How to Submit Articles (Posts) to LifeTwo

There are three ways to send articles or posts to us at LifeTwo:

1) Registered users can contribute material using our web-based content management system. Warning: this is not the most intuitive method!

When you are logged in, in the rightmost column there is a block titled "Your LifeTwo." One of the choices is "Contribute a Post." Click on it and a long form will appear. You can ignore many of the options -- focus on the title and body. If you write your copy off-line, you can just paste it into the body block. An important note: you have to click the "submit" button all the way at the bottom to save it.

If you don't want to deal with the many options, send an email to intake [at] lifetwo.com when you've submitted the article so that we can read it over, "tag" it, tweak the techie settings, and publish it.

Or ...

2) Registered users can also send a contribution via an email to q [at] LifeTwo.com* and the article will automatically be inserted into our content management system. It'll be ready for us to check formatting, add tags, and publish it.

If you choose this method, please do the following:

• While we're debugging this new process, cc the email to intake [at] LifeTwo.com* so that we know know there's something in the queue.
• Send the email from the same address you used to register at LifeTwo. That's one way we avoid spam submissions.
• Send the email as text-only rather than formatted using html (if this doesn't make sense to you, don't worry about it).
• Even though you're sending the email as plain text, you can add formatting two ways:
  • You can use the following html tags: a, em, strong, b, i, u, cite, code, ul, ol, li, p, hr, blockquote, table, tr, td
  • You can use Markdown syntax, which is simpler than html, to format and style the text.
• Try to strip out email signatures or anything else that shouldn't be in the published piece.

Or ...

3) You can just send the article as an email to intake [at] lifetwo.com.* That'll get forwarded to us and we can manually put it into the LifeTwo system. Be sure to tell us the user name you've registered with. Eventually we'll move away from this option, but it'll work for now.

If you have any questions, post them here or send an email to the intake@ address above.

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* email address obfuscated to prevent spammers from harvesting it; you'll figure it out!