essence, do not let you trapped in the atmosphere of solitude 'negative heart', let it drag on, to make desperate guys. When your would open my eyes, we are never really alone. There are other people around us. What is clear, certainly there are always people who can you make friends, and talk! If you want to open, your in solitude could reflect many things. In solitude u could find maturity, wisdom, brilliant idea, and maximize the potential that your had. you also in isolation can reveal honesty, which can be defeated by the arrogance and ego are often found in the crowd guys! Inevitably, loneliness can come at any time to anyone, including to friends. Well, if one day or even now your was hit by 'lonely' feels aka 'own quiet', u must remember, that solitude is not always fatal! Manage your was feeling well, and make aloneness becomes more meaningful. :-)