Whether you are new to blogging or you have been around the blog for a while (pun intended), there are some cool tools you can use to manage your posts and pages. This article looks at how remove the management of your blog posts from the typically unremarkable posting tools contained within the various blog applications. And use Windows Live Writer to manage your posts.

Google and Microsoft, as well as other vendors have free word processing, or writer tools that you can easily use to make blog writing fun and easy. These tools automatically connect to your blogs API. Didn't know your blog had an API? Well it probably does. Don't know what an API is? Find out here.

Using an API, you can view, edit and save your existing posts in the blog writer tool. You can also create sparkling new posts in the writer and publish it directly to your blog. The best blog writer tools should include some basic features like post management, automatic publish dates, font formatting and spell checker and Windows Live Writer has them all.

Plus in Windows Live Writer you can see your blog categories, add post keywords, slugs, enter excerpts and add tags. If you want to queue articles for later release you can choose a future publish date from Windows Live Writer also.

You can also extend Windows Live Writer with plug-ins to do things like add an image from Flickr.

One feature the Windows Live Writer does not have is the ability to share posts with other people for collaboration, review and edit. In Google Docs for instance a user can create a document then share with anyone who has an email address. If you want to allow the person to edit your document then just give them edit permissions. Such a feature would be a great addition to Windows Live Writer.

You can download Windows Live Writer or WLW here.