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Blogging from Word 2007

Toni Frankola - April 4, 2008

I just love Word using Word as a client tool for publishing blogs. It is a really good example of software + services model.

For years I have been working with different end users that are using custom and Microsoft solutions to create web content.

While using Word as you web/blog editor key benefits for end users are:
• Word is a familiar interface, and users know how to use it (they do not need to learn a new tool)
• Most features are really easy to use (e.g. picture resizing)
• User does need to know anything about web concepts (e.g. Word will optimize/publish your images as separate files)
• Extra features available (spell-check, formatting, tables, smart art)

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From Word you can publish to 6 blogging platforms, but I mostly use it with Windows SharePoint Services, and I am just missing one thing here: inability to activate blog features on any site.

In WSS 3.0 blogs are only available as site templates so you must have a separate site for each blog. While talking about blogs it does not make sense to have more than one blog on a SharePoint site, but you could use blog feature as announcements list or something else. It would be great if one could simply put a number of “blog” on a single site.

In my next posts I will try to describe how to overcome some of the above mentioned limitations.

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Toni Frankola

Entrepreneur, IT consultant, speaker, blogger, and geek. Co-founder of syskit.com.

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One Response

  • Tobias Zimmergren April 5, 2008 at 11:27 am

    As an alternative, there’s the Windows Live Writer which supports a dozen different blogging engines and is just as easy to use.

    Just a tip 😉

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