XPollenate for WindowsLiveWriter Rocks for Cross Posting to Multiple Sites
I recently tried out an add on for WindowsLiveWriter called XPollenate. It was tremendous. It is designed to make it easy to cross post an article across many blogs that you have access. Think of it as a localized press release tool.
Here’s how it works:
- Publish an article to the source site or blog
- Leave your WLW window with that original article open, then click the button for xpollenate in your sidebar or in your menu (depends on how you configure WLW).
- Select by check box option, which blogs you want to then cross post to(the cross post can include a linkback to the source article if you choose.
- Hit OK, when you are done and watch the status bar fill up as your article is cross posted to many many many sites!
Advanced Tips
- If you want the original article to be published in Blockquotes in the additional sites, just put a <blockquote> tag in the header box option(last thing in this box) and a close </blockquote> tag in the footer box option (first thing in this box).
- If you do not want to re-publish the entire article, there is an option for setting a summary and limiting that summary to x number of words.
- If you want to re-stimulate buzz, don’t re-publish to all sites at the same time, just open that original article and hit the button, then cross pollenate the post to a couple blogs one day and maybe a couple more blogs the next until you have hit everything you want to hit!
Tags: WindowsLiveWriter
