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Embedding texts to your website

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Easily sharing your text with others has been raised to a whole new level. As from now you can embed a text to your own website. This is really some nice variation of your data belongs to you.

So how does it work?
Behind the menu item “Share” you find the embed code. Insert it to your latest blog post or create a new page on your site. Done.

At the moment, the embedded text shows the first 40 lines of the discussion and no comments. There’s a link to the discussion, so anyone interested in cowriting can do so with just one click (given the discussion is not password-protected).

In what kind of scenario can embedding be useful?
Some of you use doingText as a preparation tool for later blog posts. Instead of copying the text, you can now simply insert the code.
Another scenario would be planning an event (a workshop or alike) with some folks, you surely want to promote this on your blog by creating a new page there. Your visitors will then always get the latest status of the planning process.
Or, you have a discussion outlining a paper or experiment or alike for university. You could then not only write about the idea on your website and set a link to the discussion, but also bring an illustration of the developing process.

For the future we’re already thinking about offering a scaled embed code. A small version could be used for sidebars and would involve the first 5 lines. At the other end of the scale embedding the whole text would be surely great for publishing writing results on your website.

Have fun exploring.