Gartner – Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit (and using Word as a blog authoring tool)

I'm attending the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit this week, and these conferences always give me a blogging boost. I've been to a few sessions so far, and I'm pretty impressed with some of the speakers, so I thought I'd take notes in public form (via the blog). To do this, I'm also testing out Word's integration with Typepad (the company that hosts my blog). It's pretty cool so far, and here is how Word integration with typepad works:

   

1) First, I created a blank word "blog" document template on my desktop:

1a) I did this by clicking on the Word "Office Button" and Publish  Blog

2) Word asked me to set up my link to my public blog. There is easy publishing available for Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint (of course), Community Server, TypePad and WordPress. Though if your blog software offers web services for publishing, you'll probably be able to publish to it.

 

   

3) Finally, I started to write my blog posting. It's pretty darn intuitive to write, add categories, post and edit existing postings. Here's a picture of this blog posting:

 

   

I like this for a few reasons:

a) I can create blog postings while offline (for example when I'm at a conference) by using word as the "note taking" tool, and then publish when I come online.

b) I get to use the familiar interface of word, including spell check.

c) I don't have to remember my blog password. I tell you I forget that thing every time (might have something to do with blogging frequency).

d) Personally, I think the word interface is better than Typepads. It's that cool ribbon that does it for me.

Comments

[Bryony]

Keep up the good work.