Yesterday, while showing a professor Google Docs, I discovered a feature I hadn’t seen before: the “publish to blog” option (not unlike the same feature in Flickr and del.icio.us and, from what I now understand, was also available with Writely). I wanted to test it out, so this morning I tried pulling in the outline of a presentation I will be doing with Jerry and Andy at ACCS this Friday in order to see how clean it is — let me tell you something, it is very clean!
Here’s a quick run down of this feature:
Once you have a document you want to post to your blog, click on the Publish tab in the far right-hand side of the Google doc, and you will see the option to Publish to Blog.
You will first need to setup the details of your blog so that it can be published seamlessly. You will need to specify if you have a service hosted blog (like wordpress.com, blogger, etc.) or whether you host it yourself. After that, just put in your login and password info and specify your blogs API, which for Wordpress is your blog domain followed by xmlrpc.php, so bavatuesdays would be http://bavatuesdays.com/xmlrpc.php (keep in mind that they refer to this as the movable type api for some reason).
After that, you will have a very clean document published right into a blog post, like this one here. Amazing, and for all those interested this was tested on a WPMu blog installation and it works beautifully. I can’t think of an easier way to publish those college essays you are writing for class to avoid all those pesky printer problems 
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I didn’t know google docs did that, very cool. Makes me want to find other ways to use it.
I ran into the same problem, it is a but confusing because the settings provide you a field to title your blogID/title, but that is unrelated, and in my example the title of the post did not come through either. I should have mentioned it, but in my relative excitement I forgot. That is a fix that Google needs to work on, unless someone else had better luck.
Here is the list with all the APIs: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=afwwtkhg6gn_aj8z6fsv5kx
Unfortunately I don’t see Ning there, so you may want to contact them and ask.
http://cogdoghouse.blogspot.com/2006/01/beyond-blog-planning-demo-to-blogger.html
though did not explicitly blog about it, Publish to blog is in (I’ve used it a lot from Gliffy) and ought to be in almost any web content creation app, as the APIs are pretty well established.
I had the same problem of title not showing up. Hope this gets resolved soon….
Und mach weiter so
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