One of the things people tell me about glow blogs
is that they find them harder to use than
twitter on a mobile device. A lot of teachers post to twitter by mobile.
I want to make a quick screencast to show how easy
it can be to post to your Glow Blog from mobile.
What I’ve done to make it easier is to go to the new post page
in the past and saved as a bookmark on my home screen.
On iOS all you do is go to the new post page and
add to Home Screen. Which gives you an icon on your home screen
which points to the new post. The nice thing is that it
force you through the login page without having
to make any extra clicks. I press the icon
it takes me to RM Unify
I am quite comfortable on a personal device with a password
keeping my password in the browser.
So I click sign in
Because the links point at new post it takes me right through
I can add a title
Then to go down and click add media.
I click Select Files
Photo Library, all photos,
done, the file uploads.
I can insert it into the post.
If I wanted to I can write a wee message.
All I need to do to post, is to scroll down
and click Publish.
That is slightly more complicated than posting to twitter but it gives me
the advantage of control of the media.
I don’t relay on a 3rd party service.
And there is the post. Simple as that.