Part 2: Easy? Piece of cake

For those who hear the word "blog" and are unfamiliar with the term, things like web cams, linking back and forth, technical lingo, and the words "really hard" come to mind (true facts backed up by my asking around my own house). Posterous proves all of these blogging assumptions to be absolutely FALSE. While I have blogged before and experienced these tricky posting hurdles that have steered me away from many sites, Posterous makes posting things other than words so easy, I almost forgot it was a writing space. For example, today I came across this hilarious video on youtube and wanted to show numerous people who I knew would get a good laugh. Instead of 1) waiting until I saw each and every one of these people in order to show them or 2) texting/calling each of them prompting them to go watch, I simply copied and pasted the link into an email, and clicked send. Then, to my joyful surprise, Posterous embedded the youtube video for me in a posting and the video appeared right on my page. With other blogging sites, this embedding stuff is not so easy. With Posterous, the simple "Copy and Paste" trick is all one needs.

Not only is embedding pictures easy, embedding pictures is even easier. The other day, I was listening to one of my favorite songs "American Honey" by Lady Antebellum and one particular lyric really struck me. Long story short, I immediately wanted this lyric shared with the world and I wanted to find a picture that I thought would match the words. Less than 2 minutes, one google image search, and and email later, and my song lyric and picture were posted, simply by copy and pasting the photo into and email along with the lyrics in the subject line. The great thing about Posterous is the subject line of your email acts as the title of your post. Easy enough right?

In addition to how easy it is to post on your own Posterous site, Posterous makes your life even easier by allowing you to repost your postings to your Facebook, Twitteer, Myspace, etc with one click. When you sign up with Posterous, the site simply asks you if you are a part of any of these other sites. By clicking yes, and logging in to those accounts, you have successfully set up autopost and allowed Posterous to repost your Posterous postings onto your Facebook, Twitter, etc without having to do any extra work. This allows for your site to be seen by even more viewers, even those who are not a part of the Posterous community. Allowing tons of people to read more of my thoughts and hear what I have to say? Yes please.

These shots show my Posterous postings on my Twitter and my Facebook.

 

Finally, the easiest part about Posterous, is figuring out how to use it. My biggest pet peeve with any site is the FAQs page (Frequently Asked Questions). These pages are typically harder to navigate than the site itself and I usually end up never revisiting because I get too frustrated. However, the clean and tailored look of Posterous does not end just with the main site. The FAQs page is so easy to use it is ridiculous. The questions are huge and bolded and are the kind of questions I was actually asking myself, not just questions the site people assumed I would ask. THEN, right after the question was a step by step answer along with an image to show what would really happen when one did what the steps explained. Amazing. Whoever designed this site deserves a raise.

Overall, I give Posterous a HUGE

A+

for easiness and user friendlieness. :)