Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
"unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is just showing how little they know
about Twitter. It would be like complaining you shouldn't use email
because "not everyone has email".
You control where we post.
Just email the right address and we'll do the right thing.
Post Everywhere? p...@posterous.com as usual
Twitter? twit...@posterous.com
Flickr? fli...@posterous.com
Facebook? faceb...@posterous.com
Tumblr? tum...@posterous.com
Any other blog? b...@posterous.com
Posterous only? poster...@posterous.com
Combine them! flickr+twit...@posterous.com
It's this richness which confuses the ordinary person.
That's a lot like saying Perl is too complicated for the ordinary person
so never use Perl. :-)
How are they to know which bit of the scattergun approach is the right
one to use? Or whether "posting everywhere" has some hidden disadvantage.
You can configure it and use it however YOU want. If it's too confusing
to use it selectively - sometimes posting in all places, sometimes
posting in just one place, then configure it for your preferred use and
use the regular "post everywhere" method each time you post. For
network outage announcements it would work perfectly to post to Twitter
and your company blog(s) in one step. Bonus - if it can't reach one
system at least the post gets posted on the other system. For this
reason your company may want to setup a shadow blog on one of the free
blogging platforms, in addition to a blog on the company website. This
way if your website is down, the news on the other blog is still out
there for those that follow the blog to find/read.
The configurable aspects of posterous are most helpful for people who
have more diverse posting habits - who want to post news to some (but
not all) channels, who sometimes post chatty things they want to go to
facebook, sometimes post business things they don't want to go to
facebook, who post photos they want to go to flickr and facebook but not
their blog, etc. If you are active with social networking it would be
perfect. I you just use it as an announcement tool, just use the defaults.
jc
