As I alluded to the other day, I have found a great new blogging tool from a little software company going by the name of Microsoft (Bah, nothing will ever come of them) called 'Windows Live Writer'. This software is a free download which is part of the Live Toolset @ get.live.com.
So, you're probably asking, what's so good about it? Well, its basically a MS-Word for blogs, so everything is WYSIWIG. You can add text, pictures, links, maps and video all from the main edit screen and they will all be automatically uploaded when you post your blog, so no faffing around with uploading and linking. Its also aware of the style sheets and templates active on your blog, so there's no worry that what you type won't appear correctly when its live.
A useful feature is that you can compose your thoughts 'offline', then publish them when you have a network connection, meaning that as and when 5 minutes allow, you can add a paragraph here and there, and once you're happy, make it live. Plus, with the spell check feature, your SPAG should be a little better :).
But the killer feature for me is the ability to publish to different blog services. For example, I have configured my WLW to access my sharepoint blog on mysite, and my external blogspot account meaning that I can publish similar stories to one, either or both. The only thing that I will have to be careful about is making sure each post is suitable for its target audience, e.g. revealing sensitive corporate information to the outside, or putting profanity on the Internal Site. However, this shouldn't be too much of a problem, and I try to keep things fairly anonymous anyway.
In conclusion, anyone keeping multiple blogs upto date should checkout this software, its actually one decent tool to come from the house of Gates.
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