OK... So I'm composing this post in Zoho Writer, which is an online word processing application that I used to recommend to patrons in the days before OO Word Processors on the Groovix PACs. I like Zoho writer because of the web-based interface, and readily available editing options for your document. There are lots of fonts, as well as all the text editing options that you'd expect to see in an offline word processing application.
Zoho writer allows you to share an online document with your friends & colleagues, and to invite them to view the document with either read-only or read / write privileges. This presents a great opportunity for collaboration, and is an alternative to the use of a wiki for building a document, especially since there are simple and straightforward versioning tools that would allow edits to be undone.
Oh, hey, there's also a "publish to blog" feature... (goes off to mess with it...)
OK.. back in the Blogger interface, so that I can add some images.
There are two pop-up windows. The first asks you to choose a service & enter your username etc:
The second pop-up lets you select a blog, choose to publish the doc as a draft, and convert keywords in the document into Technorati tags.
Zoho has a somewhat comprehensive "Publish to Blog" help page, but of course I have some thoughts:
- The post didn't have a title when it was published. It was called "untitled." Perhaps if I "save as" in Zoho first the post would have to document name?
- There wasn't a way to enter Blogger's labels into the draft post, so I end up in the Blogger window anyway.
