Apr 12 2008

Setting up Google docs to edit and publish your posts

Published by Mike Temple at 11:01 am under Google, New stuff

This is a fairly straightforward procedure

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  1. make sure you have a google account – free
  2. go to google docs and start a new document – like Word
  3. write your information for your post
  4. save the file – this ensures your post has a title
  5. click on the ‘share‘ button on the rhs menus
  6. click ‘publish as web page
  7. There is then a choice of ‘publish document’ and ‘post to blog’
  8. click ‘change your blog site settings’ under the ‘post to blog’ button
  9. choose ‘my own server/custom
  10. API is moveable type API
  11. URL – put in your address where is says ‘Your site/Path
  12. mine looks like this http://miketemple123.edublogs.org/TO/xmlrpc.php – ie set up for a Wordpress API so just add the extra /TO/xmlrpc.php to the endo of your blog address
  13. Under existing blog settings, put in your edublogs username and password
  14. Add in your blog title
  15. Tick ‘include document title
  16. click OK
  17. Now when you’ve finished your post, click ‘share‘ and then ‘publish as a web page’ then publish to blog
  18. let me know what you think of this – applications please

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2 Responses to “Setting up Google docs to edit and publish your posts”

  1.   dogtraxon 12 Apr 2008 at 11:49 am

    I wonder if this, or some version of this, works with the Slideshow and Spreadsheet formats, too?
    It would be great to share slideshows via Google, directly into the blog.

    Kevin

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