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Many times when I am away from home & the computer (it does happen), I will find something that catches my interest that I want to share with friends and followers. A lot of times, it is something to do with good marketing or bad, or “offline social media” such as a bumper sticker or sign.
While I have have the Twitter and Facebook app on my Blackberry the easiest way i have found to share photos is through a site called Tarpipe.com. If you have heard of Yahoo Pipes and how it can be used to aggregate RSS feeds, the tarpipe interface is very similar. Some people find it very confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it can actually be pretty easy.
I have setup a workflow in my Tarpipe account to accept an email with a photo attachment. basically the email I send has a headline/title for the subject line, the body contains the tags I want to use, and then finally the photo attachment.
Tarpipe then gives me a special email address to send the photos to the new workflow. I simply add that email address to my contact list, and give the name Flickr Twitter to remember it.
Now when I send an email to the new email address the following process gets kicked off.
- Tarpipe recieves the email
- The attachment gets sent to Flickr using the subject line as the title and the body text as the tags
- The attachment gets sent to 23HQ using the subject line as the title
- The attachment gets sent to Photobucket using the subject line as the title
- The attachment gets sent to Pikeo using the subject line as the title and the body text as the tags
- Next the picture url from Flickr is sent to my Bit.ly account and shortened and then forwarded to Twitter
- At Twitter, the Subject of the email is used for the status update along with the shortened URL from Bit.ly
- Next, the Status URL from Twitter is sent over to Delicious.com
- A new bookmark on delicious is created using the Twitter status URL, the subject from the email as the description and the tags from the body of the email as the tags.
- Finally at the end, seconds later, the workflow sends me an email letting me know that everything has been processed.
So now, with one photo email, I have updated 4 photo-sharing sites, Tweeted on Twitter with a shortened bit.ly tracking link back to Flickr photo and bookmarked my Twitter status update on Delicious.com.
Below are a couple screenshots of the workflow on Tarpipe described above.
Cellphone Picture Workflow - Part 1
Cellphone Photo on Tarpipe - Part 2
Since I am also using the Twitter application on my Facebook profile as well as LinkedIn, the tweets and a link to the photo shows up there as well.
Hope you found this post useful. Check out Tarpipe.com when you get a chance.
To your success,
Kevin