Socialmedialand

Posts Tagged ‘Posterous’

I haven’t written in a while.

I know that.

But I’ve been doing some soul searching in the meantime. I really love my job, and I love what I do – but it just doesn’t seem like I have the drive to get home from work and put together a cohesive blog post anymore. All of my passion and all of my drive is going into my work and there’s not enough left over to maintain this blog. At the same time, so many other people out there are doing a fantastic job covering this industry and I don’t feel like I’ve been offering anything here that’s not already being done.

That being said, I DO love to share the things I learn and offer my particular opinion on them. Often that opinion exceeds 140 characters. So, I’ve decided to switch over to Posterous.

In case you’re not familiar with Posterous, it’s billed as “the simplest blogging platform to date” and I would describe it as a cross between a full fledged blog, and Twitter. By using a suite of email addresses you can send updates to Posterous that will then  update your Facebook, Twitter, Blog, YouTube, Flickr, or any combination of those things.

My plan is to use my Posterous feed for a wide varity of things I’m interested in and send those updates to Facebook, Twitter or here to Socialmedialand, depending on the type of content. Doing it that way will allow me to share an article, write a paragraph about my thoughts on it, and post to Twitter and here, without feeling like I need to develop an entire blog post.

You heard right, Socialmedialand is not closing – I think I’ve built up some great content here and a sizeable repository of resources (if you haven’t checked out the resource pages, I sincerely recommend it) so I want to keep it going, but just use it in a different way. Most of what you’ll see from now on will be short format posts summarizing other information I’ve found and offering my insight to what it means. If that’s not something you’re interested in, feel free to unsubscribe, I won’t be hurt (too much.) If you think that sounds great- click that orange subscribe button on the sidebar.