Metric VooDoo on Posterous

Well, it’s finally time to figure out what all the fuss is about with this Posterous stuff… so I  have created an account and at first glance, some of this stuff is pretty darn cool… For example, I can email the innocuous-looking “post@posterous.com” and before I know it, the contents of that email has been posted throughout my web real estate holdings far and wide. If you’ve been looking for a basic tool that will coordinate your micro-blogging, perhaps this is it. Posterous will let you hook up to the standard motley crew: twitter, facebook, linkedin, blogger, tumblr, flickr, picasa, youtube, wordpress, etcetera and so on… it also sneaks friendfeed and delicious in there, which is quite handy. I’ve been using Ping.FM for over a year, partially because it’s handy – that Firefox address bar plugin is awesome, and you can send pings in Gtalk – and partially because Ping transmits to half a bazillion other services very reliably. Lately I’ve been testing out a tool that was ostensibly designed for allowing better corporate Twitter management – a tool called CoTweet. CoTweet lets multiple people tweet on the same twitter account and it allows scheduled tweets. The odd thing I discovered after I started using it is that CoTweet has a connection to Ping.FM. So I spent a lot of time over the last week testing the premise that I could put my kid to work in CoTweet scheduling tweets from here to Enternity and they’d fire off through Ping.fm too, effectively covering ALL my social profiles, one pre-scheduled update at a time. Unfortunately, CoTweet’s Ping connections gets the hiccups every other day. While I can admire CoTweet’s avoidance of reinventing the wheel, their troubles using Ping.FM’s API makes their solution promising, but still somewhat unreliable. This makes CoTweet something I tell all of my corporate consulting clients about, but I am not insisting (yet) they they use it. On the other hand, I’m sitting here in a Gmail account that I only have set up because I needed separate Analytics, Adsense and Adwords for my corporate work, and I’m about to send an EMAIL and simultaneously post to three blogs and half a dozen social profiles with one click…. THAT is cool!

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