Dual Blogging

Well, I figured out how to make dual blogging work with MSN Spaces and Blogger.com.

Here is what I was after (and figured out): to post to Blogger.com and show it in MSN Spaces so that the gleam shows up. For those of you regulars you know that I'm primarily using Blogger.com so I want to post there first. The steps below allow you to accomplish this.



Both sites allow you a publishing email. In either case you must specify a special word to use in your email address as a cheap security measure.

In MSN Spaces this is under Edit My Space => Settings => E-mail Publishing. Setting this up is quite easy:

1. Check the box "Turn on e-mail publishing"
2. Email address - use the email address associated with your blogger.com account
3. choose your "secret word" - the email address you publish to will be user.secret@spaces.msn.com
4. choose to publish or save as drafts - I am using drafts right now just to make sure everything is hunky dory but will likely change this to live publishing in a couple of weeks.

That's it on the MSN side. You will update and the gleam should show up on your MSN Messenger when you publish to blogger.com.

BTW, I turned off commenting as I want these as blogger.com only.

On the blogger side it's equally as easy:

1. Goto your blog
2. Click Setting => Email
3. For Blogger Send Address enter the MSN Spaces email above
4. You can select a mailto blogger address - same "secret word" security model - same rules as you can publish or save as drafts

I did do an email post the other day (geek factor - from my phone :-)) and it works like a champ. I did find I needed to re-edit the post but that may be due to the phone more than from the email. Shame on me - I should have posted this from email...

Happy Blogging!