Learning with the Fang

test work flow

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- – - Everything above this line (incl Photo) automatically created by sending a photo via e/mail from my phone to flickr – - -

While at lunch today I saw an ad promoting Internode free public WiFi where I was eating. I wondered if that would enable me to send a photo from my mobile phone (old Nokia N80 with WiFi) via e/mail to flickr’s built in ‘e/mail to blog’ service for free. Turns out that it did and this would be an excellent ‘work flow’ for sending stories on how people stay connected to sastories.com.

The only tricky part was ‘logging on’ (as guest) to the internode citylan hotspot. This required the pre-meditated effort of starting the web browser on my phone, choosing any random website, then clicking on the ‘guest’ button when the internode citylan hotspot page loaded automatically.

Once that was done, I snapped a pic of the messy person’s lunch (opposite me at table), chose send via e/mail and selected the address for my flickr account ‘email to blog’ service. When the phone asked how I wanted to connect to the internet, I chose the ‘internode’ connection created in the step above.

So, I hear you ask – ‘how do I configure flickr to post to my blog via e/mail’ ?

The steps are these:

1. Login to your flickr account
2. Navigate to your account -> extending flickr to configure your blog
3. Follow the bouncing ball to configure your blog
4. Navigate to your account -> e/mail to create the magic e/mail addresses for posting to flickr
5. Add the address for ‘Your blog upload email’ to your phone’s addressbook

That’s it.

Fang – Mike Seyfang