{"id":666,"date":"2009-08-27T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T08:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=666"},"modified":"2009-08-27T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T08:28:27","slug":"posterous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Posterous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LabourStart senior correspondent Oskar van Rijswijk (Netherlands) often comes up with the coolest tools.\u00a0 He found Twitter for us, for example.\u00a0 More recently, he strongly recommended that we check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.posterous.com\/\">Posterous<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some time today to check this out and can see that even with the first few steps, we&#8217;ve got a solution to several problems.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I added the Posterous email address to our English language mailing list.\u00a0 (That took about a second.)<\/li>\n<li>Then I sent out three test messages to Posterous by email &#8211; including our two most recent posts to our mailing list.<\/li>\n<li>All 3 were automatically posted to our <a href=\"http:\/\/labourstart.posterous.com\/\">LabourStart Posterous web page<\/a>, which means that this becomes an easy-to-find <strong>repository of our mailings<\/strong>, both for archival use and for our <strong>translators<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, all 3 were automatically routed as <strong>Tweets<\/strong> &#8212; initially to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/erictlee\">my own Twitter account<\/a>, but in future, to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/labourstart\">LabourStart&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We have the potential to do more &#8212; such as posting to Facebook, Flickr, blogs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there&#8217;s no additional work needed &#8212; every mass mailing we do from now on gets routed through Posterous, appears on our blog there, and is Tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LabourStart senior correspondent Oskar van Rijswijk (Netherlands) often comes up with the coolest tools.\u00a0 He found Twitter for us, for example.\u00a0 More recently, he strongly recommended that we check out Posterous.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some time today to check this out and can see that even with the first few steps, we&#8217;ve got a solution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}