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blog from anywhereOf course, this isn't something new if you have checked out Kristal Kraft's blogs before.  She has a camera phone photo blog.  I thought this was really cool.  I tried finding a post explaining this since she is the "unofficial tech support" and found nothing.  I checked Tool Boy's Blog for information since he knows all of the gadgets, but nothing.  I thought, how can you email a post to your blog?   I am new to all of this blogging stuff and my idle time is spent reading the master bloggers like Kristal Kraft, Teresa Boardman and Jeff Turner.    There are plenty others, but I just don't have enough hours in a day to read them all.  (You are probably wondering, why in the heck do you need a camera phone blog in the first place?)  Well it helps with your blogging addiction... a quick fix when you start to shake.  And also, when you're bored hanging out somewhere your wife drags you and want to be productive or atleast creative, you can tap out a quick post. 

I dug around and found out that you couldn't do email post directly with Wordpress.com but there is a work around in Flickr.  In your Flickr account (create one if you don't have one yet) Under account settings is the "email" tab.  There, Flickr will allow you to create a photo upload email address AND a blog email address.  Flickr Account pageIt will walk you through the steps to marry your blog and flickr accounts.  I created a new blog just for photos like Kristal.  So, now when I am sitting around doing nothing, I can do two things, snap off some photos and send them to my Flickr account or blog about it on my Wordpress Blog.  Either way the photo is stored on your Flickr account.  If you decide to blog about one of your pictures later, there is a "Blog This" button above each picture in Flickr.  You will be able to post directly from Flickr. 

Here again to help me with my mobile craving.  I found out that Wordpress.com has a mobile version and yes you can post from your internet capable phone.  You just have to goto http://m.wordpress.com  Flickr offers the samething... just go to http://m.flickr.com  Both fit on your screen nicely and are very functional.

Hope this helps you get your blogging fix...I am sure it will mine.

 

14 Comments on Flickr email Photo blogging

Oh great!  Another reason I need to spend some time figuring out Flickr!  :  )

05/28/2007 03:22 AM by Deborah Burns ~ Seattle Real Estate Agent (BRIO Realty)


Thanks for the advice. I was trying to figure out how Krystal was able to do the photo blog. Great tip. 

05/28/2007 03:23 AM by Sandra Williams (Rancon Real Estate)


Deborah,  :)

Sandra, You're welcome.  I am glad I was able to help.

05/28/2007 04:48 AM by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)


Bob ~ When you use my  name my feed reader will hunt you down and find you!  :) 

Glad you figured out how to make a Flickr badge...it's cool yes?

kk

p.s. so much tech support, so little time. 

05/29/2007 12:17 AM by Kristal Kraft ~Denver Real Estate~303-589-2022 (The Berkshire Group Realtors)


KK. I knew I should of misspelled your name or used your picture in place of your name...darn google alerts and readers.  :)  Was is Kristal Kraft that set of the alarms or "Unofficial Tech Support"???  ;)

Yes, this is way cool. 

Thanks for stopping by...

05/29/2007 07:48 AM by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)


Another cool tip from our wonderful AR contributors. Bookmarked and rated!

05/29/2007 08:14 PM by Mesa, Arizona Real Estate *** Teri Ellis, Broker, ABR,CRS,GRI,ePRO,MRE (Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC)


Howdy Bob

You do post some very good info and advice.

Thank you.

Have a good one

08/28/2007 04:18 PM by Dale Baker, Home Inspector- in NH & VT (Baker Home Inspections and Consulting Service)


How do you place the links on under your photo? Do you use the link section?

01/27/2008 05:00 PM by Tina Maraj Shah Fullerton Realtor (RE/MAX North Orange County)


Do you mean in my AR sidebar?  That is done in your profile settings.  Even though you can only put 200 characters in there, you can put in endless HTML.

01/27/2008 05:54 PM by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)


I'll have to work on this.Flick doesn't get rights when you upload photos do they?

01/31/2008 11:30 PM by Benjamin Clark - Exclusive BUYER'S AGENT - Salt Lake City, Utah (Homebuyer Representation, Inc.)


No you own the copyrights.  You have the ability to change them to a Creative Commons licenses. too.  

02/01/2008 04:38 PM by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)


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