Blogging has become an important form of social media for professional and for personal activities. It is important to find what tools brings out your best blogging skills. Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog-publishing application for you PC users to work off-line. You are able to blog using Windows Live Writer and then publish to your blogging site provided by Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad, SharePoint, and Community Server.
Work with photos, videos, maps, and plug-ins. So, not only are you able to post photographs, but Windows Live Writer also makes it possible to post albums. There are a number of editing tools included. Whatever published effect you set for your photos such as a “tilt” or a “scatter” album, a link will direct the viewer to that album in Windows Live or a larger photograph. Also keep in mind there is a toolbar provided for formatting your post. You can set up embedded videos to not only publish in your blog but also in YouTube or Soapbox. Customize your application using Windows Live Writer’s provided plug-ins. The newer plug-ins are in favor of some very popular social media applications which include Flickr Upload, Digg This, and Twitter Notify. So you will be actively blogging as well as sharing through the mentioned applications.
Worried about the visual result? Your blog post is meant to appear in preview mode as it will in the published view. This should prevent surprises from popping up in your published post.
Here is Windows Live Writer’s “Full Feature List”:
Are you using or have used Windows Live Writer? What do you think?
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