Jude 2

Any of you techie-bloggy people use Posterous?

It's kind of really simplified tool for blogging, sharing photos, etc. Pretty much ZERO set-up required, and you post to it by sending a simple email. Period.

My example: http://kahugary.posterous.com/

I am thinking of creative ways to utilize this as a ministry/outreach tool.

PG, funny, I was about to post this review to my Blog.


Need a simple site that can be updated easily with email and doesn't require hours to setup? Posterous may be for you. Posterous is a site similar to Tumblr. It is meant to be a quick post micro blogging site that combines the ease of Twitter with the blogging style of Wordpress or a similar platform.

Their Terms of Service are better than most sites in that they do not attempt to assume ownership of your content or force you into releasing your content under a Creative Commons Share and Share Alike type of license instead og respeacting your personal copyright. (Tumblr has been moving that way and some microblogs like identi.ca force you to agree to give people the right to repurpose or remix your copy for non-comercial use as long as they attribute you)

The setup and use are simpler than most and the thems they offer allow the site to look like a full self-hosted blog. Autoposting to other services is a relatively new function of these sites in a bid to keep you on their service and to draw traffic to them. This works pretty well, especially if you don't use those services regularly. Personally, cross-posting works for me, but I end up in a feedback loop if I am not careful (see my blog post hereto see how I embarrassed myself that way.)

All in all, it's a pretty good site for ease of use and to use as a quick post that can then be sent to other services for you.

Simple to use, Open to the public.

Bravo.

Very easy to use. I've set one up for our store. No pictures yet (I'll get that, though). I'll put up signs in the store with the link. We're a wi-fi hot spot, so it should generate a little bit of traffic anyway. Don't know if you don't try. Thanks for posting that.

http://sheltonsjif-e-mart.posterous.com

Okay, I have a question already. I was going to grab a street view of our store of Google. I can't. I should be able to, it seems. Any suggestions? It's there. I just can't make it work for the posterous site.

dolfan wrote:Okay, I have a question already. I was going to grab a street view of our store of Google. I can't. I should be able to, it seems. Any suggestions? It's there. I just can't make it work for the posterous site.

Can you make a screen shot off your computer, crop it and embed it in an email to posterous? That should work.

I don't know how to do that, either!!

dolfan wrote:I don't know how to do that, either!!

Check your email.