Have you ever seen a popular brand write a Facebook post or Tweet with an embarrassing typo? Have you maybe been 
guilty of that yourself?
If you are like me, you probably want to avoid that at all costs for your business, so I have a tool recommendation that can help called After the Deadline.
AtD is a tool that has contextual spell checking, but it also has advanced style checking and intelligent grammar checking.
It’s a free, open source tool that is available as an extension for Chrome and an add-on for Firefox. Once you have it installed in your browser you can check your spelling before posting on Facebook, writing a Tweet, commenting on a blog, or any other area you are writing text online.
Install it on your employee’s computers and know that you are helping to increase the professional image of your brand!
If you feel you don’t want to use it in your browser or you just don’t want to switch away from Internet Explorer, it is also available as a plug-in to WordPress. The WordPress plugin allows you to at least check the spelling and grammar of your blog posts.
If you’d like the AtD plug-in installed on your WordPress site, and you have a Blizzard Internet Maintenance Agreement, just send in a change request and we’ll install the plug-in for you.
I’m eager to hear with you think of this tool, so please feel free to share your comments below.
I just installed this on Chrome – it took all of 5 seconds!
After the Deadline sounds like an amazing tool. My biggest peeve in people’s copy is when a word is in the wrong context or a homonym with a different spelling is used erroneously. This tool should be able to correct wrong usage of there, their and they’re. I have also seen then and than used interchangeably, even though they neither mean the same nor sound the same. Does it help to correct the wrong use of apostrophes? Sometimes they are used on web copy when the word is a plural but doesn’t need an apostrophe.
Thanks for your comments Nick. Yes the Intelligent Grammar Checker is designed to help with words that sound similar but have different spellings. It also looks at the context of your sentence and will offer suggestions. Unfortunately it can’t catch every mistake, but I think it is a big help!