While using Writely to collaborate on an industry report that I was writing, I noticed that Writely has an option to publish what you are writing to a blog. I though that I would blog about it and we can experience it together.

You can post your document to a blog by selecting Blog and then Publish post to my blog (see picture below.)

Once you have accomplished this you will then be presented with a form that will request the access information for your blog. I host my blog on my own account so I select My own server / custom, set the APT for MoveableType (I don’t know why,) and enter the URL for the xmlrpc.php file (which is in the directory that you installed Wordpress.) then I entered all of the access information and sent it off.

Problems:

• The blog title didn’t show up
• The font changes
• Removing the post from my blog doesn’t work
• Can’t categorize my posting
• If I republish, it just adds another post instead of updating the original post
• I tried to use the Writely user form but it wouldn’t pull up

I think that I am just going to stick with bloging in Wordpress for a while longer. Using Writely I had to just come back to Wordpress anyway to fix the post.

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