Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

I just want share few tips with the DotNetShoutout users, maybe you have already discovered it, if you have not then it might be handy.

Feed

If you subscribe to our published or upcoming feed, you will notice that clicking on the link does not take you back to DotNetShoutout story page, instead it will take you directly to the original Story page, saving you from one unnecessary click.

With the story text you will also find the number of shout and a small page preview, if you want to shout the story click the shout it counter, it will take you to the DotNetShoutout page. And by the way you can subscribe to our Upcoming feed without worrying about spam, our system is quite equipped fighting with those spammers.

Sharing

Like the feed when you share a story, it will share the original url instead of the DotNetShoutout url. Currently we are only supporting MSDN Social(though I am not sure how many people are using it), delicious, facebook and twitter and for twitter we are even shrinking the original url to fit in 140 characters.

And in Twitter:

Shout it Badge

If you are blogging from Live write and putting the Shout it badge manually, please stop. We do a have plug-in for the latest Live Writer which autmattically inserts the counter in the footer of your post. Just visit the release section of codeplex and download the LiveWriterBinary.zip, it is just a simple dll (you can also get the source code version from the release page) which you have to copy in the plug-in folder of Live Writer (e.g . C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\Plugins). Once you copied the dll, you find the plug-in name in Live Writer menu –> Tool->Options->Plug-ins, like the following:

Make sure it is enabled, you can also change the default colors from the options depending upon your blog theme. Now write your post and click publish, live writer might ask you do you want to execute this plug-in, click yes. The counter will appear at the bottom of your post like this post.

Enjoy!!!