I have been beating myself up trying to figure out how to upload a photo from my mobile phone to my Serif Group facebook page. Although I haven’t mastered it completely, I have figured out how to do it.
All you need is a WordPress blog and WordPress for iPhone. The WordPress for iPhone app allows you to post blog posts as well as mobile photos and allows you to post them to your blog. Your Facebook for business page allows you to pull in RSS feeds of your WordPress blog onto your site and it will automatically pull into the Notes section of your business page.
Go to edit setting in your business page and enable Notes to publish to streams in the application settings of the Notes application. Then choose Edit under the same Notes application and go to the right sidebar and edit your import settings. You will see the screen below.
Then enter your blog’s feed url and you’re there. As you can tell from my last post, I still haven’t perfected it. It looks you can only upload vertical photos (there isn’t a rotate image preference on the WordPress for iPhone app).
I would also like to be able to have the photo appear in the stream, but I haven’t found any way to do this. I look forward to your suggestions in the comments section if you have an easier way.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Or… you can set up a Posterous account and tweak your settings to update your blog (and Facebook and Twitter and more, and more). Email blog@posterous.com with the image as an attachment. Your blog site will be updated and the rss feed into notes. Example: http://bitsoforange.com/economic-recovery-or-re...
August 29th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Or… you can set up a Posterous account and tweak your settings to update your blog (and Facebook and Twitter and more, and more). Email blog@posterous.com with the image as an attachment. Your blog site will be updated and the rss feed into notes. Example: http://bitsoforange.com/economic-recovery-or-re...
August 29th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I recently severed my blog's rss connection with Facebook. The reason I did it was because Facebook imports all your content into their site so when some one clicks on the note it doesn't take you to the original website, it keeps you on Facebook. After some thought I realize that it was diverting traffic away from my blog.
Now I post the links manually and link my facebook page with Twitter. So now when I post a link on Facebook it drives traffic to my site and updates Twitter at the same time.
I know this is unrelated to your post but it might be a better way to increase traffic if you're uploading a bunch of photos.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I recently severed my blog's rss connection with Facebook. The reason I did it was because Facebook imports all your content into their site so when some one clicks on the note it doesn't take you to the original website, it keeps you on Facebook. After some thought I realize that it was diverting traffic away from my blog.
Now I post the links manually and link my facebook page with Twitter. So now when I post a link on Facebook it drives traffic to my site and updates Twitter at the same time.
I know this is unrelated to your post but it might be a better way to increase traffic if you're uploading a bunch of photos.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Kathy,
I'm going to investigate posterous more, thanks for the comment. Jason Falls said he really likes posterous, although WordPress has a lot to offer, it will have to be really good for me to consider switching.
Grant,
Great point. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned it. Unless I can find another way to upload mobile photos on the go, I may just set up another WordPress blog strictly for the purpose of uploading photos. I could keep this blog hidden, but just use it as a RSS feed for my facebook page.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Kathy,
I'm going to investigate posterous more, thanks for the comment. Jason Falls said he really likes posterous, although WordPress has a lot to offer, it will have to be really good for me to consider switching.
Grant,
Great point. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned it. Unless I can find another way to upload mobile photos on the go, I may just set up another WordPress blog strictly for the purpose of uploading photos. I could keep this blog hidden, but just use it as a RSS feed for my facebook page.
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