Entries tagged 'blogs'
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
So in fiddling about with Google Docs‘ sharing settings, I noticed a new feature that appears to let docs be published as blog entries to major blogging platforms such as WordPress, so I wanted to try it out.
We use Google Docs (and
WordPress.com) a ton at work, and this might be a really great way for folks to do collaborative blog posts, working on the text together on Google Docs and then sending it to the blog.
It can handle font formatting (bold, italics, underline) and pictures (see above), both of which are deal-breakers for this type of thing. It also tags your blog post according to the labels you applied to the Google document.
Yet, it still isn’t perfect. The code produced by Google Docs is, just like its other HTML, really ugly and complicated and you still have to use WordPress’ admin tools to post videos and other embedded content.
The biggest challenge is that it doesn’t transfer over document/post titles, but that looks like it’s under development. Also, changes made in WordPress’ admin interface don’t sync back to Google Docs. Similarly, any changes made to the Google document itself have to be manually synced back to the blog.
So, while it’s not the most bug free or fantastic Google offering out there, it’s one more neat tool in the arsenal and one more reason to ditch Microsoft Office.
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Lee & Sachi LeFever of CommonCraft Media yesterday released the latest in their “Plain English” series of Web videos, this time, covering the broad topic of social media:
CommonCraft has produced a long series of these funny and easily-understandable videos, covering topics such as social networking, blogs, rss, social bookmarking, Twitter, wikis, and, of course, zombies. We even hired them to produce a great video for us illustrating how schools in California are funded.
Lee & Sachi do amazingly creative work and are a prime example of exploiting social media for fun and profit. Congrats!
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
So it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this beast, but I’m trying to commit to not worrying about writing the perfect blog post, but rather to stop when I think “I should blog about this” and just do it. Hopefully, the result will be more posts, probably more short ones and the occasional literary jewel when I actually have time to sit down and write.
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