Ten Minutes With BlogSigs May 5, 2007

What is it: BlogSigs is software that inserts a link to your latest blog post (or any blog post) into your email signature.

Executive summary: Good way to publicise your blog without being too in-your-face, although some might disagree. Great that it works with clients and webmail, and Mac and Windows. Needs more work before it’s really roadworthy.

My tenminut.es:  Downloading the software (Windows and Macs) and installation is easy; you have to choose your existing Outlook signature and enter your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail account and password:

Worked smoothly for Outlook: Add the signature that you chose in the settings window above and it will appear below the existing signature text next time you write an email:

You can tweak the words although you can’t, for now, remove the Blogsigs reference and link.

Gripes: I didn’t find the Gmail part of things so straightforward — the Blogsigs bit erased my existing signature rather than append to it. When I went back to Outlook I found that my original signature had also been deleted, and when I tried to make a new one encountered an error message after another:

These things were eventually resolved, but I’d prefer not to have had to.

Verdict: Neat idea, check back in a few more weeks.

Score: 6 out of 10

Tip of the hat to: Lifehacker