With family and friends far away and grandparents begging us to share photos, videos, and as much of our kids’ daily goings on as we can, I’m always on the hunt for whatever beats forwarding media from my phone. I’d been hearing about about Posterous for a while now as a blog alternative–a simple, smart and free way to share information–but had yet to be introduced to their new groups feature.
Well now that Posterous is a Cool Mom Tech sponsor (whoo!), it was an awesome opportunity for me to create a Posterous group of my very own, and test out all its cool features to discover the great ways it can make a parent’s life easier.
Which, really, is exactly what it does.
With a simple sign that takes just a few seconds, you’ll have access to a super smart platform that allows you to safely send and share photos, videos, and more with your friends and family.
Unlike other services out there, Posterous groups is a completely free service, though functions like something you’d probably be more than happy to pay for. All your media uploads are sent within the body of an email, not as an attachment, and are formatted for optimum viewing experience. That means that not only will Grandmom not be calling you four times to figure out how to open those photos, but she won’t be getting wonky, compressed pictures and video that look far different than what you originally uploaded.
Aside from the default privacy setting which helps to ensure safe sharing, Posterous makes it so easy to add members to your group. If they’ve got an email address, then all you need to add them to your list. That’s right–they don’t even have to go to the site to sign up, or ever log in anywhere other than their own email address to see the updates. So great!
So whether you’re trying to stay connected with family, streamline your parents group communication, or coordinate your kids’ school organization, we think Posterous is such a smart choice for parents. And one that will make life easier. Something we all can certainly appreciate.
Congratulations to Kelly C. for winning the $500 gift card from Posterous!
This looks very cool. I signed up and hope to use it to communicate with my family who. sadly, live far away too…
I just signed up and I’m going to use my Posterous account to display my journalism work!
to keep in touch with family
I’d use Posterous to blog about my love of shoes!!
I signed up. This is great! I am going to use this to write about my kids and show family what we are up to every day. We have alot of family in other states (including the kids grandparents) This would make it easier for them to see what’s going on in our lives and be able to be more of a part of my kids. Even thogh they can’t see them every day, this would be second best 🙂 I also have a sick father in law so I could post on his progress and keep family updated. I don’t have the time to call everyone, so with this they could all just go online and see for themselves!
I’d use the Posterous group for communications with parents in my elementary school-aged children’s classrooms. We could post photos and share fun news.
I have two little boys and we have family in 5 different states. This will be awesome to share photos and the happenings of my two little guys with our friends and family that can’t see their handsome little faces every day. How great. Just registered. Thanks!
I’ll be using it to share photos with far flung relatives who are all different levels of tech savvy. Facebook has failed, a Yahoo group confused everybody, and some people aren’t sure where the email attachments “go” after they open them…thanks for spreading the word!
I am using it to keep grandma up to date with all the happening in her grandkid’s lives. Thanks so much for this info. It is exactly what I have been hoping for!
I’m thinking of using mine to post updates with friends about me trying to lose weight.
I’m creating a group to keep our family – all of whom live out of state – updated on the comings & goings of our kids. yay!
I may use it to organize a family reuninion to take place this summer. megancrose at gmail dot com
this looks FANTASTIC! thanks so much for sharing this info — i set up a site — http://thecantwellfamily.posterous.com/ — i look forward to using it as a new blog for our family to share updates and pictures with family and friends near and far!
This is going to be perfect for “staying in touch” visually. Thank you!
I am going to use mine to keep the family up to date on how my son is doing in school, baseball, etc. and how big my twin baby girls are getting! Thanks.
Ooohh I LOVE it already! My close family wants to see more then what I post of facebook and this provides a more private setting. How cool that I can send certain posts over to facebook. Neato!
I’m going to use posterous for our church group.
A Posterous group would help me keep in touch with my siblings and their growing families. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m going to use it to keep in contact with family & friends.
I’m using it to keep the family talking.
This is great! Even though I keep a blog my less than tech-savy relatives still can’t seem to keep up with our family. This will be the PERFECT solution!
Perfect for keeping grandparents happy with daily photos of their grandsons.
I would use mine for contact between my friends with aspergers!
This is such a wonderful idea. I would use Posterous for communicating with my Dad, Brother, Sister and their families that all moved out of state in the past year.
Thanks so much.
I will use to communicate with old cronies.
I think I am going to love this site! It will be useful to keep in touch with family that is out of state. Thanks for the tip!
