Writing online is commonplace today. Updating social media sites, blogging, or just emailing is something nearly everyone does. The seemingly limitless Internet has plenty of tools that can help those who want to take their writing to a new level. These tools can help users write documents, create blogs, or just express an idea to the world.
Writing Tools
Writing tools come in a variety of flavors. Here are a few of the top resources:
Google Docs: Probably the most famous of online word processors, Google Docs allows users to quickly create, edit, and share documents that are accessible anywhere there is an Internet connection.
Anti-Social: This tool helps the writer stay focused and write. Anti-Social is a program that allows its users to stop social media sites from interfering during writing time. This program is a browser plugin; when activated, media sites such as Facebook and Twitter will not be accessible to the user.
Grammarly: This site boasts it can correct up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor. It also has a plagiarism checker that compares the entered text with over 8 billion pages over the Internet.
Blogging
Blogging started as a fun way for people to create a place on the web where they could show off pictures of the family or talk about their favorite hobbies. Now, it is a way for companies, famous cooks, freelance journalists, or anyone else to create a site that can generate an income.
WordPress: The number one blog-creation tool, WordPress is not as easy as some other site-creation services, but it offers more flexibility and allows the developers to code their sites for a unique experience.
TrapIt: This tool allows bloggers to trap topics from the web. It searches the web automatically and sends data back to the blogger from other blogs and sites.
Diigo: Diigo allows the blogger to store bits of information for later use. Other features include the ability to embed notes to the stored data. This tool supports mobile devices.
Microblogging
Most people have microblogged without even realizing it. Twitter and Facebook are essentially microblogging sites. A microblog is a place where the user can create small posts to share to the community.
FriendFeed: So, you have found that Twitter and Facebook are not enough for you. Now there is FriendFeed. FriendFeed can link to both Twitter and Facebook, and it has its own social network programmed in. FriendFeed is designed to give friends and families an easy way to connect in real time. But wasn’t that what Facebook and Twitter started out as?
SproutSocial: SproutSocial is created to manage a user’s or business’s Twitter account. It helps to monitor messages, it creates group reports, and it can take a single post and submit it to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Writing online through social media is here to stay. It is no longer a question of which site to log into, but how many sites and what the best way is to gather information. The Internet continues to prove that information is power. Know your tools.
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