Innovative ideas and ideas about innovation

15.7.07

Ask and you shall receive

One of my colleagues recently asked whether it was possible to post directly to his Blogger blog via email. Hopefully, this post - which is coming straight from my email account, shows that it is.

The secret is:

  1. Log into your Blogger account
  2. Click on the 'Settings' tab and then select the Email item on the line below
  3. (this bit isn't immediately obvious). There is a blank field which will appear between your name and '@blogger.com'. You have to type something into that box. This will create your secret upload email address. In my case I typed - ah, actually, that would be telling ;-). I have now added this address to my address book.
  4. Remember to click the 'publish' option below so that your emails will be immediately published - unless, of course, that's not what you want to happen
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And that's the lot.

2 comments:

Andy Burnett said...

Hmmm, turns out it might be slightly more complicated than I thought. Although I can email my posts, they text seems to have odd line breaks which I then need to go and tidy up. I think I need to play with the settings

spideytim said...

and dont forget that you can post to your blogger blog from your mobile (cell) phone too - which makes for very easy capture of ideas on the go. Word of warning though, it appears that blogger will only capture the first 162 characters (including the title) so a long winded SMS that goes over to 2 messages wont all be published - which means that we shall have to practice the skill of writing more consicely... As Mark Twain says, "if i had more time i'd write a shorter letter"

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