I am going to use posterous to share my poems with the world. I hope to one day become a writer and share my poetry and stories with the world. $500 would help greatly in the start of me publishing my first books and posterous will help in getting my work out to everyone before my books come out.
I’m going to look into using it for both family stuff and for my business…keeping users up to date on tutorials and software updates.
ALL of my daughter’s grandparents, Aunties, Uncles and cousins live very far away – and I want to make sure they can stay up to date with pictures – but don’t want to overwhelm my Facebook feed! This is PERFECT!!
Oh, I’ll use it to update my far-away family on the latest cuteness of my two little girls. But I’m especially hopeful that it will help me share video. (I’m so tired of posting personal videos on a certain public video site, just so we can share with family!)
What a great idea! I can definitely use these to keep grandparents up to date on what my son is doing.
I just signed up…I am part of an online moms group-there are 35 of us all over the country. We just left a board we created due to tech issues and fees- so for now we are using Facebook’s private groups- but it is pretty hard to keep track of posts and respond/read them all. I am wondering if this is a fit for us?
for family
this is all about the family. we’ve always talked about starting a family newsletter and this looks perfect.
I created an account and would use it to share the pictures of my nephew’s swimming lessons.
THANKS for the AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!!
Scott
spmartin122@gmail.com
I’m going to use this to send updates to my family and let them know what’s going on with our kids. I love that you can create private groups so you can share with only the people you want to see your content.
Thanks for sharing! We live in Seattle with our kids but have no family around here. My family lives in England and my husbands in IN. This site is perfect for sharing!
I signed up and I’m going to use my Posterous account to keep in touch with family.
austma7@aol.com
I signed up! And this is great for our huge family! We do so many events in the summer and people are always complaining about not getting all the info, now they will have no excuse
I would love to keep the grandparents up to date on our family – signed up as idahojill, thanks!
I will be using my Posterous group to share my Graphic Design & Photography work with my fellow artists as I am stuck at home due to serious health problems.
I’m sure I will also share photos of my adorable godson to my friends & family currently stationed in Iraq
I signed up for Posterous and I am going to use the account to keep in touch with friends and family Thanks for the giveaway
Keep in touch with my family in Germany…
I am trying to decide whether I want to use my first Posterous group with my weight loss support group or to share pictures and stories of my 3 month old with faraway family! May have to start two groups!
Can’t wait to use this with friends and family.
My brother and his family are moving to Germany in a few weeks. He will be gone for 2 years. This will be a great way for us to keep in touch and share photos or videos. We are going to miss them but this will make things much easier! Thanks!
Signed up!
tvollowitz at aol dot com
I’m going to use it for staying in touch with my brother and mom!
I signed up to create an easy way for long-distance friends and family to keep in touch!
I just signed up and look forward to sharing my family pics with my relatives in Brazil!
Looks great for sharing pics with the extended family.
I signed up to keep far away family connected with our family and to share pictures of our little girl!
Love the sound of this! I’ve just signed up and will share photos with friends and family, near and far. Thanks!
I’ll definitely use it to share photos and videos of the kids with the grandparents. Looks pretty cool!
I signed up and will use this to stay in touch with family.
I think this would be a great way to communicate with my speech/ language students and their families
I just signed up and plan on using my Posterous Account to share my prose (I’m an aspiring poet) and photos with family and distant friends!
Thanks for the chance to WIN!
Good Luck to All!
I want to use this for my friend’s wedding so I can network with the bridesmaids in one place. topgun34er(at)hotmail(dot)com
Great idea!! I signed up for group to make all of my long distance wedding planning (and idea sharing) easier. My family and friends span the globe! 🙂 Thanks for the great giveaway.
Just signed up too! We have a 3 1/2 yr old daughter, and another one on the way in May, so I’m hoping to use this to keep in touch with far away grandparents and other family.
I love Posterous and already use it for uploading photos to tumblr, facebook, and twitter. I hadn’t yet signed up for a group, though. So glad you wrote about the new features because I just set up a group of family members that aren’t so into facebook or my other social media avenues… Now they can get updates on what I think is important, too!
Oh wow. Posterous will be fantastic for keeping the various family across the US up to date on my daughter’s progress!
I just signed up. I think I’m going to use mine to keep in touch with family from out of state.
I signed up. I plan on using mine for keeping in touch with other people in my local area who are interested in collaborating on filming projects.
I just signed up, and would love to use this to share pictures with my family and friends.
I just signed up and I am going to share photos with all my guests from my son’s 3rd birthday.
This is great to keep in touch with my long distance family. One can only do so much on Facebook. Thanks!
