Using Blog Snippets in your Community Server Blog

Since I blog a lot, and mainly focus on some specific technologies, I found myself always repeat the same links over and over in my posts.
For example:

Visual Studio "Orcas", currently in Beta1 contains some integration between Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and also some nice features of ADO.Net Entity Framework.

I used a few links in the above sentence that I used in almost every other posts as well. I always create the same links over and over again.

Apparently, Community Server has a nice solution for this, called Blog Snippets:

Snippets allow you to quickly create links in your blog posts and pages using simple replace text. Rather than typing that URL each time you want to use it you can create a snippet instead and have Community Server automatically replace the text.

To manage your blog snippets, go to your blog dashboard, and choose Manage Snippets under Manage Contents menu.

Every snippet contains 3 properties:

Link - The link to the resource / page.
Text - The text that replaces the snippet
Name - The name that you type in the blog post, which will be replaced with the Text with the provided link.

So, after creating the above snippets, I can simply write the same sentence like that

and the result will be:

Visual Studio "Orcas", currently in Beta1 contains some integration between Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and also some nice features of ADO.Net Entity Framework.

Very nice feature, and very useful. At least, for me it is...

Enjoy!