How to Use Your Smart Phone for Blogging Success
If you are a blogger and are serious about making your blog profitable, then you need to have a smart phone. Whether you fancy an iPhone or a Samsung or HTC 4G Android Phone doesn’t matter. What does, is that you have one of these mobile devices in your possession.
Blogging is all about sharing our viewpoints, knowledge, tips, etc. with the common public. We want our readers to become so ingrained in our lives that they are left wanting more and more each day. Yet the question constantly arises: How do I keep my readers entertained 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You have a normal job, a family, and a social life that all intervene with your blogging and blog star-dome. How do you manage it all? With your smart phone.
Connectivity
Blogging thrives on connectivity. People read blogs to gain insight and to connect with those who share similar interests and view points. With your smart phone, you can always stay connected and even sync your sites so that your Facebook Fans, Twitter Followers, and blog readers can all stay informed of your latest posts.
On-the-Go
Gotta make a social event, but also need to create a new post for your blog? No need to drag your laptop with you. With your smart phone you can discreetly write and post blog posts through mobile Blogger and WordPress applications allowing you to appease your readership and your social circle.
Multi-Media
Nearly every new model of smart phone comes equipped with a 8 megapixel camera and an HD camcorder. Don’t use these features solely for cute pics with friends or to film your girlfriend telling you how much she loves you. Capture small moments from your day, and then share them on your blog and Facebook page. Is your blog a foodie blog? Post pics of your meals immediately. Is your blog a “how to” blog? Post pics of people’s mishaps that clearly would have benefited from your advice or videos of you giving tutorials as you jump a friend’s car – anything to keep your readership interested.
Content
Have a great idea for a blog post? Do you need some inspiration? Turn to your phone. Using apps like EverNote you can store ideas to use later for posts, and using basic searches you can pull up words that may spark a whole slew of new ideas. No need to carry around a cumbersome notebook. With your smart phone you can store all your ideas in one easy place and then access them from your home computer later.
Just because you are a blogger doesn’t mean you have to stay tied to a computer and desk 24/7. Being a blogger is about sharing your experiences, and you have to live life in order to gain those experiences. Free yourself up to write about more interesting topics by taking your blog with you where ever you go through your smart phone. You’re sure to gain more readers, keep those you already have occupied, and enjoy a little more life yourself.
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I use the WordPress app on my iPhone to moderate comments, I find that a big help too
Thanks for the tips!
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I guess if you don’t have a smart phone like you do, you can always use a pay phone, and call a friend with a computer to moderate
(that’s a joke, hardly ever see jokes in comments. This could very well be the first-ever joke made in a comment)
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With the modern popularity and the choice of smart phones I think it is not a problem any more to do blogging with the help of a phone, but thanks for the additional ideas about using a phone for blogging
Great tips. I think smart phones are getting more and more popular these days that almost all my friends are using one. I myself sometimes moderate comments and do short posts using my smart phone.
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I still don’t own a smart phone. I really want one. I almost bought one last week, but couldn’t decide on a plan…
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I’m honestly quite surprised that anyone involved in the blogging/tech world in 2011 isn’t using a smartphone yet! (see the above comment!)
The apps on android and ios are essential for keeping up-to-date on everything happening online 24/7. I can’t even remember what it was like before the smartphone era…. try to imagine not having a cell-phone!!
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With our smart phone , we can always stay connected and even sync our sites so that we Facebook Fans, Twitter Followers, and blog readers can all stay informed of our latest posts. Nowadays its the age of mobile phones, so the busy persons always in touch with their business status on mobile net surfing when out of their seat.
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i would like to use iphone or ipad touch instead of any ordinary smart phone as these two have a lots of applications for blogger
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Thank you so much for this great tip. I am using the Nokia N8 but the wordpress application is not getting installed. Instead, it installs an installer for wordpress which is very annoying.
Please guide me.
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Well, you can manage a blog with a good qwerty featurephone also. All you need is your email configured to it. WordPress and all major blogging platforms support Email to post.
You can attach pictures also. I have written quite a few Email to Post posts on my humble blog. And, I use a Nokia E72. Smart but not considered so in today’s era of iOS and Android!
Good tips though!