The one-click publisher in action

I think my ultra-efficient publishing system is now working. But after using Twitterfeed instead of Posterous to link direct from Blogger to Twitter (as detailed on my last post), I've made another change for the same reason:  When I found that the feed to my Facebook Page was also from the Posterous blog (which I don't really want to draw attention to since my Blogger one looks better and has more to offer), I have stopped Posterous from posting to Facebook for me.  Instead, I have used Notes, an in-house app for the Facebook Page, to take a feed direct from Blogger.  This will have one further small advantage: I have the ability to write a note on GoodReads, and link it to my Blogger account - which will mean those posts will automatically appear on my Facebook Page and Twitter feed, which would not have happened if I'd left it all to Posterous.  But Posterous remains the way the whole thing is triggered - through the email I'm sending it now. So, let's see if it's actually working as I think it is. One other point: both Notes and Twitterfeed only post after they have periodically scanned your blog, which seems to take up to 30 mins for Twitterfeed and a couple of hours for Notes. So the response isn't instant. The only other way to make the system cover even more ground would be to add LinkedIn, but I'm not sure people really want lots of email updates from LinkedIn, telling them someone they happen to have on their list has said something. Once it's all set up, I'll have to think of something else to write about.  Picture is of Omaha, Nebraska.

From email to Posterous to Facebook and Blogger, and on to Twitter - via Twitterfeed

OK, this may be getting a bit too complicated, all in the name of simplicity.  But following my Posterous experiment yesterday (see previous post, if it appeared where you are reading this), I have made some adjustments.  Posterous basically worked, except I hadn't connected up my new Facebook Page properly, and while my post successfully appeared on my blog, the tweet about it linked to an automatically-created Posterous blog, which I don't really want to bother with as I already have my Blogger one.  So this time I have tried to correct the Facebook Page link, and have told Posterous not to send to Twitter: instead I have connected my Blogger to Twitter using Twitterfeed.  So that's what I'm trying out with this email - which should produce: - A post on my Posterous blog - A post on my Blogger blog - A post on my Facebook page - A tweet of the Blogger post ...all with one email, which would be great.  And there's a pic attached for good measure.

Test of Posterous

It's a quiet Saturday, and alongside trying to make my Macbook work with its new hard drive (not quite successfully ...but very, very close), I have signed up with Posterous. It gives an easy way to post on blogs, Facebook, Twitter etc. just be sending a single email to posterous.com.  It makes you its own blog with all the stuff you send it, and formats and forwards your posts, pictures etc to any other accounts you have linked to.  I don't quite understand exactly what it does, so this is a test, which should appear at various places I've told it to link to.  And, for good measure, a picture is attached, to see what it does with that.  Press Send, and then I'll be checking my various accounts to see how it's turned out.  Oh, and can it recognise colour in this email? And how about a different, big typeface?