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It’s no secret. I love Windows Live Writer. One of the great things about it is the plugins. Recently a lot of blogger’s have been talking about Zemanta. I have been ignoring most of these posts until I discovered Zemanta had a plugin for WLW as well.

What does Zemanta do? It helps you find and load images, related articles, and references to Wikipedia to your blog post. Zemanta has a semantic algorithm which analyzes your content and compares it to a database that suggests content.

You can download Zemanta for LiveWriter here.

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Well that answer is simple enough. Live writer makes things like formatting. Adding photos, video, links (with or without no follow), and just about anything else you want to do really really easy.

All of these things can usually be done in WordPress or whatever blogging software you choose. But live writer makes cranking  out a post with multimedia a cinch. Without having to mess with code and tags and other things that can make a quick post another tedious post.

Once you have your post published. It’s easy to go to your dashboard and make sure everything is just right. Fill in those tags or add more info with all in one SEO pack.

Live writer is also great for multi author blogs which may have some writers who don’t have their coding skills up to snuff. Just have them use live writer to post and edit. Then the main administrator can take care of all of the technical issues.

For easy blogging posts, Windows Live Writer is the way to go.

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In my previous post I included a plug in for word count for Windows Live Writer. Thanks to a comment from Joe Cheng I now know that the word count function is built into the new Windows Live Writer Technical Release.

This version is still in beta but if your interested here is the download link;

Windows Live Writer Technical Release Preview

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I think everyone who has tried Windows Live Writer Knows how cool it is. For those who haven’t tried it, your really missing out. It makes blogging so easy fast and convenient. Especially for those who write for multiple blogs.

Anyway live writer has some more new plug ins, worth checking out. So in no particular order here you go:

• AdSense Coder another plug in for inserting that pesky AdSense in a post.
• Quote Of The Day Inserts a quote of the day into your post. I’ll test it now, and see if it works:

Quote of the Day:
If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence.
–Anonymous

Actually that quote of the day thing is pretty cool. You just click on it and you get the insertion. They also have a bible one for the more religious folks. Very cool. Just watch out for duplicate content penalties.

• Word Count Yay! Windows Live Writer now has a Word Count plug in. Need I say more?

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Recently while I’ve been traveling around the blogosphere and the web in general I’ve been running into sites that have eBay items listed on them. Some of them have helpful articles and the items are sorted out. Does anybody know what these sites are. Here are a couple I have recently ran into. Best HD TV and Manufacturing & Metalworking Tools. I know this is a little off of the live writer topic. But I was just wondering how these sites are made.

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It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Windows Live Writer. But today I would like to share some posts from other bloggers and their impressions of Windows Live Writer.

Windows Live Writer, best blogging tool

Windows Live Writer is of the best blogging tool that I found in recent times. The tool is very convenient to write and it provides all possible options that one needs when writing a blog post. It also integrates with most popular …

Windows Live Writer

Live Writer actually downloads your Wordpress theme locally, and you can see exactly how the published post will look while you are typing it. Earlier, I faced problems with images sizes, and even with tweaking the CSS code myself, …

Comparison of top three Blog Editors

This post compares three main blog editing softwares, namely Scribefire,Windows Live writer, and Qumana Blog Editor. For testing these softwares I used all the three software’s for writing this post. …

Windows Live Writer

First, I’m trying out Windows Live Writer as a blogging tool. Secondly, I wanted to post a picture of my certified earthquake-proof bike stand. I’ve been occasionally riding the thing to work. It’s fun, and I need the exercise. …

Why Windows Live Writer

Hee-how, I Windows Live Writer rocks! I actually see my test post reflected in my blog seconds after I hit publish. What happened is, today is a self-declared holiday. There’s not much work to do in the office since it’s still holiday …

I heart Windows Live Writer

If you are a blogger and you are looking for blogging tools, stop looking now. Windows Live Writer is the tool for you. It’s better than all those blogging tools you’ll see on the web. It’s got everything you need as a blogger. [...]

 Windows Live Writer Rocks!

A good friend of mine Jarvis told me about Windows Live Writer. I started playing with it last night and it is a great solution and its free! It is a blog service agnostic offline blog creating tool. …

In search of the perfect blogging tool

Windows Live Writer is by far the best blogging tool I’ve ever used, but sadly it’s Windows only. It’s the benchmark by which I’m judging the others, but it would get big additional bonus points (if points were being given) for making …

Multi-Blogging Tools: Windows Live Writer and ScribeFire

The new standard seems to be Windows Live Writer, though this is one more app that will delay my migration to Linux. Plugins abound, and it supports wordpress very well. This post is actually made with Live Writer.

My Tools: Windows Live Writer

My current preferred client application is Windows Live Writer. I’ve been using WLW all the way through the various beta iterations and onto the current 2008 version. It’s interesting to go back to a very simple editor after years of …

As you can see it’s almost unanimous. Most bloggers who try Windows Live Writer give it a stamp of approval. If you havn’t tested it out yet. You’re missing out.

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Pat B. Doyle just wrote a great article about how she got her e-book on kindle. Her post gives a step by step process. If anyone has info about getting their books, or blogs on Kindle, I’d love to hear about it.

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If you are a blogger or aspiring to be a blogger you should really check out Windows Live Writer. As of November 2008 Live Writer is finally out of beta stage and this is the 2008 version.  Here is what the Live Writer Team had to say:

• Works with your blog service
• Preview before you post
• Blog and publish on your schedule
• Rich media made easy
• Powerful editing tools
• More rich content with easy plug-ins
• Works seamlessly with Windows Live Spaces

More Great Features:

• Works with your existing blog.

• Copies the style of your blog.

• Makes editing, formatting, inserting video, and editing photos a breeze.

• You can go back and edit previous post with live writer.

• You can switch from one blog to another and live writer will automatically change styles.

• Plugins are available for even more functionality.

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There are at least 70 plugins, available for live writer. Making it easy to customize live writer for your individual needs. Windows Live Writer, is still somewhat new, the first non-beta version just got released this month.  Check back, with Live Writer Tips, for the latest in newly released plugins.

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