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From MIcrosoft Office Sharepoint Blog: What is Windows Live Writer?

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Currently compatible with Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Wordpress, Community_Server, PBlogs.gr, JournalHome, the MetaWeblog API, the Moveable Type API, and all blogs that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability).

Windows Live Writer introduces the Provider Customization API that enables both rich customization of Windows Live Writer’s behavior as well as the opportunity to add new functionality to the product. Currently Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and TypePad have all taken advantage of this API to expose additional service-specific features within Windows Live Writer.

Windows Live Writer is currently available in 6 different languages.

Why Use It?
It’s easy to use, supports multiple blogging platforms, provides a good preview of the post prior to posting, and makes formatting, inserting images, and inserting inline videos much easier than coding by hand. Plus, you have the capability to use the add-in library and even write your own add-ins using the WLW API.

Since discovering WLW a year ago, it’s all I use for blogging to my own blog on Windows Live Spaces, and also a blog I maintain on the SharePoint intranet where I work.

To make my posts stand out, I frequently incorporate images and video into my posts - on occasion creating my own training videos and then inserting them into my blog posts. WLW makes this easy.

Inserting Videos:
Here is a training video I did using Windows Media Encoder for screen capture, Microsoft Media Encoder to encode and post directly to MSN SoapBox and the Silverlight Streaming Service. From Windows Live Writer I can insert a video from my Silverlight Streaming Service or MSN Soapbox - even get a preview mode of the video. Nice.

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&#038;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:1f7b5338-af13-452d-b93d-38eb293159f7&#038;showPlaylist=true&#038;from=msnvideo" target="_new" title="Using SharePoint Linked Datasources from SharePoint Designer">Video: Using SharePoint Linked Datasources from SharePoint Designer</a>


Posted in SharePoint Designer on April 9th, 2009

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