The Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE) is now offered on sharepoint.microsoft.com for Microsoft employees to blog about SharePoint on SharePoint using the EBE. So this means the home for my blog will no longer be at WordPress: http://yvonneharryman.wordpress.com/, instead will be here!
Key features of the EBE over the WSS blog site are:
· Theming
o Modular Theme Framework (MTF) - no need to wrestle with the default blog master page - start from the HTML you want and simply insert the blog content via XSL.
o Friendly URL's - blog post URL's that look like /archive/2007/08/25/sharepoint-chart-tool.aspx instead of /Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=37
o 5 very cool themes to use as-is
· Linkbacks (aka Trackbacks)
o Send linkbacks to other blog posts you are linking to in your EBE blog post (these show up as trackbacks on the other blog)
o Receive linkbacks from other blogs who are posting about your blog post (these show up as trackbacks on your EBE blog)
· Spam control
o Akismet integration to detect comment spam
o CAPTCHA to help block comment spam at the source
o Option to automatically delete spam to recycle bin
o Option to automatically approve spam-free comments
· RSS
o Custom RSS link (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/myblog)
o Post trimming (only a portion of post is sent via RSS)
o Specify RSS feed item count
o Category specific feeds (e.g. /rss.xml?cat=coolstuff)
o Validates W3C: This is the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds.
· Miscellaneous
o Securing of system pages (e.g. so anonymous users can't browse your lists and libraries using SharePoint UI)
o Metaweblog API to support Windows Live Writer and migration tools.
o Client Date/Time - displays date/time in time zone of user instead of server
New features for the 2.5 release which is coming soon include:
· Issue Fixes
· Ability to export post to PDF
· Localization (FR & ES)
· Ability to theme wiki pages
· Ability to show your Tweets in a web part on the home page
· Ability to theme Wiki pages
· Technoroti Tags