Dove056 at aol dot com
Because I am 13 months behind on updating my blogger family account . . .
I signed up and I would use posterous for sharing photos with family
I just signed up. Will be using it to share pics with far off relatives of my newborn baby girl and her two older brothers.
thanks–signed up for posting to all media
Signed up to send out pics of my adorable kiddos!
I signed up and would use it for keeping current with immediate family, who now live from New England, to Florida, to Hawaii.
chainmail (at) iwon(dot) com
I signed up! I will use it to keep in touch with out of state family. Thank you!
I signed up – this is great. Will use it to post pictures of my son’s juggling competitions and to keep in touch with other members of his juggling club.
I will use it to stay in touch with family.
This will be perfect to use with my mom-the most nontech person in the world.
smchester at gmail dot com
i think this will be great for sharing pics with my non facebook inlaws. 😀
This is a cool new tool for staying connected with my family who live continents away. No need to upload memory heavy high res photos and wait minutes for it to be transmitted via email.
I love blogging, but I still get a little wigged out when a random parent in my son’s school calls out in the parking lot, “Hey I read your post about…” I would totally dig a private space that I can share the “embarrassing, but funny” parenting flops with just my friends.
this would make it much easier to keep all the relatives and friends updated with the new skills, the hilarious stories and the ridiculously huge amounts of photos only a new set of parents could take!
This is great. I have family all over the US and this is much easier than emailing everyone large attachments.
How cool! I could use this to stay more in touch with my cousins and family who live in Germany! Thanks!
I love the idea of starting a Posterous group for our Parents association!
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Something that can bridge the distance from Turkey to DC to Alaska! We are an international family in need of user-friendly convenient ways to share our lives with one another!
I would love to use this as a place to keep my family in the know about our goings on and share pictures that I wouldn’t include on my personal blog!
I signed up and am looking into it as a possible replacement for our family site (which no one uses anymore).
Signed up for an account. I will have to play around with it for awhile to see all its advantages…but so far so good.
I signed up! The grandparents and great grandparents will love this site for keeping track of all the littles: across 3 states and an ocean.
I signed up. I’m thinking of using it for friends and family to keep up with our family and especially because we are having another baby in about 6 weeks. I, too, have those in-laws that are constantly asking for more and more pictures despite the fact that I regularly send people pictures. If they got as few pictures from us as I get from my sister then they’d realize just how lucky they are getting the amount I do send!
I think this is exactly what I’m looking for. My family is scattered across the country.
Looks like a great site, I just signed up!
Just signed up!! thanks for the information:)
This looks like such a great site, an easy way to keep family and friends up dated on how the kids are changing.
so great, I just signed up. Our family is all over the world, I know we will find this super useful! Thank you for the giveaway!
We’re in the military, so we’ll use it to keep the family updated on our chlildren!
I am going to use this for my playgroup to share photos and info.
I am going to suggest this to the girl that runs our hs reunions. This would be great for our classmates to keep in touch.
Very cool! I signed up for an account that I’ll use to keep family and friends update with my son and the new baby on the way (due in June). I hope that they find it as useful and fun as I do. I like that it has more privacy than facebook so I don’t have to worry about sharing everything with the world.
This looks great. I signed up. I’ll be using it to let out of town family know what our little ones are up to!
Just signed up! I think this could be a good way to keep in touch with all of our relatives that live so far away from us and our boys.
Thanks!
Grandparents, aunts & uncles, dear friends–so happy when they receive even a scrap of a photo or story. This will increase their happiness immeasurably. Thanks!
As we’re about to announce to the family that we’re expecting a new baby, I think this might be an interesting way to do it.
I signed up – I’m AliceH123. I hope to use it as a way to link up all the email accounts and blogs I have on the web. It’s getting hard to manage, and this looks like a great way to solve the problem. Thanks!
Wow, this is a very cool service. I’d like to use it to communicate with our families, who live no where near us AND use it for keeping up with my friends who also live far, far away. Very cool. And easy. Sign-up was a cinch.
Wow, this is a very cool service. I’d like to use it to communicate with our families, who live no where near us AND use it for keeping up with my friends who also live far, far away. Very cool. And easy. Sign-up was a cinch.
I’ve been using posterous to share my baby boy’s everyday happenings with family who are spread out all over. It’s been awesome!
I signed up to create a group for my book club.
Just signed up. I will use this site to help communication with family near and far. It does look really cool.
I sighed up and will be using it for family. I have family all over the place and this is a way that they can keep up with the kids without feeling left out.
