Hey there, Parker here. I'm back online and trying out a few new social media tools.First, let me say that it's been a while since my last update. I tell others to go offline and see the real world every once in a while, so for the last month I followed my own advice.
Now I'm back and I'm checking out as many free apps and tools as I can. I heard good things about Posterous so today's post will cover my experience and thoughts on this particular social media tool. It allows you to update your social media platforms all at once using email. I can see the potential. Currently I write my blog > post the link to AOL Lifestream which in turns updates Facebook and Twitter. Twitter feeds into LinkedIn, 4square and Tumblr. It's a piecemeal process but it works for me.
Now I send an email to Posterous and it automatically updates my Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Blogger. I have more but you get the picture.
Multi-channel post with a single email - that is definitely a pro! The low-level learning curve for using the tool and getting setup is a pro. Another pro is it pulled all of my previous blogger post with a single click of a button.
The only con so far is it doesn't show rich link display on LinkedIn (picture, page title, and short description). Another con is it only posts the hyper-linked blog title on Twitter.
But I can live with that (for now). I'll test this out for the next week and if I can't find a really good theme that ties into my other social media profiles, I'll go back to the old way of updating my status - one site at a time.
Best,
Parker
