Mobile Photoblogging with Email Posting!

Here is a quick how to I wrote up on how to set up email posting and use it to go photoblogging from your phone.

Step one - Enable email posting

Go to your Dashboard, then to Settings, then Email. On this page you need to pick a secret word which will make up part of the Blogger email address. Make this good, and don't worry about complicated, you can lock it up in your address book later. Also, I recommend selecting immediate posting because its not really mobile blogging if you have to use the computer to make it show up. If you're worried about ne'er-do-wells hijacking your blog then your secret word isn't good enough :) If you are really worried put your phones primary email (usually its your phone number @ carrier address, like mine is @vtext.com for Verizon) in the upper box and you'll get a confirmation of every post made this way.

Step two - Save the secret address to your phones contacts

Since this address is so complicated and secretive, you might as well save it to your phones contact list! Do this however you do it...I hope you know your own phone by now :)

Step three - Send post by MMS message

Using your phones MMS feature is the best way in my mind to post, even if you don't attach a photo, since you still get subject and body fields separate, which is important because the subject field is the title of the post and the body is the contents. Attach a photo if you want, it will appear at the beginning of your post before all the writing, after the title. Make sure to tail the body with #end so none of the usual provider advertising gets posted. (You know, this message was sent using Verizon blah blah). Also if you have an email capable phone (Palm Treo, BlackBerry, etc) feel free to just use email, as this usually lets you attach larger/more images to a post! Don't forget to use #end though!

Step four - Enjoy!

Now you can mobile photoblog to your journal at no added cost, enjoy! And be sure to remember to keep the address safe!