While preparing for a workshop and a webinar on audio tools, I happen to run across Posterous and was immediately intrigued. This blog tool lets you easily post via your email and even cross-post simultaneously to a number of other sites, including Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, Blogger, WordPress, and more. And, while those are really cool features, what really got my attention was the ability to podcast via email.
I’ve taught a lot of podcast workshops and I’m always looking for new tools that make it easier to become a podcaster without having to learn a lot of the technical stuff. Posterous is that new tool. Imagine it – create your mp3 audio file, email it to your blog, and voila! You’re a podcaster. Posterous takes care of the rest – putting your file into your blog so that it can be listened to there and also having a feed automatically generated so people can subscribe to it in iTunes.
If you’ve been waiting for a simpler way to podcast, then give Posterous a try. And, while you’re at it, check out how easy it is to use the other features of this blogging tool: you can send ppt, doc, pdf, jpg, avi, mpg files and more to your blog just by sending an email with an attachment. They’ll be put in a format that can be read online and even downloaded and shared with others. You’ll be amazed at the simplicity and usefulness of this cool blogging tool.
