Sometimes, inspiration hits when you’re away from your desk. However, you don’t have to miss out on blogging about it!

With the new DNN Blog Module (version 03.05.00) and it’s support for the metaweblog API, there are a variety of tools and technologies that make it easier to blog. One in particular is the ability to blog via email with a service like Blogmailr (www.blogmailr.com).

Setting this service up is free and quick. Simply create an account at www.blogmailr.com. Once completed, log in and visit the “My blogmailr” section. Once there, click on “Add New Blog”. You’ll be asked for your blog URL, your username, and password. Simply copy and paste the URL for your new DNN blog in the URL field and use your DNN blog account credentials. Click “Find my Blog”. Blogmailr then autodiscovers everything you need (similar to setting up Windows Live Writer) via the metaweblog API.  

Once it finds everything it needs, you’ll be provided with your @blogmailr.com email address. This is the unique alias to which you’ll send email that is then in turn posted to your blog. Be sure to add this to your address book on your PDA or whichever device you’ll be using to blog from.

You’re almost finished. There is one more, very important step. To help ensure that others are not able to post to your alias, you need to register the valid “from” email addresses for your blogging. Under the “Valid Senders”, simply add the account(s) you’ll be sending your blog post(s) from. You can add multiple from addresses, one per line, and then simply select “Save Senders”.

At this point – you’re ready to blog from email. Create a new email message, enter the subject (this will be your blog title), and complete the body of your message. Click send and within a fairly short period of time, your post will appear on your DNN blog.

For serious bloggers, you may also want to include some saved text on your PDA that includes Technorati tag script, etc.

“Credit for this blog post goes to Jeff Browning. Jeff works for F5 and is co-creator of http://devcentral.f5.com, a large technical community site running on DotnetNuke. He also runs a blog called www.charterisland.com. Check them out!”