Live With Ani

Windows Live Writer is SO COOL!

So typically when I needed to upload pictures or include them into my blog posts I had to use several tools and then finally copy and paste them in, or upload them separately and then mess with the HTML to make it look good, not great but I settled for good, well guess what, it's way CRAZY what you can do with Windows Live Writer. When you import a picture you get a pop up window on the right side of the Windows Live Writer application which enables you to customize pictures, and it works really well, I wrote my SMX Sydney 2008 - Keynote with Marisa Mayer of Google post from earlier today with it.

So once you click on the insert a picture button as shown below, a window comes up from which you can browse to your picture location, once you do so, it takes a quick second your picture loads into Windows Live Writer. 

Then the menu below comes up to the right of your screen where you can customize your picture layout and borders on the image tab, rotation, size and text on the Advance tab,  and effects for transformation and overlay on the Effects tab as shown below. To download your own version of Windows Live Writer Beta for FREE and it's been out since Nov 2007.

BlogHer Business Conference 2008 NY

Today starts the BlogHer Business conference 2008 here in NY

It's a pretty small group of women but seems pretty influential. I started the day meeting with Nelly Yusupova.

So she's totally cool, and she comes from the former Soviet. Well technically I am too, but I was born in Iran, though I am Armenian. She is from Tajikistan, which I think is funny, when you search on http://Google.com for keyword 'Tajikistan' the second organic link is from the CIA, check this out, YES and the same thing happens for Armenia too, seems CIA is doing some SEO work too?

Anyway Nelly is super cool, she will be our moderator later today for our Microsoft panel at BlogHer, so stay tuned to find out how it goes. When I bragged about the reading I had done about Nelly, she blushed. It was pretty cool actually, love the fact I could read so much about her :) before I met her.

So here is what the description reads and you can find out more on the BlogHer Business Conference 2008 site.

"Microsoft: Microsoft has a history of sending employee bloggers out into the online community to foster better developer and user relations. Nelly Yusupova interviews three prominent Microsoft bloggers, Ani Babaian, Sara Ford and Ariel Stallings, about how their Microsoft blogging builds a bridge between the world of corporate social media engagement and their own personal technology passions."

Then I went down and stayed for part of they keynote which was BlogHer Business Day One: State of the Social Media World, check it out! Now I am back to my room to get some sleep since I got about 3 hours last night while I was working on the fun project on Facebook 'become a fan of page' for  http://wembaster.live.com and prepping for next week's SMX Sydney event 2008. So go check it out and make a me proud! I only have 2 fans so far, me and a nice person from Germany I think.

Welcome to Live With Ani

So you are probably wondering why this blog? Well, it's simple, since I become the Senior Product Manager for http://Webmaster.Live.com, I wanted to run a test case to see if I can use all the tools out there and learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) using public knowledge to rank better organically when people search for me on Search Engines like www.live.com ,www.google.com ,www.yahoo.com and www.ask.com.

So I started by registering the domain name, www.LiveWithAni.com with www.GoDaddy.com then tried several blog engines until I found TypePad. And from now on I will be posting what I learn and how that will help me rise to the top, I hope, I do promise to share the tips I learn and only use external knowledge (i.e. things you can use as well being outside of Microsoft), so here's the story...

P.S.

Incase you are wondering that is Live with Ani, so similar to www.live.com pronunciation, not Live with Ani, so to live with someone. :) Okay so I tried to be catchy, a bit hard to do when I'm geeky. You'll also hear something's I see as a tech Chick in the tech industry.