http://www.itauthor.com/2009/08/22/using-publish2-to-create-a-what-im-reading-list-on-your-blog/ Stuff about technical writing and software Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.itauthor.com/2009/08/22/using-publish2-to-create-a-what-im-reading-list-on-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-7093 Tom Johnson Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:43:30 +0000 http://www.itauthor.com/2009/08/22/using-publish2-to-create-a-what-im-reading-list-on-your-blog/#comment-7093 I'm glad to see that this remodeling of Writer River with Publish2 is working out for you. You've contributed some excellent content to the newsgroup and Writer River site, so it's good to hear feedback. Let me share the latest news. Within the past month, Publish2 released an update to their <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/publish2/" rel="nofollow">Publish2 WordPress plugin</a> that includes a Link Assist feature. This Link Assist feature is cool because it allows you to easily post links from other submissions in the newsgroup. To activate Link Assist, go to your user profile in WordPress and select the Link Assist activation check box. In the Publish2 links URL field, add the link to the newsgroup: http://www.publish2.com/newsgroups/technical-communication Now when you write a new post, you'll see a Link Assist panel to the right, showing the latest additions to the newsgroup. If you want to link to any article someone has submitted, you can easily do so using the link buttons at the bottom. I find this takes the whole endeavor to a new level, because the newsgroup now provides means for finding and posting about interesting articles. It's no longer a one-way contribution. You can easily pull from the newsgroup to post to your blog. By the way, speaking of your submissions, if you ever want me to send you the exported posts you contributed to Writer River before I switched to Publish2, so that you can import them into your specific reading category on your blog, just let me know and I'll do it. Thanks again for participating, Tom I'm glad to see that this remodeling of Writer River with Publish2 is working out for you. You've contributed some excellent content to the newsgroup and Writer River site, so it's good to hear feedback.
Let me share the latest news. Within the past month, Publish2 released an update to their Publish2 WordPress plugin that includes a Link Assist feature. This Link Assist feature is cool because it allows you to easily post links from other submissions in the newsgroup.
To activate Link Assist, go to your user profile in WordPress and select the Link Assist activation check box. In the Publish2 links URL field, add the link to the newsgroup: http://www.publish2.com/newsgroups/technical-communication
Now when you write a new post, you'll see a Link Assist panel to the right, showing the latest additions to the newsgroup. If you want to link to any article someone has submitted, you can easily do so using the link buttons at the bottom.
I find this takes the whole endeavor to a new level, because the newsgroup now provides means for finding and posting about interesting articles. It's no longer a one-way contribution. You can easily pull from the newsgroup to post to your blog.
By the way, speaking of your submissions, if you ever want me to send you the exported posts you contributed to Writer River before I switched to Publish2, so that you can import them into your specific reading category on your blog, just let me know and I'll do it.
Thanks again for participating,
Tom

]]> http://www.itauthor.com/2009/08/22/using-publish2-to-create-a-what-im-reading-list-on-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-7090 What I’m Reading: a new way of posting to Writer River Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:32:47 +0000 http://www.itauthor.com/2009/08/22/using-publish2-to-create-a-what-im-reading-list-on-your-blog/#comment-7090 [...] 30th, 2009    1 Comment [This post is out of date. For a better method, see this post. - AC, 22 August 2009] Writer River – the collaborative list of links to tech-writer-related [...] [...] 30th, 2009    1 Comment [This post is out of date. For a better method, see this post. - AC, 22 August 2009] Writer River – the collaborative list of links to tech-writer-related [...]

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