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If you need a way to get people together to contribute to a group blog AND Twitter AND Facebook Page (or any other sites we support), Posterous has an answer for you.

Today, we're launching big upgrades to our group blog system so that now you can setup a group blog to have its own profile AND its own autopost sites. We use it here on our very own blog!

If you haven't set up a group blog before, it's simple. Just go to your Manage page and follow these simple directions:

Posterous group blogs make it easy for lots of people to all post and collaborate because all it takes is an email address -- no Posterous account is needed for people to participate and get right into it. Now we've brought that power to Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else you and your group have an audience.

As always, we'd love to hear about how you're using it and how we can make Posterous even better. Email us anytime at help@posterous.com if you've got comments, questions or suggestions.

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Hey guys -- just wanted to clue you in to a small addition that a lot of you asked for, and is now available.

At post time from the bookmarklet or through the web, you can now choose specific sites from your list of autopost destinations!

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We're happy to announce that Posterous users with custom domains can now enable Facebook comments on their blogs. By doing so, Facebook users will be allowed to login and leave comments using their Facebook identities. They'll also be able to push those comments to their Facebook stream and link back to your blog.

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Just paste the link to a Poll Everywhere poll into an email, and get a simple, good looking web polling widget like this:

To get started, create a poll (it's free and unlimited for web polling when used with Posterous, no registration required) and then copy the URL from the browser, like so:

And paste it into a post or email. We'll handle the rest, and expand the link into the poll you see above. 

Questions? Let us know as usual at help@posterous.com or Poll Everywhere's GetSatisfaction page. What are you waiting for? Try it by creating a poll now!

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New mini-update: We redid the tag editor so that now you can add/edit tags from the post editor and the bookmarklet too. Just hit "More post options" or "Advanced options" and type away.

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Keeping your LinkedIn network up to speed on what you're working on is easier than ever with Posterous. Just add LinkedIn as an autopost site and we'll update your status message anytime you post to Posterous.

Add LinkedIn now

Here's a sample of how your status updates will appear on your profile:

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We've just introduced a new retweet button that makes it super easy to share interesting stuff with your Twitter followers without ever leaving Posterous.

To disable or enable retweeting, visit your manage page at http://posterous.com/manage and click the "Settings Tab". Under the "Look and Feel" section, click "More Theme Options" and check "Enable Retweet Button."

You can also add the retweet button and customize its look on your custom theme. Theme hackers can consult the retweet documentation for our theming engine here.

Big thanks to Backtype for supplying all of the realtime retweet counts.

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Hey guys... still got a bunch of bigger things in the pipe you'll hear about soon, but wanted to let you know that now you can easily embed Flickr sets and tags. Just paste the URL, e.g. from the address bar:

into a post or an email, and you'll automatically get the Flickr embedded slideshow, shown below. (Gallery courtesy razorbern aka Bernie DeChant, a personal flickr favorite, and one of the most talented photographers I have ever met.)

This works for tag pages too! If you're a flickr user, give it a try by emailing post@posterous.com now.

Got a URL or online embed you'd like auto-expanded? Fire us a note at help@posterous.com. We want to make it brain-dead simple to post everything you could possibly think of.

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We're very excited to announce the first major update to PicPosterous, our dead simple photo and video uploading app for the iPhone. New features include:

• Add photos and video to any album in the app
• Delete a single photo from an album, and it's deleted from Posterous as well
• Autopost completed albums to Facebook, Flickr, and everywhere else
• Email a link to your Posterous photo album to your friends from within the app

       

Click here to download:

PicPosterous_1.1_iPhone_app_is.zip (163 KB)

PicPosterous should be your new iPhone photo library. Add and delete photos from albums as you go, and they will always be in sync with your Posterous site. Getting your photos online has never been easier.

Click here to download it now!

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