Posts Tagged ‘mobile blogging’

Create a Mobile Version of Your Blog

August 22nd, 2010 No Comments

mobile1 This weekend, as I was searching for a cool article to write for MakeUseOf, I came across a very cool free service that you can use to quickly offer a mobile version of your blog for absolutely free.

The trend of the Internet is quickly going mobile - everyone is checking Facebook, email and their blogs from mobile phones. The best way to access this growing audience is by offering your blog content in mobile format.

The solution I found is called WINKsite. I’ll be covering the setup and doing a review of this service on MakeUseOf in a few weeks from now, but suffice to say the service only took me about 20 minutes to set up the way that I wanted.

The cool thing about this service is that there are so many freebies. You an create all sorts of channels on your mobile site where you can offer content like surveys, forums, and even a chat room. Enable or disable advertising if you like - it’s completely up to you!

The only catch is that the free service limits you to having 5 mobile blogs. However, if you only have one blog or website that you want to “mobilize” - then this really isn’t a limited service at all. As you can see in the image here, the layout is perfect for a mobile phone. All topics are listed top to bottom as clickable links. The layout was created with every mobile user in mind - anyone from the most advanced PDA owners to mobile users who own cheapo phones with web access. Everyone can see your content when you use this service.

I highly recommend WINKsite, especially if you don’t have the skills and/or the time to code your own mobile feed. Just sign up for this service, enable it to publish the feed from your regular blog, and then you never have to think about it again - you’re automatically submitting content to your mobile site every time you click “submit” on your regular blog. Simple - just the way it should be.

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Writing on Your Blog From Your Mobile Phone

February 28th, 2010 No Comments

blogging from a mobile phoneAbout eight yours ago, I purchased my first PDA. It was a Windows Mobile phone from Cingular, before it was bought out by AT&T. Back then, I never considered that I’d be writing on my blog from a mobile phone, as I’m doing now.

That first phone was a Cingular 8125, and I bought it so that I could access Ebay while attending antique auctions. My plan was to look up the market value (average completed sale price) of an item so that I knew the max I could bid on an item without taking a loss.

Riding the Wave of a Technical Trend

The plan was clever, because at the time, noone was using mobile Internet…it had just hit the market and hadn’t quite caught on yet.

The plan wasn’t foolproof though. First, I had to figure out how to get the phone to access full browsing, not the scaled-down ‘media-net’. As insane as it sounds, most of the help desk folks didn’t know the difference. So, I was on my own to figure it out using tips fromk the gurus in the various mobile phone forums.
blogging from a mobile phone

Next, I learned that the mobile version of Facebook didn’t offer a view of completed items. Once again, I had to figure out how to trick the Ebay website into thinking I wasn’t a mobile phone. Once I accomplished that, I was in business.

Unfortunately, in full browsing mode, conducting the completed item searches on Ebay was unbearably slow. I realized that living life on the technological edge of the mobile Internet was not going to be easy.

Finally, the ease of use of mobile technology is becoming much more manageable. Everything comes pre-programmed and ready to go. Upgrading to the Motorola Droid this year was the best thing I ever did.

It helps me to blog more often than I ever could before, with a very cool mobile Wordpress app called WPtoGo. It let’s you post full blog entries, complete with formatting, pictures, links and more. It rocks, and I highly suggest it to other blogger riding this mobile tech wave into the future.

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Mobile Blogging to Boost Your Blog Ratings

April 24th, 2009 2 Comments


Whether or not you realize it yet, mobile blogging, otherwise known as “moblogging,” is rising as a very popular form of instant blogging that’s set to take the world by storm.

How to Moblog to Boost Your Blog Ratings

Mobile blogging isn’t complicated. In fact, regardless which platform you use, there’s very likely an integrated method to enable blogging to your blog from your cellphone. As you can see from my last post, which I used in this article, I’ve enabled my phone to fire off entries to BetterContent whenever I’ve come across anything exciting or newsworthy.

Just consider the possibilities:

  • Journalists can instantly publish pictures and text from breaking news events
  • Hikers and campers can keep a live online journal of their adventures
  • A whole new niche for traveling novelists
  • Private Investigators can instantly publish findings for clients in private blogs
  • Families can provide instant updates to each other on family blogs

As a writer, the potential for using mobile blogging in your online writing is unlimited. Moblogging provides creative writers with a new method to publish adventures and travels instantly, as they are taking place. Imagine reading each mobile entry from an adventurer as she hikes through Colorado. Picture viewing images and text from writers traveling throughout the Middle East and providing updates from Islamic societies directly from those villages. And even on a much smaller scale - you can publish updates to your camping blog while you’re on your camping trip, or updates to your travel blog as you are exploring on a safari.

Enabling Mobile Blogging

Google has made it as simple as possible to blog from your cellphone. Read my recently published article here, and in just moments you’ll be publishing updates from your own cellphone. You don’t need a data plan - Google allows mobile bloggers to publish blog updates with simple Instant Messages. It’s simple, and it allows you to update your blog far more frequently - keeping things fresh, and keeping your readers happy.

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