Interesting term Blogcrafting is...yet a fitting description of what we do as blog publishers no matter what type of content we are publishing. Fred publishes his thoughts on blogcrafting over at the Qumana blog. Fred lays out the parts of information gathering and repurposing for publishing. We all have our own way of implementing knowledge management tasks from researching, marking, filing and formulating information for disseminating to our networks.

 

The speed of information flow and blog publishing leads to the issue of usability with regards the tools that support the process of constructing or reconstructing the wide variety of content we gather for publishing through our blogs. Specifically, blog software for easy publishing and editing have been around for a short time and I've taken several windows-based blog editors for a spin with pretty satisfactory results.

 

Fred's post is interesting to me for two reasons. First, he sets out in clear fashion the process of content development and the dilemma of finding ways to developing content efficiently within a bloggers context. Secondly, Qumana is the publisher of a new blog editor software tool that is about the be released shortly. It was a bit interesting having this peek inside the mind of someone on the Qumana team and have them layout the content development process as they see it. Interesting to me because the Qumana tool really sets its design on streamlining the content development process from gathering, to processing publishing and a slightly differently way that isn't all that novel but does provide certain efficiencies and benefits unattainable in other blog post editor tools.

 

I've been beta testing this tool (this post is constructed with Qumana) behind the scenes and I'm pretty excited about where this tool is headed. It's a bit different from the standard fare of blog editor software currently available and this tool should shape up to be a major contender as it gets underway.

 

Much of what Qumana is planning to do with their blog editor (called Qumana LE) is to be kept under wraps for now but you should keep your eye on their blog for news on the official release and give it a spin. If you are like me and are always on the look out for ways to streamline your content development and construction process while bloging, Qumana should be on your watchlist. I'm going to do a full review of my experience with Qumana LE at a later date. Stay tuned.

 

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