Is Anyone Using Ecto?

I haven’t heard good things about it. There are mixed reviews. I have a friend that just couldn’t get into it. I use Blogo for my WordPress blog. I’m pretty sure it can be used with MoveableType but don’t know about the Beliefnet interface. Blogo is very simple and easy to use for straightforward posting. The drag and drop capabilities are great! They are at http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com

I have definitely heard a lot of great things about the newcomer, Blogo (http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo) . I would not go with Ecto, but I think you’d be happy with either Blogo or Mars Edit (http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/). Mars Edit has been around for quite a while and is the most popular blog editor for the Mac.

I tried ecto with my blog at blogger, and was less than thrilled. It inserted lots of extra formatting code that really made my posts look screwy. It was also less-than-intuitive when trying to insert images. If I have to think that hard to use it, then it has issues. Definitely ha potential, but for me, I’ll just post online.

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Scot McKnight is a widely-recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University (Chicago, Illinois). A popular and witty speaker, Dr. McKnight has given interviews on radios across the nation, has appeared on television, and is regularly asked to speak in local churches and educational events throughout the USA and in Denmark and South Africa. Dr. McKnight obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham (1986).

Scot McKnight is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Society for New Testament Studies. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete, 2004), which won the Christianity Today book of the year for Christian Living. Recent books include Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (Paraclete, 2005), The Story of the Christ (Baker, 2006), Praying with the Church (Paraclete, 2006), and The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus (Paraclete, 2007). A recent book, A Community called Atonement (Abingdon, 2007), has been nominated for the Grawameyer Award. He broadened his Jesus Creed project in writing a daily devotional: 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed (Paraclete, 2008). His studies in conversion were expanded with his newest book, Finding Faith, Losing Faith (Baylor, 2008), a book he co-authored with his former student Hauna Ondrey. His most recent books are The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible (Zondervan, 2008) and Fasting (Thomas Nelson, 2009).

Forthcoming books include a commentary on James (Eerdmans, 2010). He is presently researching “gospel” in the earliest Christian communities.

Other books include Who Do My Opponents Say I am? (co-edited with Joseph Modica), Jesus and His Death (Baylor, 2005), A Light among the Gentiles (Fortress, 1992), A New Vision for Israel (Eerdmans, 1999), Turning to Jesus (Westminster John Knox, 2002), Galatians (Zondervan, 1993) and 1 Peter (Zondervan, 1996), Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels (Baker, 1988), and he is a co-editor with J.B. Green and I.H. Marshall of the award-winning The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (IVP, 1992) as well as the co-editor, with J.D.G. Dunn, of The Historical Jesus in Current Study (Eisenbraun’s, 2005). He regularly contributes chapter length studies to dictionaries, encyclopedias, books and articles for magazines and online webzines. McKnight’s books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese.

McKnight’s award-winning blog, Jesus Creed, has been rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for Emerging Church and continues to increase in readership.

Scot McKnight was elected into the Hall of Honor at Cornerstone University in honor of his basketball accomplishments during his college career. He and his wife, Kristen, live in Libertyville, Illinois. They enjoy traveling, long walks, gardening, and cooking. They have two adult children, Laura (married to Mark Barringer) and Lukas (married to Annika Nelson), and one grandchild: Aksel Donovan Nelson McKnight.

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Bio: Scot McKnight

Forthcoming books include a commentary on James (Eerdmans, 2010). He is presently researching “gospel” in the earliest Christian communities.

McKnight’s award-winning blog, Jesus Creed, has been rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for Emerging Church and continues to increase in readership.

Comments read comments(5)

Henry Zonio

posted June 9, 2009 at 2:04 am

Matt

posted June 9, 2009 at 5:30 am

David

posted June 9, 2009 at 10:43 am

Doug Chaplin

posted June 9, 2009 at 5:12 pm

I use Ecto, currently on a WordPress blog, but I have used it on Blogger. AFAIK it works on MT as well. I haven’t had any problems, and certainly found it better than Blogo (I was disappointed with Blogo’s image support) or MarsEdit. I don’t think anything on the Mac is as good as Live Writer on Windows, but Ecto comes close.

Jim Martin

posted June 10, 2009 at 10:09 am

Scot,
I have been using Ecto for about a month and am very pleased. I am using it on a Mac with a WordPress blog and I have been pleased. Also, tech support was VERY quick to respond when I had difficulties the first day.

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