Struggling to create a lot of content in a short amount of time? Tired of Blogging, Tagging, Filling out Forms, Descriptions, and Backlinks? Try Posterous.
I’m honestly blown away by how simple it is to blog with Posterous.com. There are tons of blogging tools and templates out there. I have been blogging through Word Press, for example. I like it. So why mess with what works? Because it’s worth it… It allows me to share a lot more content with a lot less time, and it works well with everything else I’m doing.
Posterous is content development at its simplest.
When my brother asked me why Posterous, why do you have Misheel’s Scrapbook and SEO-Web-Design Scrapbook? I told him, “Because it is the simplest interface I have seen for sharing.”
Here’s how simple it is. Before you even have an account, when you email to post@posterous.com, voila! You have a blog. Then you claim your blog, and make an account, which is just confirming it and putting a password in. (Another kudos: it’s fairly new, so you can get pretty decent names still.)
You can seamlessly integrate with Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other sites. It will post it automatically for you. You only want to post it on Facebook? You email, facebook@posterous.com. It will do the right thing. Twitter? Email, twitter@posterous.com. Both Facebook and Twitter, but not posterous? You email, facebook+twitter@posterous.com. Makes sense, right? Of course it does! How great is that?
Because it will automatically broadcast everywhere, your Twitter followers will follow your link to your blog. So, I have a regular readership of people checking out each blog. Throughout the day, I have multiple email drafts I work on, and I email them when I want to post it. But you can post by messaging from your phone too!
I saved the best part last. (A boo-boo in blogging, normally. Ha-ha.) It’s the bookmark. That thing made me a little nervous and intimidated at first. Nervous because when Posterous instructed me to download it to put on your bookmarks bar, I immediately remembered how much I hated “Bluelight” specials toolbar and other junk that got put on my browser, back in late 1990s and early 2000s.
Intimidated because I don’t know anything about technical stuff yet. My eyes still glaze over with something between trepidation and boredom, when presented with an instructional on how to understand the various technical scripting, plugins, and languages. Hey, that’s why we hire programmers and stuff, right?
However, when Posterous explained, I can be viewing anything on any website, and click the bookmark I downloaded, to share instantly. Just like that, it pulls up a window, allowing me to pick what exactly I want to pull from the website, and has a window for me to add my personal comments, if I like. Then when I click post, voila.
I will have posted a blog with proper backlinks, properly citing the source, and everything will be snapped and reformatted to look like the rest of my personal blogs. You don’t need to know anything technical like imbedding or formatting. It literally takes me 2 seconds to post, let’s say, a video from YouTube I like. Sharing an article from a news site is instant with my followers or subscribers, through my blog. Okay, 20 seconds, if I want to share my opinion or change how the wording will appear in the Title, to Twitter. BTW, is it important to use your portal and your blog site to direct people, even if someone else wrote it? Of course it is! See what I’m getting at?
Tagging is easy, too. After you post, you go to your post, click “Tag.” Start typing away the keywords for the blog. It will automatically show a ranking of the Tags from the most often mentioned to the least often, on a sidebar. If you don’t know why tagging is important, keep learning! I’ll cover this soon.
In short, Posterous has made blogging and sharing information so easy that I can’t think of many reasons not to use it.
Obviously an enthusiast and enthusiastically sharing away,
Misheel. 
