Best Least Known Blogging Tool
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Darren Rowse poses an interesting question in asking What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools? It clearly also is a topic that will generate a great deal of comment and discussion given the popularity of his Problogger blog.
It’s time for a little discussion – lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there’s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I’m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it’d be a good question to open up to the wider community – what are your favourite 10 blogging tools? I suspect most of us will probably include our blogging platform (Blogspot, WordPress, TypePad etc) in the list somewhere but other than that anything goes. Perhaps it’s a comments tool, perhaps a desktop editor, perhaps a plugin or widget – anything goes!
I am sure the resulting blog post with all its comments will be very search engine visible and many others will link to it.
However I am not sure that these lists of 10 that are so search-engine friendly are necessarily the most useful to readers. In this case, I can suggest a more user-friendly topic, which will undoubtedly be much less search-engine visible. I hope many will choose to comment since this could collect a host of revelations and new finds for our readers. The question we are asking is:
What is your favorite blogging tool that you believe few others may have found?
I could have nominated Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is software to create text by dictation, and which is a real productivity help:
Dragon NaturallySpeaking gives small business and advanced PC users the power to create documents, reports and emails three times faster than most people type — with up to 99% accuracy. Most people speak over 120 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a minute. That means you can create documents and emails about three times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon never makes a spelling mistake, and it actually gets smarter the more you use it!
DNS does of course cost money, so my nomination for the best, least known blogging tool is to use Mind Maps to organize your thoughts before you expand on your ideas. A great free tool to use, which I highly recommend is FreeMind, which is free mind mapping software.
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
If you have some blogging tool that you are using that you think is not well enough known, why not add a mention in the comments. I’m sure others will appreciate your effort.
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October 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
There is one tool that saves me a lot of time when installing a new wordpress blog and it is thesis theme. The cost is high but the productivity is so high when setting up a new blog is so good that it really eliminates all the other plugins. I don’t need seo plugins or anything else on thesis blogs. But if you want a pretty theme out of the box without any customisation then that theme is not the perfect choise as you can see from my blog that I don’t use thesis on that one because I liked the layout and looks right from the box without any big modifications to make it pretty. Have to give credit for wpthemedesigner.com for some good looking and seo ready themes.
Other plugins that I’m going to search are automated backup plugins so that I can get wp backups to my email every month or so. Would like to hear more about those plugins?
October 14th, 2009 at 6:02 am
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October 15th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Great tool. Will surely check it
October 16th, 2009 at 7:27 am
You know it funny, but despite training salespeople in the use of mindmaps for goal setting, I still think they are more hassle than the they are worth!
October 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
For me FreeMind is the best for me because it offers a lot of great features that makes my Blogging very easy. And the best of all its license is free. I have been using it for three months now, and find it totally indispensable! I simply can’t say enough good things about how it has helped me get on top of an overwhelming workload. I’ve tried task managers and project managers ad-nauseam, and they are either too simplistic or too cumbersome.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Good post, I however disagree (an honest disagreement) with the bolding and attempt to highlight words. Your comments should not be so long that you need to highlight certain sections, short and sweet are best.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Can you download that dragon software from somewhere or is it only a shipped product?
October 19th, 2009 at 6:55 am
You must purchase the Dragon Naturally Speaking Software and it is available as a download. Just Google it to find sources.
October 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
The most important LEAST used tool is two words Thank You,
It’s horrible how bloggers don’t take 2 seconds to thank each other
everyone should try it it’s pretty easy LOL
Nice blog thanks
For example dude knows you linked to him do you think he is going to take a sec to stop by and say thanks Yet people idolize these people ? Such is Life
October 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
… and thank you for your comment, John. Great point to make, particularly in this social media world we all inhabit.
October 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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