Martin Brossman created a short tutorial on how to do this that you will find here.  You don’t have to have a Google Plus account to make it work.  It simply makes it easier if you have Google Plus albums already in place.

My short advice is to find a good photography phone app that will allow you to post to multiple platforms from your phone.  I like Camera Awesome which I am not sure works with Android just yet.  However, there are plenty of photo apps these days, just make sure they allow you to share to more than just Facebook.

Another recommendation that I gave today was taking images of local businesses and places and posting the image on their Google Maps page.  The image below is a panorama that I did at Joyner Park in Wake Forest.  The nice thing is that on the right side, it shows my Google Plus information and even has a link to my website ( see screen shot below ).

The key to anything new you do is to get started doing it. I suggest that you start with things you can do in less than 10 minutes at the time and start doing a few of them. Here are a few 10 minute or less steps.

1) Post an image or video to your Facebook business page then share it on your personal Facebook page which will bring attention back to the business page.

2) Take a picture with your phone of a business or location (like a park), email the picture to yourself from your phone and upload it from your laptop or desktop to the Google maps page of the business or location. Tip: Be sure to rename the file !!! Example: Joyner Park in Wake Forest NC Image by David Williams

3) Add the BLOGGER App to your phone.  Write a 3 sentence blog post from your phone and post an image in the blog post.  Once you hit publish on Blogger, it automatically opens Google Plus.  Then, when it takes you back to your Blogger account, you can TWEET the post out on Twitter.  It’s so easy and can be done in under 10 minutes.

No matter how busy you are, you can incorporate the 3 tasks above that take under 10 minutes each to do in your weekly routine while you are on the go.

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This post is part my ongoing personal learning/experimenting and teaching others how to be an on the go photo/video journalist using a cell phone, apps, laptop and desktop. You can use this for your own business on a regular basis.  For example, I took the images in this post with my iPhone and used my Camera Awesome App to edit the images which I posted in several places on the web and emailed myself to be able to do even more with the images. I will use multiple resources on the web to point back to this blog post. If you’d like to learn more, please feel free to come hear me speak at Triangle Lunch Talks on Thursday, June 20th. It’s FREE! If the date has already slipped by when you read this, please contact me on the web to find out about other upcoming events some of which may be free or paid.

The images below were taken with my iPhone using the Camera Awesome App.

Alice Osborn, M.A. is the author of three books of poetry, After the Steaming Stops (Main Street Rag, 2012), Unfinished Projects (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006) and is the editor of the anthology, Tattoos (Main Street Rag, 2012). She’s working on her next poetry book, Heroes without Capes. Her past educational and work experience is unusually varied and now it feeds her strengths as an editor for hire who takes good writers and turns them into great authors. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has taught classes and writing workshops to hundreds of aspiring authors of nearly all ages from 9 to 90, both in person and online. Her pieces have appeared in the News and Observer, The Broad River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings Review and in numerous journals and anthologies. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Writers’ Network and performs her poetry to captivated audiences throughout the region. Alice lives in Raleigh with her husband and two children. Visit her website at www.aliceosborn.com to sign up for her free monthly newsletter which is bursting with workshop and contest opportunities for writers.

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By using my iPhone and Camera Awesome, I decided to be a photojournalist while Bill spoke about “The Anatomy of a Referral.” The app is by SmugMug and allows me to post to multiple social and/or photo sites: SmugMug, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, YouTube and YES Instagram. I also posted to Google Plus and since Pinterest slipped my mind, I used my desktop to post to Pinterest ( see it here ).

One key thing that I did while posting to all these places was to use a  TITLE.  In most cases, I did something like “Triangle Lunch Talks: Bill Davis of Team Nimbus.” By doing this, I not only have a chance of the image coming up for Bill Davis and Team Nimbus, but it is tied to Triangle Lunch Talks as well. Remember, I was able to do all of this from my phone, on the front row as Bill was speaking. I was there anyway, so I didn’t have to sit down in front of my desktop later.

Take Away: Q: What is the best camera to have? A: The one you have with you. Most of the time the camera you will have with you will be your phone, so have an app or multiple apps on your phone in order to be able to do something like I did above. So what do I get from all of this? I am glad that you asked. This image is posted on all my accounts which ties it back to me when it is found. This becomes a win-win for all parties: Bill Davis, Team Nimbus, Triangle Lunch Talks and David Williams

The video below is one that I shot of Bill Davis in Studio with my professional equipment:

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