Why should I be looking for a tool like this? I’m tired of doing all the typing and formating of other peoples content in the blogs I manage. The copywriters I have are really have problems with WordPress’s editor. Yes, even when I’ve installed all the WYSIWYG tools. I have been using Windows Live Writer, but it doesn’t help for people who have Mac’s. So, when I found ScribeFire as a FireFox addon, I was overjoyed.

There are two components of ScribeFire. The first is the blog editor I’m speaking about and there is an opportunity to generate revenue from ScribeFire QuickAds. I’m just beginning to get involved with that and will provide my review on that later.

Back to ScribeFire. You can use this cool little blog editor to author content in either a post or a page and publish it to the site. The installation is easy and straightforward. You can setup the tool enable publishing to multiple blogs, nice. The tool can do the following:

• Add YouTube videos to your posts and blogs.
• Upload pictures.
• Save posts as drafts
• Categorize and tag posts
• Deliver your posts to your faviorate social web sites.

The coolest part, the support for many different blog platforms and services. Take a look at this list for blogging services ScribeFire supports:

• WordPress.com (http://www.wordpress.com)
• LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com)
• Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/)
• Windows Live Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com)
• Performancing (http://www.performancing.com)
• Jeeran (http://www.jeeran.com)
• Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/)
• MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/)
• b2Evolution (http://b2evolution.net)
• Splinder (http://www.splinder.com/)

Look at the number of blogging platforms:

• WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org/)
• Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/)
• Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)
• Textpattern (http://www.textpattern.com/)
• Roller (http://www.rollerweblogger.org)
• Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)

Check it out and let us know your thoughts as well. It has worked really well with the copywriters I support. They love the simplicity and functionality it provides to author posts for our blogs.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

Directions on how to use Press This

• In the lower right hand side of the Write or Manage section of the WordPress Admin, right click and save the Press This bookmarklet to your bookmarks.
• Begin to surf the web.
• Click the Press This bookmark any time you find something you want to cite in your blog. You can also highlight text first if that’s what you want to cite.
• Select and arrange text, images, video, or quotes within the Press This window. Add your thoughts and edit at will.
• Publish (or save) directly from the window when you’re done.

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