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Google Docs have been a good online word processor where users can edit and publish their docs easily. The array of editing tools and its features makes it all more feasible and flexible. Google Docs are still adding more features to make it all more attractive and user friendly. Post at Official Google Docs Blog on “Live Blogging� with Docs depicts, how Google is still taking effective measures to help its users.
Users can use their deftly online Doc processor for blogging a live event- Yeah Google Docs allows you to update your event from time to time. Wether you are a person, who is responsible for organizing an event and need to call a conference, meeting or a keynote address or a Blogger who is eager to keep his audience updated with the latest happenings of a live event, Google Docs will surely help you.
The live blogging with Google Docs allows its users to instantly edit a blog post. You can easily add images, hyperlinks, tables as in other blog editors and can retain your web traffic as you can stick to your own blog without using a third party platform. Other features that makes it worthy to use includes real time saving of a post with a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+S)and insertion of current date and time against each update. Its obvious that timestamp is as important as the news as date and time will give a brief overview of an incident and adds spice to your news. By hitting Ctrl+M key, date and time along with author’s name will be displayed where you can eliminate author’s name before publishing it.
Let us give you some brief description of how to get started. Obviously you need a new document on Google Docs with a a suitable heading and a keynote. You can save it, and this is where actual trick starts. You can embed this Google doc in your blog or can republish your new content in an entire new blog post.
To embed a live doc in your blog is as easy as 1,2,3. Just select “Publish as Web Page� from the Share Menu by checking an Automatic republish option and you are done. Now View your document as a Web Page and a plain doc without any editing options will pop up. You can embed it by copying its URL with an IFrame tag. This enables an instant updation of your doc whenever you would be writing something new and saving it.
While you can republish your Google Doc every time by a simple twist. Follow steps of Publishing doc as a web page but without closing your current window, open a new tab in a browser and load the same document. Whenever you add a new content to your post and want to publish it then go back to your previous window and hit “Republish Post�. This will overwrite the whole previous matter and will load your new content.
So, now you can easily blog any live event or call a conference by sticking to your own Google Docs.