This is awesome…I am all signed up, and ready to keep in touch with friends and family far and wide!
will look it over more before i sign up, looks good so far
Very interesting! I’m going to use Posterous to keep the grandparents, aunts, and friends up to date on my 3 year old’s latest shenanigans!
Certainly better than huge files in my inbox.
I am going to use Posterous to communicate with my fellow family child care providers. I will use the $500 to buy an iPad to use educational apps for the kids in my daycare! Thanks!
This is just what i need to share my artwork that i do as a hobby and sometimes side business. i am looking forward to networking. thanks for the heads up!
hmcnaron at gmail
Signed up-thanks
I will use it to keep up with friends and family.
would use this to keep in touch with friends and relatives ib other ststes
I hadn’t thought of using Posterous for this. I’m going to try out the private site to keep the grandparents happy with kid pics and videos!
I’ll be testing it out for use for my neighborhood moms group! THANKS!!!
I recently moved away, so this would be a perfect way for me to keep in touch with everyone back home.
glycine.max at gmail.com
Oh this is awesome!!! Perfect solution to every parents media issues… I <3 posterous!
I signed up & I am excited to start sharing & communicating with family & friends.
This sounds like a great way to share photos with friends and family without emailing huge files and people being leery of clicking on attachments. It also looks to be easier for those who are not technically inclined.
Very cool way to keep in touch with my friends who are all over the world now
Interesting tech tool! How would you compare it with Facebook?
I signed up (as skalobster11). This will be nice for sharing pictures and stories.
I would use it to keep in touch with friends nationwide. Thanks!
Looks like a fun and organized way to get our family photos and news out to our far-flung “tribe” of relatives and friends. Looking forward to giving Posterous a try!
This looks great! I have friends in the army that are overseas, this would be fun to talk to them if they could get it too!
This would be great for our out of town family!
I’d use Posterous to keep a group of friends updated and having fun together.
dchrisg3 @ gmail . com
Posterous looks great! I’ve used Blogger in the past but this seems much more intuitive and fabulous for sharing. We’re expecting a daughter in just a few weeks and she’ll be the first grandchild on both sides. Our family and friends live all over the world (from Boston and Shanghai to Gaborone and Trieste) so this will be a great forum for sharing our new adventures in the land of parenting — without those pesky attachments that take forever to download especially for those stuck with spotty internet access!
I will use my group to share photos with my readers that showcase the zen of being human.
I signed up. Would be great to have a seperate way of keeping in touch with family besides Facebook. too many people.
I would use it to share photos and memories with the grandparents. They all live so far away and miss their grandkids terribly. Thanks for the info!
I just signed up and will use this to keep my mom and aunt updated with photos of my baby. They have issues with opening up attachments… 🙂
I’d use it to get in touch with friends from out of state….
This is so simple to use, that you don’t need to be a techy or geek to use it. Many times people don’t use what is available to keep in touch for fear it’s so complicated. Everyone I know can use this and find out the latest with family and friends.
I signed up and I think I will use it to communicate with the other members of my theater troupe on show ideas, videos, dates, etc 🙂
I would love to try this! What a great way to show off pics of the new baby!
I’d use this to keep in touch with family scattered all over the US. I love that I can use it to post to facebook also!
This giveaway is wonderful. I would love to win
Too much for some and not enough for others.
Looks like a great feature, one that might work better than things we currently use; especially for our little less than tech-savvy relative far away.
I think my daughter would be the one to make use of this.
I signed up. Looks cool!
I’d use it to share photos, because I’m constantly taking photos and my friends are accusing me of not showing them the finished products.
I’d use it to keep far away family updated on our soon to be born twins.
This could solve the endless headache of picture hungry distant relatives…who don’t do facebook or cell phones…yikes!
I’m signed up at Posterous. I’m going to use it to share yard sale finds with my online family and friends.
Would love to win!!!
This seems like a really neat idea. I would use it to reach out to my sister on the east coast.
I signed up I will use to keep in touch with friends!
tishajean@ charter.net
I’d use Posterous to share photos with my family both near & far. Please enter me in the giveaway, thanks!
What a great place!
This will be a nice “side” addition for my family, keeping up to date and staying in contact is soo important when u r scattered all over the globe!
howardreviews at gmail dot com
I just signed up. It looks interesting and I am always on the look out for something new to help me share my life with close friends and family.
This is a great way to stay “close” despite the distance!
