Blogging can be a pain sometimes and finding the inspiration for your blog can be difficult. Luckily Plinky – part of the vast stable of web service offerings by Automattic -has arrived and is not to be overlooked.
Plinky is a blogging prompt tool, aimed at getting bloggers’ creative juices flowing by giving a short prompt in the form of a sentence, a question or a challenge. You then answer the prompt and also have the capability to add photos or other media, depending on the prompt of the day.
Once you’re done and satisfied you can share your answers on Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
Interested? Let’s take a look at Today’s Prompt
Twittery
Plinky is a bit like twitter, or other similar social networking sites in that you create a profile for yourself, you can follow others and read their posts as they go live, or comment on them.
If that’s not enough, you can even suggest a prompt yourself to the community.
Supported Services
Plinky provides support and integration with a wide variety of social media platforms making it easy to publish your prompt answer to the rest of the world.
The Supported Services include :
- Blogger
- Live journal
- Typepad
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
- Xanga
- YOUR BLOG – It provides the embed code to publish your answers straight to your blog!!!!
The Real Prize
But that’s not all, and hardly the feature that makes it fantastic. Plinky also has a picture finder, that finds pictures to accompany your post based on a keyword that you type in. It gives you a few options, and it’s as simple as selecting the image and posting your answer
-If this sevice (a Keyword Picture finder) where available for use off the Plinky platform and utilizing more creative commons databases than just flickr…well, you can imagine what a prize that would be for bloggers
All in all, Plinky is a very useful tool to any blogger and a service that has amazing potential for growth. Keep an eye on this one!
