Post an entry from Google® Docs to Quick Blog

Users of Google Docs creation sharing service now have an easy route to post their entries to their Quick Blog.  Using the remote blogging feature (paid blog only)

Post an entry from Google Docs to Quick Blog

Google Docs makes it easy to compose entries to your Quick Blog using an Office style interface. Using the remote blogging feature (paid blog only)  and Google Docs which you can locate here. You will need a separate account with Google to use this feature. 
 
If’ you have already set up “Remote blogging” then you can skip the next paragraph.

Remote blogging can be found under “Manage Blog” > “Settings” and select the “Remote blogging” tab.   Now create a username and password that’s different from your main blog login (we’ll remind you if it’s not) and save these settings.  This user name and password  applies only  to the main blog account. Sub Authors can use their existing log in and password. Your blog is now able to receive posts from Google Docs.

To set this up with Google Docs, click on settings, click on the documents tab and then select “edit info” from the blog settings.

Select
• “My own server / Custom”
• then  API MetaWeblog
• URL This is your Quick Blog’s address plus /metaweblog.aspx appended to it. E.g  http://blog.yourblogname.com/metaweblog.aspx 
• Enter your remote user name and password
• Save your settings 

Now you are ready to post.  Write a test post, click on publish and select publish to Blog.  My word , er  Google Docs, that was easy. 

 

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