Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy
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Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy
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#2You guys beat me to it (launching something similar this week). Very nice, indeed.
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#3Cool. What is Posterous's business model?
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#4This 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. Literally every single person out of maybe 50 people total, spanning age ranges from teenagers to folks in their late 50s. I found it much easier to get them to use it than it would have been if I had to explain this new posterous thing.
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#5Bug: I already had a posterous account, and whenever I try to create a new group it just sends me in circles and breaks. :-(
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#6This 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.…
As far as I know, Facebook Groups still doesn't send media along in its email updates. While most everyone is on Facebook, many family members I know don't check it regularly enough to make it practical. Email is a different matter.
I think Facebook definitely has the stronghold with familiarity, though. I'd expect their groups features to expand dramatically in 2011.
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#7This 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.…
As far as I know, Facebook Groups still doesn't send media along in its email updates. While most everyone is on Facebook, many family members I know don't check it regularly enough to make it practical. Email is a different matter. I think Facebook definitely has the stronghold with familiarity, though. I'd expect their groups features to expand dramatically in 2011.
By default, you get emails in FB groups for each message and comment, just like Posterous, and you can respond via email to post new messages (each group has its own email address) or comments. You could interact with multiple groups without ever logging into FB (I know because I do :).
I'm not sure about the media thing, though it's not really practical for video to attach the media...surely posterous doesn't do that either.
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#8I just tried it. It works well as a replacement for Google Wave - but it's nicer. Also, the emails means that there is instant notifications, which was a flaw that gwave had.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I know, Facebook Groups still doesn't send media along in its email updates. While most everyone is on Facebook, many family members I know don't check it regularly enough to make it practical. Email is a different matter. I think Facebook definitely has the stronghold with familiarity, though. I'd expect their groups features to expand dramatically in 2011.
By default, you get emails in FB groups for each message and comment, just like Posterous, and you can respond via email to post new messages (each group has its own email address) or comments. You could interact with multiple groups without ever logging into FB (I know because I do :). I'm not sure about the media thing, though it's not really practical for video to attach the media...surely posterous doesn't do tha…
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.
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#10This 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.…
As far as I know, Facebook Groups still doesn't send media along in its email updates. While most everyone is on Facebook, many family members I know don't check it regularly enough to make it practical. Email is a different matter. I think Facebook definitely has the stronghold with familiarity, though. I'd expect their groups features to expand dramatically in 2011.
Also, Facebook just doesn't handle images well; anything you upload is downsized (though I noticed they've started providing an option for Higher Quality uploads) and you have to look for outside solutions to simple tasks like downloading an album. This is one of the reasons why I upload on my posterous and have it autopost to FB.