July 18, 2006

The Winger Dance Blog

Kristin Sloan is doing an excellent job expanding her dance blog, The Winger - both in terms of content and contributors.

Kristin and I Skyped last week and she gave me an update about her blog.

From the time she started her blog, Kristin made extensive use of pictures that she posted via her cell phone. To post digital snapshots with a mobile phone, you need 1) a blog, of course, 2) a cell phone that has a built-in camera and 3) an account with photo-hosting site Flickr (or another online application that will automatically send pictures to your blog.)

So, once you take pictures with your phone, you send any pictures that you want to post to your blog to a Flickr email address. Then you can configure Flickr to automatically send the picture as a post to your blog. Flickr supports most blog software programs - Kristin uses Movabletype.

Samsung just gave Kristin a video camera. So soon Kristin will be uploading video clips to her blog.

I didn't realize that The Winger also has a message board, The Winger Board, an online community where users can post their questions and thoughts about different aspects of dance.

In terms of contributors, you'll see on the left-hand navigation bar that The Winger now features a number of dance bloggers who dance with the New York City Ballet, The American Ballet Theater, Amy Mashall Dance Company and Pacific Northwest Ballet.

It would be nice to see more dancers blogging as well as adding multimedia content to their blogs. Most cell phones sold today have built-in cameras and there's really no additional cost to posting pictures to your website. And in the case of video, camcorders are fairly inexpensive and there's easy to use software to edit and upload your videos.

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