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The latest release out of the Windows Live stable is a beta of Windows Live Writer, a new desktop application for publishing blog posts (and in the future potentially other forms of online content).
Setting aside the fact that the product is from my employer, it’s an interesting application. It supports all the major blog platforms (WordPress, Moveable Type, Spaces etc.) and along with all the usual formatting options you’d expect, it adds a range of other useful features including the spell checker, WYSIWYG editing and the automatic capability to upload photos to your blog and then add effects to them.
For example:
It also allows you to insert Windows Live Maps and with the release of a Software Development Kit it’s likely there’ll be a raft of plug-ins released that will add even more functionality.
If you’re blogging on Windows it’s definitely worth a look.
Update:
Tim Heuer has already released two new plug-ins for Windows Live Writer. Tag4Writer enables you to add Technorati tags to your post and Flickr4Writer enables you to insert pictures from Flickr.
tags: Windows+Live+Writer
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About this blog
I started this blog back in March 2002. The original purpose was to try and capture links and content about PR and marketing from around the web. Unfortunately these days – and 2,400 posts later – I’m not as prolific a blogger as I used to be.
About Tom Murphy
I am originally from Dublin, Ireland but have lived and worked in Washington state in the United States since March 2009.
A big part of my job is digging into how new social technologies and channels intersect with our traditional marketing tools and techniques. So much has changed since I started working in public relations back in 1992, yet the basic fundamentals of great communications have remained constant.
I’ve had the great fortune to work in a range of great in-house and agency roles working with many of the world’s greatest technology brands such as Corel, Gateway, Intel and Microsoft, as well as a range of successful – and of course unsuccessful – independent start-ups. I’ve had fantastic opportunities to work around Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia, North America and Latin America – and along the way worked on the full range of PR and marketing communications functions from strategy to message development, media relations programs, crisis communications, company spokesperson, agency management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), product communications, internal communications, analyst relations, investor relations, stakeholder engagement, and marketing communications.
Thankfully, the one constant through my career has been the opportunity to continuously learn, try new things and drive positive change.
On a personal note, I’m married to the long-suffering Sorcha and we have the world’s best son, Cillian and the world’s best daughter, Anna.
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I work for Microsoft – it’s always worthwhile to get these things out in the open.
I’m using the new blog features that have been included in the latest beta of 2007 Word to write this post.
Word is obviously still in beta and according to Joe Friend on the Office team [via Neville Hobson] this was a late addition.Â
I think it still needs work to make the set up a little easier – and I have had a problem with the date – it defaults to 1970 but given it’s a beta I’m sure that will be ironed out.
Blogging from Word makes a lot of sense to me. But then I would say that wouldn’t I? 🙂
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