Blogcast Network (TM=))

As some of you may know I use Windows Live Writer or Performancing which are sort of like desktop tools or interfaces that make it easier for me to post on my blogs on the fly. Windows Live Writer is cool, although since I upgraded my Blogger blog to the new beta version Live Writer is pooched and can’t publish to it (I’ll know in a minute if Performancing has the same issue). Any way, getting back to the relevancy of this post!

Performancing is interesting in that they provide you with an interface to post on your blog but this is more or less the gateway into the core services they offer bloggers and now advertisers. I’m still not familiar with these services but I got an email today announcing their partner offering to bloggers and advertisers.

Performancing is providing the blogging community with a tool to post, conduct analytics, and now a platform AND (blogcast?) network that will link advertisers with blogs and vica versa. I’ll set up an experiment on this and like Google Adsense on my Marketing Superhero blog I’ll keep you up to date on how this is going.

Take care and sorry for taking so long to put up a new post.

Chris.

H2H Task: Posting entire webpage

Tool Used: WordPress
Ease Factor: :-0
Efficiency Factor: :-0
Effectiveness Factor:
Grade: Passed(Barely)
Comments: This time I uploaded the JPEG image directly in WordPress and sized the image to 500×750. You can now right click on the image and select view image and then you can magify the page to actual size. The problem is that a reader my hover her mouse over the image and if she doesn’t think to right click on it she won’t be know how to see the full page view either. There has to be a better way!

Summary: WordPress worked. Performancing and LiveWriter didn’t for a image this big. While WordPress won, it wasn’t the easied thing to do. Three clicks or less is best. If LiveWriter can be enhanced to allow full in-post or one click full views it would win hands down. LiveWriter has all categories in full view so it’s easier to remember and select categories. With WordPress you’ve got to scroll within a frame. I’ll put some comparison shots up sometime so you can see what I mean. This H2H Round goes to WordPress.

H2H Task: Posting Entire Webpage

Tool Used: Performancing, Capstone Capture
Ease Factor:
Efficiency Factor:
Effectiveness Factor:
Grade: Failed
Comments: It didn’t work. Efficient and Easy  but not effective.

H2H Task: Posting entire webpage

This Lab mash up ties in these Lab Experiments: WordPress, Performancing and LiveWriter.

My task will be to upload a screen capture of my Top Posts Web Report for the past 30 days. Not only will you see the most viewed posts on my blog but you’ll also learn which method worked best uploading a fully webpage into a post.

This Head to Head to Head comparison is between Microsoft LiveWriter, Performancing and WordPress editor.

Web stats should be simple, WordPress beats Blogger

[TO VIEW FULL PAGE: Put your curser over the screenshot above>right click on your mouse>select view image. You should then be able to magnify the image to full size - I'm using Firefox.] 

I’ve spent way too much time figuring out how to use Performancing blog traffic stats reporting for my Marketing Superhero blog which uses Blogger.

WordPress includes blog and feed stats and below is a screen shot from today’s results.

We need to remember that ease of use is critical. WordPress may not report as much as I will want one day, but they’ve wet my appetite for blog analytics. It may make sense for them to offer an enhanced service for a small fee.

H2H – using Performancing to post YouTube video

Ease factor: 1(smile)

Performancing beats Windows Live Writer for this H2H task.

H2H Tally for Windows Live Writer vs. Performancing

Task #1: Post photo and text. Winner: Windows Live Writer.

Why: Easy, fast and allowed category tagging within Editor.

Head to Head (H2H) task comparison

This is an H2H between Performancing and Windows Live Writer.

Task Comparison #1-Post a photo on right hand side of post and add comments.

This post uses: Performancing.

Start time: 10:14pm

Finish time: Stopped trying at 10:17pm

Ease factor: 4(Grrrrr!)

I intended to post the same picture of Herbert Lake below but was unable to. Peformancing failed this task test.

Head to Head (H2H) task comparison

This is an H2H between Performancing and Windows Live Writer.

Task Comparison #1-Post a photo on right hand side of post and add comments.

This post uses: Windows Live Writer.

Start time: 10:06pm

Finish time: 10:09pm

Ease factor: 1 (Smile)

This photo is of Herbert lake which is in British Columbia.

Performancing vs. Windows Live Writer

I’m going to conduct a like for like task comparison using two blog publishing interfaces being tested in my Web2.0 Lab. Think of it as a head to head “battle.

Please bear in mind that my blog is more of a casual endeavor and I am no means conducting extensive product analysis and comparisons. However, it is important to realize that web2.0 adoption by us all is dependent on simple, fun and easy to use services and applications.

People don’t have time to conduct formal assessments. They want to click a button or two and voila, presto a post is made!

I’ll keep you “posted” as to how this Head to Head comparison goes.