2 Easy Ways of Mobile Blogging in the New Digital Continent

Introduction

With the increase in the production of camera-equipped mobile phones and other handheld devices connected to the internet, blogging as a traditional form of writing content on the Web, is now an activity continued through mobile devices. Mobile blogging, or "moblog", as some writers would term the activity, is possible through 2 easy means: starting your own mobile blog or sending a blog post via e-mail to an existing blog.

To save on money, just select the means which can provide you the least cost in posting to your blog.

Starting a mobile blog

According to Blogger.com, the following is needed to start your mobile blog:

• Text REGISTER to BLOGGR (256447) to create your mobile blog. Your message will be uploaded to that blog right away. Blogger.com will message you back with the address, (so you can visit your new blog on the web) and a token (so you can claim your blog and access it from your account)
• If you already have a Blogger account and want the posts to go to your existing blog, you can log in to go.blogger.com and enter the token Blogger sent to your phone. You now have the option to claim your new mobile blog and merge it with your existing blog

Posting to your blog through e-mail

Without the requirements given above, you can also post to an existing blog via e-mail. When you access the dashboard of your Blogger.com account, click on the "Settings" link of your blog, then point your mouse to the "Email & Mobile" tab and click it. In the Email section, there is a box wherein you can place your "secret word" to complete the e-mail address that you will use to send your post via e-mail. After you have completed this e-mail address, save the changes and take note of it. Then place this e-mail address as one of your e-mail contacts in Gmail or your other e-mail service. If you want to create a short post to this blog from your camera-equipped mobile phone or handheld device, you just write your content, and then send it to your blog using this special Blogger.com e-mail address that you created.

The advantage of mobile blogging

Mobile blogging is especially suited for people who are always "on the go". With camera-equipped phones, people can e-mail/MMS or SMS photos and video which can appear as entries in the blog. Mobile blogging is especially popular among those who tour or travel a lot. While on a trip, they can update their family members or friends, with messages or photos of where they are, and what they are currently busying themselves with. For the purposes of small Catholic web site development, mobile blogging can be very useful when the web developer is away from his desktop PC, and needs to upload content which would be very useful for the progress of his web development work. It can also update other members of his network of Catholic bloggers with content that can give real-time ideas to use for their own blogging or web site development.

Conclusion

Even with the difficulties of the times, it is still possible to improve on web development work. Just being aware of what is new and updating ourselves regularly on the news, we will keep informed of the many ways we can move forward in small Catholic web site development. The use of new and uptodate technology need not entail a very big expense on our part. Just finding means and ways to use this technology in cost-efficient methods will be of very good help to the proclamation of the gospel on the Net and the promotion of a culture of respect, peace and goodwill.

Other link resources

• Wikipedia.org's definition of Mobile blogging

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Dennis Emmanuel Cabrera
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