Anne Marie-Nichol’s blog post “Gadgets for Bloggers” http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/34-Review-BloggingGadgets.html, is an incredibly useful source for wiring yourself as a new media player. Being wired really is crucial now days, no matter how much you try and fight it. It’s impossible to keep up with competition and your readers if you aren’t packing the right gadgets.
I began to learn this for myself once I had to start blogging and twittering and realized that “Wow, I can’t blog, tweet, poke or otherwise do anything online, even while having a smartphone. Did I know this when I got my Samsung Blackjack? Nope. I got it with the idea in mind that I would in fact be able to peruse the internet with ease… Wrong. The length of time waiting for a page to load that in fact is never going to load properly, if at all, is enough to in fact brake that smartphone that you got to perform the function that it just failed at—and by the way, warranty is not the same as insurance and will not cover an obvious annihilation of that smartphone.
Had I read Ann Marie-Nichol’s post before purchasing that smartphone to perform the functions that it is incapable of performing, I wouldn’t have even bothered. Why? Because it doesn’t run Apps and apparently apps are a huge deal. Apps bypass the entire headache of trying to use a palm-sized phone as a fully functioning super computer—it just doesn’t work. Hence my reason for now having my fantastic little Asus, with a 10.5 inch screen and weighs all of about two and a half pounds and has been the savior to my new media exploration thus far. With a chaotic schedule, which is pretty much a certain by default in the media field, it is simply impossible to be competitive and efficient in your work without having this kind of automatic access to your readers, those you follow and to stay completely up to date with breaking news and stories. Definitely review Anne Marie-Nichol’s post for some solid quick-tips on these types of gadgets.
