There are plugins to download for these areas:

• Comment management
• Post related
• Admin related
• Security
• Developer
• Twitter
• Feed related
• Tweaking plugins
• User related
• Spam management
• Social bookmarking
• Google Map related
• Mutli-language translation
• WP Mobile Edition – PDA friendly interface for your blog

The quality is so good that I downloaded almost all of them. See for yourself then…

So you have been writing for your blogs and this probably what you need to do:

1. connect to Internet
2. launch your browser
3. log-in to your blogging account or admin
4. work on your draft blog post
5. publish the post
6. re-edit the post
7. re-publish
8. goto #6 until you’re satisfied.

In some systems, you may also find that the following is not possible to be done, or at least very difficult to do:

• paste images
• insert table
• manipulate images such as resizing, add border, shadow etc
• insert video
• enter links easily
• have the article scheduled to be posted at a later time

Fret not, if you’ve been praying for such a tool, the prayer is quite likely answered now. It comes in the form of an application called MS Live Writer.

Here are some features I believe could help us bloggers to be more productive.

• work on draft pages offline
• insert images easily
• painless table insertion and editing
• lots of plug-ins available
• schedule posting
• manage several blog accounts at one place
• able to work on a number of posts simultaneously
• if you’re keen, you can edit the codes too
• editing is much more efficient as there’s little time lost to uploading-edit-uploading cycles.
• interface is also more friendly than most blog platforms
• publish posts directly from the editor without logging into your blog account
• suitable for many web platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint and many others.

I am keeping this one to the last. Imagine something goes down while you are writing a blog post, say the browser crashes or power goes down and you’re already on the last sentence just before you hit "publish" button. If you are aware, there are still blogging platforms out there that don’t have auto-save feature. Having a tool that auto-save your article every few minutes is definitely a must-have.

Now, go give it a try, download windows live writer for free.

If you want to add more bells and whistles, get the plug-ins here.

I hope that Live Writer will make your editing and posting a lot more enjoyable.

…and continue getting more and more opt-ins day in day out, even when I sleep.

The very first giveaway event that I participated was “The Ultimate Giveaway Round 2″ hosted by Scott Case. Thank you very much Scott! This was back in early October 2007.

The problem with giveaways is that they accept contributors mainly via invitations i.e. someone has to “refer” you to the event. So when you first started this could be a big problem as you might not know anyone that would do the sponsoring.

In my earlier post I talked about how I stumbled upon this chance from a friend’s blog. So I went to sign up using his link. Ouch! I got a wrong page i.e. the one for member to download gifts not for contributors.

I’ve got to leave a comment on the blog to ask for help. Yeah, it was the wrong link given. He then posted a new link and my registration was successful. Next step is to present a gift as giveaway.

What do I do now? What gift to submit?

After giving it some thoughts I recalled that recently I signed up at a site that has a free website builder plus a free rebrandable ebook.

HyperVRE

So I headed to the HyperVRE site, downloaded the ebook and started working to rebrand it.

Next task is to build the landing page (squeeze page) and thank you page (download page). Then I worked on the Aweber autoresponder sequence which I actually used for the first time too.

When it’s done, I went back to the giveaway site and entered the ebook as my gift plus other details. As this is my first time doing all these, the whole process took me quite a long time to finish.

Phew! I finally got it done at 3.30 in the morning.

Suspense! Will It Be Accepted?

I really didn’t know what to expect just like anything else that you do for the first time. Not sure what was the acceptable standard etc. Just prayed for the favorable outcome.

Next morning while feeling still very sleepy I checked out my email. I saw one message that made me jumped out of my seat! My gift was accepted and I was officially a contributor (for the very first time!). Did not expect it to happen so fast though.

In the past I used to download gifts from other contributors but now I joined their club instead. How excited!

Things Started To Get Better

When the event was launched I got my first few sign-ups but not that many. I was very excited anyway seeing my first few subscribers ever. You sure know how that “first-time” feeling is like.

About 10 days later I found another giveaway event that was looking for partners so I joined. This time everything has became a lot easier as I only need to submit details of my gift to the giveaway site. The landing page, thank you page, autoresponder form and follow-up emails were from the last event, I just reused them all.

Not only that. When this event launched, I was getting a lot more opt-ins compared with the first one!

So from then onwards I was just searching for new giveaway events to participate and offer my free gifts. One way is to Google by typing “jv giveaway partner” or similar. At the same time I also looked for other items that I can offer too.

I have now made it very easy for you to locate jv giveaway events, just proceed to this site below and you’ll see all of them at one place:

http://www.giveawayalert.blogspot.com/

I just repeat the same process again and again to collect more sign-ups along the way. Just rinse and repeat! It’s so simple, you can do it too. All you need is to put things into action.

Try this one out, you will enjoy it.