8 PR moblog hacks - two more needed

All lists are since Moses came down the mountain supposed to consist of 10 statements/rules/tips/bulletpoints (today, 10 powerpointslides)!

Well, from PRblogger comes a list of 8 moblog PR hacks.

So we need two more.

Any ideas?

Via Open

Category: moblogging
Category: PR
Category: branding

The lack of moblogging ladies

Read an article about how moblog.co.uk have only about 30 percent females among their bloggers.
I am sad to report the same from mobilblogg.net

It should be 50/50, and why it is not, I dont know. Is it because moblogging is considered to be tekkie, nerdie and by streotyping then a male thing? Possibly.

But if we stereotype the other way and claim that women are better at communicating, more willing to chatter and share their daily life with one another (the male stereotype being the strong silent man) then there should be more female bloggers.

Shouldnt it?

Anyways, - girls- if you need help with this "moblogging thing" then register at a moblogservice, we will be more than happy to help you get started.

Source: Shiny shiny

Moblog for small business

Blogging is recognized as a smart sollution for small size companies. No big investement is demanded to get started, and all you need to do is write about what you love most- your company!

With moblogging you also get the possibility to post when not at your office/computer. At mobilblogg.net we have 2 bands, one tshirt company and one local shoe shop moblogging. None of these are big enough to have a PR agency, none of them does any other promotion exept from their regular websites.

If you run a company and are new to moblogging, you can
read this article at Verusnova (its a series of articles, about blogging for companies in general.

Category: moblogging
Category: PR

Musical moblog

What is it with moblogs and musicians? The veronicas are the fourth band moblogging I have heard of. Smart PR!

Via Steve Rubel

Category: moblogging
Category: PR

Open-for-all-moblogs v.s. open-for-some-moblogs

Alfie Dennen, of moblog.co.uk got a mail from Ewan MacLeod asking what Alfies opinion about 3's"myGallery" is.

Alfie has a lot to say, but not many nice things:

"Even reading the text in the intro you know the problem? It's marketing speak, plain and simple, rather than letting the product speak for itself by just *being there*, being open.

You cant even go in and have a poke around unless you join! The other really crazy thing, a lesson yet to be learned by MNO's I think, is that you should not be charging your users over and above the already steep messaging odds just to share their content online.

3 mygallery charges 3 TIMES the standard messaging rate! And even then only gives you 10mb free storage.

My final gripe, and boy I do seem to love to gripe :) is; what does one 3 user have in common with another? What is their communal bond? Bugger all, MNO's should build these things and keep them open IMO, and in that way reach other networks users and have a better chance of tempting them over to their network.

By keeping it open and letting it grow, without overcharging users, and letting a community grow organically, they will end up with something of real value, a community, rather than trying to derive its' value from direct and immediate revenue. It's the old "the power of a network derives from it's nodes" net adage."


Read the original post at smstextnews.com


I have no objections to what Alfie says, but still feel I should add something in defense of 3, and that is that Alfie argues from a community perspective that 3 might not have. Maybe 3 is good enough for "online photo albums"? (well, no it isn't, its too pricy)

The dilemma for 3, and all other carriers, or phone manufacturers such as Nokia, is that company policies hinder them from developing something like an "open for all moblog". Instead, they are constrained to build for their customers only.

The plan is to tie their customers closer to them, maybe even making them sort of "addictives" of their services. But it's bound to fail and will only create badwill.

Would you like to loose your moblog just because you switched operator? Because you bought a new phone? No. So you don't even start moblogging under such premises, do you? Nope, you dont. So all money spent by 3 is lost (but they are getting it back from traffic created by operator independent moblog outfits, like mobilblogg.net :-)

Category: moblogging
Category: mygallery

Who uses the cameraphone - and for what reason

"less than a third of camera phone owners share picture messages with friends."

Hmm.. you wonder why? Well, so do I. The quote comes from a survey done by In Stat

"People who haven't yet purchased camera phones are very enthusiastic about all the uses for their images," said David Chamberlain, In-Stat analyst. "However, once they start using their new phones, they are turned off by perceived poor picture quality, slow network speeds, and the difficulty of creating and sending pictures. Our survey found that very few pictures actually make their way out of the handset to be shared with others."

Read more at 160 characters

Anyways, I personally think that a broad majority of the potential users (the two thirds) simply does not know how to share, that is- how to register at a moblog service, or that moblogs even exists. - "the difficulty of creating and sending pictures." (And of course, some might just not be interested in sharing?)

We do our best to keep it simple at mobilblogg.net an to please as many as possible. That includes "not sharing", all mobloggers have the option to keep the pictures they send in for themselves by using the passwordprotection and privacy features we have.

Posts can be public, for registered moblogers only, for registered mobloggers you have marked as friends only, or only for you.

Public post can be posted on the frontpage, among the "latest posts" for others to comment, or only published at your personal page - your moblog.

That way, all three thirds should be pleased :-)

Category: moblogging
Category: mms

Moblogging with Metro PCS in USA

We now know we support moblogging via MMS with Metro PCS in USA.

So, all you PCS users, please feel free to moblog at mobilblogg.net

Category: moblogging
Category: mms

Moblogging with Cingular from the US

Now we also know that you can moblog with Cingular USA. (we already knew we supported Verizon for moblogging with MMS.)
Category: moblogging
Category: mms
Category: cingular

Moblogging with vodafone from New Zealand.

All of the mobloggers at mobilblogg.net take their phone with them when they go travelling. Most of them moblog from their journeys. Some of them uses this instead of sending postcards.

Again, most of them tries to find a browser when travelling, to see whats going on back home, checking the recent moblogging done by their friends.

When our user BOS went travelling, he did all of this, snapping away pictures to his moblog from the northen island to the southern and back again.

And on the way we learned that you can use vodafone for moblogging from New Zealand

Category: moblogging
Category: mms
Category: new zealand
Category: vodafone