cheap and easy photo blogging
This week I’ve been testing an easy method for the nearly instant blogging of digital photos, using free tools and services. As an experiment (and for the love of Mr. Meckels), I’ve set up: (1) A mobile phone to send digital photos directly to my Flickr account. (2) In turn, those photos are automatically imported into a simple photo blog created on Tumblr. (3) Likewise, those Flickr photos are automatically imported into the Notes, and the Tumblr posts are automatically announced on the Wall, of Mr. Meckels’ Facebook page. (4) As new photos post to the photo blog, Tumblr automatically tweets each one on Mr. Meckel’s Twitter account.
Because I’m doing this to test multiple services and feeds, the above methodology is more complex that most people or businesses need. Nonetheless, now that it is set-up, all I have to do is snap a photo, then send it from my phone (as an MMS or email message) to the unique address Flickr gave me. The Subject of the picture message will become the photo’s title, while the Text becomes its caption. Once I press [Send] on my phone, everything else happens automatically. There’s a time delay (varying from minutes to hours), as the various services “talk” to each other and feed (pass along) the photo. End result? The new photo is automatically posted to each of these web pages, with no further effort on my part.
This is moderately geeky and somewhat time consuming to set up. But once configured, it’s simple — and wonderfully fast — to snap and spontaneously share photos, from wherever you are. <begin pitch> This service is included in my Synchronized Social Media Setup package deals. (Please contact me, if that’s something you’d like to discuss.) <end pitch> But each of these services has reasonably clear instructions to help you figure out how to do this yourself.
