Apparently at some point in the last 24 hours, Blogger reviewed my site and made the decision that it wasn't a spam risk and unblocked my ability to post via an offline client.  The last posts that I pushed through using Qumana published seamlessly.  They had indicated that they would email me with a decision--no email, but who cares.  I don't suppose I need MORE mail in any of my email boxes.

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Qumana is a online/offline blogging tool that allows you to post to multiple blogs in one fell swoop.  Given that I've been spending quite a bit of time since switching to Drupal crossposting to my old blogging site, http://imagespace.blogspot.com, I thought I would try this tool out.  Add to that, that it is common for me to write when I have no Internet access.  Rather than compose in Word and then cut and paste, this may end up being a better way for me to blog.

It includes a text editor, that looks an awful lot like TinyMCE.  It supports a ton of different blogging environments as well.

Tonight I decided to set up ImageSpace with TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a platform independent Text Editor and HTML editor. It allows you to cut and paste from most other word processing programs and maintain formatting. Best of all, it is open source. While you might not see anything significantly different on this site, my job of formatting text has become significantly simpler.

How can this kind of technology help Arts Non-Profits? It goes back to the idea that open source, when used wisely, can significantly reduce the time and effort an agency/organization has to put into publishing online. Once the templates are setup, it becomes very simple for an arts administrator with very little experience on the Web to publish, edit, and maintain content. When the WYSIWYG IS the content management tool it reduces the cost and time one needs to take to publish.

So what kinds of tools can you expect from TinyMCE? Check it out...