Comments on: Posterous is blogging with emails!

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:54:29 +0000

Hey Alanna- Like with any new tool, it’s important to evaluate your needs and if the tool really fits in to your strategy or not. Coolness doesn’t get to be a decider 🙂

Personally, I plan to use posterous as a personal blog, where I can tell a story and post photos from a trip for friends and family to follow. That is because I already have this blog, don’t want to mix the two kinds of posts, and want family and friends to have an easy way to follow along with our adventures (the text + photos + videos, aspect, etc.). Many bloggers already have a professional and a personal space though, and posterous may be something they think is cool, and can recommend to others or follow its developments, but not actually adopt themselves.

Keep us posted on what you do!

By: Alanna

Alanna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:33:34 +0000

Thank you for the email! My comment was unclear – I actually meant, I can’t think of a use for it. It’s a brilliant nifty tool, but I can’t think of a way to use it in my own life. What exactly does an easily-posted-to supplementary blog do for me? However simple the posting is.

By: Alanna

Alanna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:16:37 +0000

I find myself wanting to use posterous because it’s just so cool, but I can’t figure out how!

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:47:29 +0000

Thanks – So glad to share! I got my friend and my mom hooked on it over the weekend, too!
It’s hard to not get excited about tools that really seem to be a missing link, or an easy fix, etc.

Plus, my experiences with the Posterous staff so far have been wonderful! They are really quick with answers and comments.

I don’t know where the name came from though!

By: Jocelyn Harmon

Jocelyn Harmon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:58:26 +0000

SUPER COOL! thanks for sharing, Amy! I LOVE the clean web design and the simplicity. If they can scale quickly enough for all the traffic they’re going to get this one will be BIG!

Everytime I VOW not to be impressed with new technology for it’s own sake, something like Posterous comes along. What does it mean anyway? Did they drop the Pre = absurd?

Jocelyn

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:38 +0000

Me too, Michele! I think it is a great way for people more fearful or less connected to technology and social media to jump into blogging and sharing online. There is really a lot that people could do with the tool and I’m glad it is such a clean process (less barriers to adoption).

By: Michele Martin

Michele Martin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:41:03 +0000

I started playing with Posterous over the weekend and agree that it has a lot of potential for people and orgs that are looking for a sort of “bridge” blog technology. The other advantage of their easy and well-thought out email interface is that you could also post via cell phone, which is great for on the fly kinds of posts. I see a lot of possibilities with Posterous!

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By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:07:16 +0000

Great, Meg! I’d love to hear how it goes for you – keep us posted!

I think it would be a great way to blog about your work because it wouldn’t require any additional web work to add a blog to the org’s site since it would all be hosted on the posterous site but would also allow you the flexibility to post from anywhere with internet just by sending in the email (so you just have to format it or whatever in your email and not learn any knew programs)!