Ok, the write-up worked and I'm trying out @Sendible free for 30 days. Could be fun.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Metric VooDoo on Posterous
Well, it's finally time to figure out what all the fuss is about with this Posterous stuff... so I have created an account and at first glance, some of this stuff is pretty darn cool...
For example, I can email the innocuous-looking "post@posterous.com" and before I know it, the contents of that email has been posted throughout my web real estate holdings far and wide. If you've been looking for a basic tool that will coordinate your micro-blogging, perhaps this is it.
Posterous will let you hook up to the standard motely crew: twitter, facebook, linkedin, blogger, tumblr, flickr, picasa, youtube, wordpress, etcetera and so on... it also sneaks friendfeed and delicious in there, which is quite handy.
I've been using Ping.FM for over a year, partially because it's handy - that Firefox address bar plugin is awesome, and you can send pings in Gtalk - and partially because Ping transmits to half a bazillion other services very reliably. Lately I've been testing out a tool that was ostensibly designed for allowing better corporate Twitter management - a tool called CoTweet. CoTweet lets multiple people tweet on the same twitter account and it allows scheduled tweets. The odd thing I discovered after I started using it is that CoTweet has a connection to Ping.FM. So I spent a lot of time over the last week testing the premise that I could put my kid to work in CoTweet scheduling tweets from here to Enternity and they'd fire off through Ping.fm too, effectively covering ALL my social profiles, one pre-scheduled update at a time. Unfortunately, CoTweet's Ping connections gets the hiccups every other day.
While I can admire CoTweet's avoidance of reinventing the wheel, their troubles using Ping.FM's API makes their solution promising, but still somewhat unreliable. This makes CoTweet something I tell all of my corporate consulting clients about, but I am not insisting (yet) they they use it.
On the other hand, I'm sitting here in a Gmail account that I only have set up because I needed separate Analytics, Adsense and Adwords for my corporate work, and I'm about to send an EMAIL and simultaneously post to three blogs and half a dozen social profiles with one click....
THAT is cool!
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