This post is directed to the Windows Live Writer team! I really enjoy the WLW tool for blogging, in fact I’ve been using the latest build since it was released a week or so ago and have not blogged about it.
I could rave about all the features, but I’ll simply say that the tagging, category improvements, performance, PNG support and the WLW Gallery at Windows Live are great improvements to WLW. Keep up the good work!
Now my one negative comment. Pre-set post date info does not work with WordPress. If I want to set the date a post appears on my blog, sometime in the future, the blog mysteriously travels back in time to December 31st, 1969! Is there a chance that this could be fixed? I’ve seen the same behavior in Word 2007 B2.
Fixing this one feature would make this already fantastic tool, indispensable.
Robert Scoble makes a great point, blogs make for a great PR tool for CEO’s and corporations. Why can’t more CEO’s make public statements using a blog?
In my own employer’s industry, we could make use of a corporate or CEO blog on many levels. We could speak to product questions, to company initiatives in the community, and so on.
The instantaneous and free-form nature of a blog is such a great tool to communicate with customers, partners and clients – wish we could make use of them where I work.
The Windows Live Writer team has issued an updated beta that fixes a few issues and provides a flexible new tagging option. Here is a summary of the changes in the latest beta:
Tagging support
Support for Blogger Beta
Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
Improved startup performance
Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
Custom date support for Community Server
Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
More robust image posting to Live Spaces
Improved style detection for blogs
Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
I’m working on customizing the tagging option for Technorati as shown in the tags below. You have the ability to edit the HTML code for the tags – looks good so far!
I thought that I would drop a quick post over lunch. I’m down in the lobby of the office, kicking back with some Damn Yankees.
Had to get away from the desk for a little bit if you know what I mean. 😉 Putting my phone through it’s paces reading news, posting, and listening to tunes. Kind of fun when it all works.
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