Newhouse Social Media

Newhouse Social Media

Newhouse Social Media  //  Curated by colleagues from the 2012 MAYmester PRL530 Social Media for Public Relations class in the Public Relations Master's Program at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.

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Apr 24 / 1:49am

Posterous unveils Post Editor 2.0: Your universal posting tool - The Official Posterous Posterous

by Philip Ryan Johnson

Posterous is not a microblog. It's your place to post everything. Now we've added a simple but powerful new post editor that lets you post any combination of photos, music, video and docs, and intersperse them with text in any order you want. There are no limitations that force you to choose whether a post is for photos, video, embeds or anything else. It's simple and powerful at the same time.

Here's what you can do now with every Posterous blog as of today, both for posting new posts and editing old ones.

Upload any kind of photos, music, videos and documents
Select and push multiple files up in one batch, all with no additional software install.

Image rotation, reordering and deletion
Reordering image galleries is as easy as dragging and dropping them into the order you want. Rotating images to the correct orientation is super easy, and deleting is just a click too.

Combine and ungroup image galleries easily
Finally, sometimes you want to break some images out of a gallery or rearrange which photos are where. That's easy with our ability to expand and combine galleries. 

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Rich text and media the way you want it
Whatever you upload is automatically and intelligently mixed with the text of your blogpost in any order that you desire. Just cut and paste or drag the media to where you want in the document. 

Try it now, enabled for all Posterous sites and users today.
Now you can create and edit posts without all the hassle. What are you waiting for? Next time you edit a post, you'll get dropped in automatically.

You can also post at any time via the web by clicking Post by Web on your Manage page.

You asked for it, and we delivered. Posterous is about creating simple software that does what you need without complicating your life. We've got your back. As always, feedback, questions and bug reports are welcome at help@posterous.com.

via blog.posterous.com

Loving this update so far...

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Feb 1 / 2:27am

Fastest Way to Add Photos to a New Posterous Post

by Philip Ryan Johnson

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I've received a bunch of emails asking about how to get images into Posterous. You would think the simplicity of Posterous would allow you to upload photos easily, but that isn't the case if you are using the "Post by Web" interface, which I am using now.

If you have a single photo, one of the easiest ways is to write your post as an new email and then email it to your personal blog at post@posterous.com or to the class blog at post@newhousesocialmedia.posterous.com, draft your email and just click send. The image will automatically attach.

One cool thing about posting via email is that if you have multiple images, they will all appear together in a fun Posterous-style slideshow. However, this isn't always ideal as we bloggers may want to put an image at the beginning, write a few paragraphs, then have one or two images later on.

And yeah, it's great to use the bookmarklet to post links and comment on other sites, but hey, we're hardcore bloggers now and often have our own opinion...so we need to use the regular web interface to create a post.

So how do you upload images to your post and get them to appear correctly?

Well, Posterous makes it easy—and difficult. There is no upload image button within the web interface. But wherever you want an image to appear, you simply copy/paste a link to the image directly into your post. The only thing is you have to have an image already uploaded somewhere on the web—Flickr, Picasa, or other sites. Flickr tends to be the easiest, but creating an account and all the hassle that goes with that makes Posterous seem like a lot of extra work.

Use Image Sharing Sites

One of the easiest ways to do this is by using one of the image sharing sites that have become popular mostly due to Twitter, such as Twitpic and Imgur. Those like Twitpic are geared for Twitter users, but others like Imgur are for anyone to quickly upload a photo and get a link to that photo as fast and easily as possible.

Just visit the Imgur site, click the Browse button, and click Continue to upload your photo.

The copy the URL address on the next page:

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And come back to your Posterous post and just paste the link directly into your post on its own separate line—don't paste the image link within a paragraph or a sentence because it won't always work. Just hit that return button, paste the link, hit return again, and continue typing.

Easy.

The same thing goes for any image on the web with the usual .jpg, .gif, or .png extension. As well as links to YouTube videos. Posterous is pretty smart at recognizing links to different types of content.

For more on this, check out a related post on the Official Posterous Blog.

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Jan 20 / 3:41am

How to Use Posterous YouTube Video

by Philip Ryan Johnson
via youtube.com

Mentioned in class yesterday. Gives a great overview of the service.

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