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Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by a4agarwal »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #11
radicaldreamer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the little things that make all the difference imo. For example, while Facebook Groups does allow commenting by email, if you attach a picture to a reply, it doesn't appear in the group. Secondly, I don't see many small businesses or even teams within large companies using Facebook Groups to collaborate.

I don't see many small businesses or even teams within large companies using Facebook Groups to collaborate. Not sure if that's relevant, since I don't see any way that they start using Posterous for that. Whatever, I'm just throwing out my opinion that this doesn't seem like a big deal in Dec 2010. Maybe the ability to attach inline pictures will make all the difference, though.

Plenty of business and teams use Posterous Sites already today. Some are using Posterous as their public, outward facing site, and others as an internal, collaboration tool.

Many businesses also use Yahoo Groups or Google Groups today for email lists. Yet those products are pretty lacking.

We think there's a real need for a modern email list solution and we're confident we can get users from individuals to businesses to bring their lists to Posterous.

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by Splines »

Two questions:

- Can groups be members of other groups?

- In gmail when I click "reply" to a mail sent to the group, it just goes back to the sender (there is a "Reply To" visible in the mail, but gmail isn't using it for some reason).

Otherwise, neat stuff. Not everybody in my family is on Facebook, and others in the family are leery of using FB because of privacy issues (unintentional information sharing between friend circles).

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by revorad »

a4agarwal wrote: post #17
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #4

This would have been more interesting and innovative a couple years ago, but now that everyone and their mother (and grandmother, and grandfather) are on Facebook, I think Facebook Groups is a fine solution that offers all the features listed here. I had this exact problem twice in the last month, and both times, I found that everyone in the two real-world groups I was trying to bring online was already on Facebook.…

We found that Facebook Groups felt more like a group wall than a product for sharing and collaboration. You can't send attachments via email, and you can't reply with anything besides plain text. Posterous Groups makes email the core of the product. You can do everything via email including creating a group and replying with rich media attachments. There aren't any restrictions on what you can post. Facebook Groups d…

Can a Posterous group autopost to a Facebook Group?

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by a4agarwal »

sw1205 wrote: post #14

How is this different to frid.ge or neetly.com?

Think of Posterous Groups more like an email list on steroids than a web based groups product. You can invite people by adding their email address to the group, and they dont have to sign up for anything to use the service.

The service is fully functional as an email list, but better since it handles rich media well.

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by radicaldreamer »

Splines wrote: post #22

Two questions: - Can groups be members of other groups? - In gmail when I click "reply" to a mail sent to the group, it just goes back to the sender (there is a "Reply To" visible in the mail, but gmail isn't using it for some reason). Otherwise, neat stuff. Not everybody in my family is on Facebook, and others in the family are leery of using FB because of privacy issues (unintentional information sharing between fr…

1. Absolutely, you can be a part of any combination of public and private groups that you like.

2. It should go to a custom email address and will function as a reply to the post. The sender's name is the author of post or reply in that notification.

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by lists »

a4agarwal wrote: post #17
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #4

This would have been more interesting and innovative a couple years ago, but now that everyone and their mother (and grandmother, and grandfather) are on Facebook, I think Facebook Groups is a fine solution that offers all the features listed here. I had this exact problem twice in the last month, and both times, I found that everyone in the two real-world groups I was trying to bring online was already on Facebook.…

We found that Facebook Groups felt more like a group wall than a product for sharing and collaboration. You can't send attachments via email, and you can't reply with anything besides plain text. Posterous Groups makes email the core of the product. You can do everything via email including creating a group and replying with rich media attachments. There aren't any restrictions on what you can post. Facebook Groups d…

Exactly. I don't know why so many people believe facebook to have solved human communication. This is perfect for the way my friends are I discuss over literature, science, philosophy, and political topics. This is an application not taken very seriously by facebook groups (long posts get cut off, the "docs" feature is underwhelming, etc)

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by guynamedloren »

So let me get this straight. Your big pitch is "Sharing privately with groups is broken right now ... Multi-attachment, inbox-cluttering emails."

And you're solving that problem (a few sentences later) with "Every time you post to the group, she'll receive the full content as an email. She can reply directly to your email and everyone in the group gets her update."

How exactly does that solve any inbox-clutter problems whatsoever? If anything, it seems like it'd create even more inbox clutter. Am I missing something here? Sending more emails results in less clutter?

Re: Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

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Post by revorad »

rantfoil wrote: post #12
emmett wrote: post #5

Bug: I already had a posterous account, and whenever I try to create a new group it just sends me in circles and breaks. :-(

We're tracking this bug down now -- mind letting me know repro steps? We'll fix it asap -- garry@posterous.com Thanks Emmett!

Posts don't show up in the right pane in Firefox 3.0. I reported this bug in the beta test.
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