This is an emerging trend in the field of news and content generation. Hence, I decided I had better write a blog entry on it since I am mostly focusing on mobile technologies.
What happens in Mobile reporting is that a mobile phone is used as a reporting tool. This is particularly useful in areas that lack modern Internet infrastructure (E.g.:- Sub Sahara Africa, Central Asia, South America, Latin America) because the mobile phone is low in cost when compared to more traditional reporting equipment.
The methodology
User creates and combines text, photo and video and produces a multimedia based report. The content will be edited on the phone before being uploaded to the internet via mobile network or Internet connection. Usually mobile reporting is used for publishing reports to the web. This is mostly due to the fact that current mobile technology not yet allowing for the production of high end video which in turn affecting the video content being uploaded. Since low quality video is suitable for Internet, it does not become an issue when uploading content to the web .
Advantages of mobile reporting are,
- Ability to capture text, photo and video
- Ability to capture audio
- First level editing functions
- Connection to mobile network and Internet
- Small and easy to use
Technology being used
Mobile Reporting makes use of a content repurposing platform which supports services that let content owners and users to create, share and publish multimedia content whenever and wherever they want and regardless of format or device. Such a mobile reporting platform takes care of the compatibility between the originating and the target device.
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