8 business blogging tools for working efficiently
Posted by Patrick on February 22nd, 2006
This is from Hendry¬?Lee at Spero News.
Mozilla Firefox¬? – the only browser I use for browsing. One useful feature of this browser is the tab feature, which allows user to open multiple browser window on a single window.
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wbloggar¬? – a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) blog editor software that allows me to post to many different blog platforms and save drafts for later editing and posting.
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FeedDemon¬? – a desktop based news aggregator. I subscribe to hundreds of RSS and Atom feeds as the news source for blogging. It also supports podcasting. This software helps me keep up with the amount of information I need to consume on a daily basis. It tells me when new content is available without having me to check the site manually.
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SnagIt¬? – great program for capturing text, images on your desktop. This saves a lot of time as you can grab only a section of the window, so you don?Äôt need to crop it manually using an image editing software. SnagIt can produce the torn paper effect on images in a snap, a feature that I use frequently on my blogs.
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Adobe Photoshop¬? – the only image editing software I rely on. SnagIt can do basic editing but since I sometimes design some logo and perform other image processing tasks, I need this software. I find it particularly useful to optimize images for web. I try to limit the size of every image I post to under 20KB, often times less than 10 KB.
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Mindjet MindManager¬? – the indispensable mind-mapping software for project planning, article brainstorming, and others. I even use it to get a draft outline of my article series. Mind-mapping happens to be my favorite way to brainstorm.
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The Journal¬? – My desktop based journaling software for notes, ideas, URLs, todo list, frequently asked questions, resources, journals and scratch pad. I implement my to-do list using this software successfully, except the calendaring system.
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Gmail¬? – My favorite e-mail program that I use to check emails twice a day. Having forwarding, POP3 and excellent filtering features make it great. Recently, Google has integrated Google Talk with this e-mail service. This means you can keep in touch with your colleagues more easily. It even captures the conversation, which consists of ideas and other important things into its own folder.
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