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Micro Persuasion: Posterous is Changing How I Think About Blogging - Jerod's Blog

Posterous is basically a blogging platform that is in between microblogging services like Twitter and blogging engines set up for more long-form posts, like WordPress.

We are just discovering Posterous and getting comfortable with it, but the amazing thing is that EVERYTHING can be done through email. And it is super easy to integrate with all of your social bookmarking accounts. For instance, this post is instantly being created on our posterous account, at our blog, and on our twitter account. Amazing.

The following is a great comparison between Tumblr and Posterous, the two most prominent of the mid-size, "lifestream" platforms, and provides a good background on what Posterous has to offer:

http://mashable.com/2009/06/29/posterous-vs-tumblr/

It certainly makes blogging easier and more fun. Moving forward, we will be looking into find specific ways that it can help businesses profit both tangibly and intangibly online.