How to Post To Blogger With Your Cell phone Many websites that provide
for mobile functionality require cellphone users to have an expensive
data plan for their cellphone account. However, Google found a way to
provide all cellphone users with the ability to moblog with nothing
more than a text message. However, if you do have a data plan, Google
also offers the ability to post even more content, including images,
to your blog by simply emailing your post to a special Blogger email
account. Step 1 – Register For A Mobile Blog Setting up your phone to
moblog with Blogger is very simple. First, you just need to either
text or email a message "REGISTER" to
go@blogger.com from your phone.
In my case, I have a data plan, so I used Yahoo Go to send the email
to Blogger. Within barely thirty seconds of sending the email, I
received the following response back from Blogger. A few seconds after
receiving this response, I received a second response with my new blog
name and the claim code. This code is how you can connect this
particular device with any blog you like. Step 2 – Enable Your Mobile
Blog With The Claim Token The next step is to use the code to claim
your new blog. To do this, get on any regular computer (not your
mobile device) and visit
go.blogger.com. On the right side of the page
you'll find this Sign In area. Enter in the claim code that Blogger
just emailed to you, enter the human code below it, and then click
continue. Step 3 – Configure your existing blog as your mobile blog If
you sent the "REGISTER" command with the same email address that you
used to register existing blogs with Blogger, the system will
recognize that you have other blogs, and provide you with the option
to connect your mobile device with those blogs. The new blog assigned
to my mobile device was owlnut631, but on this screen, Blogger
recognizes that I have three other blogs and offers the option to
change where my mobile posts are published. Finally, I click "Switch
to Better Content," and I'm done with the registration and set up
process. If you don't have any other blogs, then you can keep the
default blog that Blogger created for you as your new mobile blog.
Also, if you sent the "REGISTER" command from a different email
address, you'll need to go into your mobile blog and modify the
"Mobile Devices" setup displayed on your Blogger Dashboard page. How
to Make a Mobile Blog Post Now that the mobile account is set up to
forward posts to the correct blog, all you need to do is make a post!
If you are sending Instant Messages to
go@blogger.com to create your
posts, the procedure is pretty straightforward. The MMS text you type
in becomes the post. If you send an email from your phone, you have a
little more flexibility. If you send an email from your phone to
go@blogger.com, the subject becomes the post title, the body becomes
the post itself, and you can even insert pictures as you would with a
regular blog post. To test it out, I sent the following email to
go@blogger.com. After sending off the email, within just a few seconds
I received confirmation back from the Blogger gateway that the post
was successful. I couldn't believe it posted so fast, but sure enough,
when I checked my blog I discovered the post. This is the first time
I've ever seen the capability to convert data from a mobile phone into
a web page so quickly. However, this sort of technology is booming.
Now, you can also share photos, or post to YouTube, eBay, or Facebook.
There's no end in sight to both the possibilities and the potential
for this kind of technology that integrates your mobile world with
your online world. Today, there really is no such thing as being
"offline." Do you post to your blog with your cellphone? If so, what
have been your experiences with it? Good? Bad? What about moblogging
to other blogging platforms such as WordPress? Does anyone have any
advice on how to go about it?