I just signed up. It looks like a great site!
itsjustme62613 at gmail.com
registereed so my family and I could communicate
Seeing as I’m currently living in Hawaii, I would use this to keep in touch with my friends and family
I am using it to keep grandma up to date
des1232000 at gmail.com
I signed up. Love the ability to post once and have it post on all sites! Perfect for our Undy 5000 team.
I am going to sign up, this would be perfect for my small home business, good way to make an easy website that can keep people updated on the scents I have available
I would use it to connect with friends across the country.
Our family is all over the country. I’d use this to keep everybody up to date with what’s going on in our family.
keep in touch with my family in croatia and germany
I signed up and will be using Posterous as my own journal and family blog.
I’m going to use it to share photos and happenings with my family and friends.
Wow, the sign-up was easy! I just recommended it to my parents who are not very tech/computer savvy. I think they will love posterous.com! This site allows us to exchange/update our daily activities. Thank you so much for introducing me to this site!
Great Idea!
I signed up. It looks like a great way to keep up with my family and friends.
This ounds amazing. It would be a great way to have a “mommy group” with my long distance friends
I signed up. Now I can share pics with my in-laws in Sweden!!
I would use my group to share photos with my family who live out of town.
This is a good idea. I could use this to communicate more with relatives that live far away.
What a great way to share photos.
oinkmoobaa@yahoo.com
I would use it to keep in touch with my inlaws that live in another state!
Great to keep up with family, since none of them live near us.
Love to know more about this! Wonder if my deployed husband can use this on military computers?
i’ve been using posterous since my son was born 20 months ago. i’ve been recording our sings and his sounds on my iphone and uploading it on my blog and facebook account via posterous. It’s very useful and i love it. all my family who live overseas listen to his voices and our lullabies.
Thanks for the information – I’m working now to find out how I can make it work for me personally and in business.
i look forward to using this tool to share updates and photos with our family and friends — most of whom live too far away from us right now…
I signed up! I live halfway across the country from friends and family so I am hoping this will make communication easier and more fun!
I just set up a private group with some friends Excited to start!
This would be perfect to keep in touch with my family that lives on the east xoast … We are on the west!
Signed up. This looks like a great way to keep my brother updated on his nieces. And a great way to show off pictures and videos.
My husband is military. We’re stationed in Alaska and have family in Oregon, Florida, North Carolina, Washington, California, Indiana, etc. They would love to be able to keep up with our family, especially our little girl!
I could keep in better touch with my family
I acually already have a Posterous account, just don’t use it much. I can totally see using this to keep in touch with family – especially since we just moved across the country from them.
i signed up user name klp1965 and id use this for posting about our family adventures
How cool! I love that you can post a variety of different files (Microsoft Office docs, PDFs, etc.) for others to view and download, in addition to traditional messages and posts. Sounds like a great new service and a way to organize events and stay abreast of the goings-on with family, friends, and fellow parents!
I signed up on behalf of our local parenting group (parents of gifted kids). We had been using Yahoo groups and it was driving us crazy! Posterous Groups may be exactly what we have been searching for to communicate with our ever-growing group.
I will use it to keep in touch with my family.
I’d use it to keep up with long distance gfs and our book club
Lovefool827 (at) yahoo (dotcom)
I signed up. I would use this to share pics of my kids with my parents and sisters.
i have a lot of family and friends all over the usa, i would love to use this to stay in contact with them
Looks like a great way to organize “life” online
thanks
Chris Ann
I signed-up, hope to use it soon…Thanks
I signed up and once I get the time to digest I think I’m gonna love it! Lots of fun options!
Great way to keep in touch 🙂
What a great idea. We have twins and my parents and sister live far away from us. This would be a great way for them to keep in touch. I’ll be signing up next.
I’ve signed up to share pics of our family for those in other states.
Thanks for the giveaway…a good place to collaborate with others when jointly working on a PDF document.
senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com
I signed up. This looks like an easy way to share information with lots of family and friends all at once.
This would be great for keeping in touch
I signed up–this looks like a great way for my husband and me to share links with each other as we collaborate on projects!
This would be great to keep in touch with family stationed all over the world.
This looks very interesting and simple to use. WOuld use it to share with relatives for sure.
ardy22 at earthlink dot net
My best friend just became a grandmother so I’ll send her the link to Posterous so she can keep everyone updated. Thanks for the contest.
I registered, and I tried to make my first post, but I’m not sure I got it right. I’ll keep trying.
what a great tool to stay in touch
I would use it to connect with relatives and friends who live far away.
I just signed up, I am always looking for cool new ways to keep in touch, and keep my thoughts out there!