Get Your Content Where it Belongs With Posterous

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Maintaining an online marketing plan of attack can be hard. Keeping up with all the places you should be marketing yourself (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, your blog, your LiveJournal), can go from hard to overwhelming  fast. That’s where Posterous comes in.

Getting started on Posterous is a breeze. Take something you want to share (some photos, a video, a blog post) and email it to post@posterous.com. Boom, Posterous responds with your custom http://_____.posterous.com address, where your content is now online and ready to share. But, you’re just getting started.

The real magic at Posterous begins when you claim your account by going to Posterous.com and signing up. From there, you can link your account at 25 different social networking sites, including those linked above, plus your Facebook Fan Page which is a huge bonus. Now, when you post to Posterous (via Posterous.com, email, or text) Posterous will analyze what you’ve sent and automatically publish it to the appropriate accounts. Videos go to YouTube, Pics to go Facebook and Flickr, the subject line of emails go automatically to Twitter. Posterous is now your digital intern. Give it your content and it will figure out where it goes.

Or, if you’re a micromanaging control freak (like me), you can go one step further. Name a specific service in the posterous email address(twitter@posterous.com. flickr@posterous.com) to post to that service. Or, name more than one (twitter+flickr@posterous.com). Email posterous@posterous.com to keep it just on your posterous page.

Posterous is a fairly new service, and doesn’t link to as many services as, say, FriendFeed. But Posterous’s unique ability to dole out your content to many, if not all, of your social networking profiles is a lifesaver when you’re pounding that digital pavement.

Posterous user? Or do you use a similar service that you like better? Let us know in Comments.