Posterous - A Blog Alternative?

At last year's BlogWorld Expo, I sat in on a keynote with Guy Kawasaki. During the talk he mentioned a new (at the time) site called Posterous which he felt is another alternative, or complement, to a blog. Me, being the active experimenter that I am, immediately set up an account.

The gist of it is that you can simply send an email to post on your site. No logging in; no formating. Simply send an email with your content, including any attachments like photos, video or documents and it's automatically posted. Pretty easy.

I thought I had written about it here, but cannot find any reference when I do a keyword search of my blog posts. Here's a link to my first post.

Why would you do this? As Guy Kawasaki says on his Posterous site: it's "For everything that's slightly less than a blog post but slightly more than a tweet" And that's a perfect way to sum it up.

I confess, I don't post much because I forget that it's there. But when I'm on the road or running, it's a great way to share photos or quick thoughts from my phone - no computer required.

Posterous also gives you another point of visibility. Naturally, you get to set up another profile with your name, links and a bio. And, you can set up your account so your posts are automatically sent to your twitter feed and your Facebook profile. Love that automation!

Another idea...use Posterous for a personal blog or repository of ideas or photos or document a project or vacation or...you name it. How do you use Posterous?

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Comments

[Sachin Agarwal]

Thanks for the write up! We're actually great for family sites. You can create a site that is private and add all your family email addresses to it. They can post and comment on the site without creating an account.

When someone creates a new post (emails in some photos), we will instantly email them to all the contributors on the site. So it's like the easiest email list and family site out there.

[Denise Wakeman]

Great idea about using Posterous for a family blog. Since I generally only focus on business blogging, the family angle hadn't occurred to me. And business bloggers have families too, so this may be a great option for them.

Thanks, Sachin.

[Denise Wakeman]

Here's another creative way to use Posterous, that I learned about via Twitter:

http://twitter.com/intention/status/1796850569

[Christine]

Hi Denise,

Thanks for the reminder about Posterous--it's one of those sites I've been meaning to check out.

I can see using it for those less than a blog entry more than 140 character musings I sometimes want to add to my main blog but feel are not quite meaty enough for a post.

[Tim Stiffler-Dean]

Our company needed a blog that just worked for a few weeks while we build our new website. I don't have time to be messing with extra options and I know that if I had those options I wouldn't resist tweeking them. So, I removed any temptation and setup a posterous account because it's just that easy to use.

Eventually I'll move it over to a wordpress self-hosted blog, but for now I just need something that works and posterous does!