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Apr 10Mobile Blogging
My wife and I run a blog and recently noticed we were spending too much time keeping up with our database on our self hosted Wordpress account rather than spending more time writing posts. Also, we were getting tired of shelling out dough for a slow database and rather than purchasing grid hosting on a warehouse sized playground, when all we really needed was a teeter-totter and perhaps a slide or two and maybe a sandbox- we came to the conclusion we had forgotten the golden rule ‘work smarter, not harder.’We challenged ourselves to find a way to save time and money, and accomplish a little more. We kept track of what was slowing us down- day jobs, kids, paper-thin social lives, and we realized we’d save more time by switching to mobile blogging.
The first step we took was to get a free Wordpress.com account and then point our URL to the WP address. We knew we’d be limited to the ‘rules’ of a .COM account, but we didn’t need much. The next step was to condense our social networking feeds. Instead of updating one account after another we took advantage of the ‘Publicize to Twitter’ feature that comes along with a WP.com account- a publicize to Facebook option it also available, but would not work for our fan page- or is it ‘like’ page now? To get our posts-turned-tweets to pass down the pipe to our Facebook page we used ‘Selective Tweets’ an app available for Facebook. There are others, but this one seems to work just fine, as long as we include a #fb in a post’s title, all our bases are covered. The next step was to download the Wordpress mobile app on to our Internet phones. With Twitter, Facebook, and Wordpress all available on our cells we could now have a sleeping baby in one hand and thumb out a post in the other. I’m sure everyone has their own way for mobile blogging, for example sending posts by e-mail, but we wanted a little more control and this system seems to work fine for us at the moment. You can’t do everything from a phone, but we’ve gained some much needed freedom since the switch. And remember- work smarter, not harder.
