Public group sites with post by moderation

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January 7, 2009

Last month we rolled out group sites, the easiest way to have multiple contributors on a single blog. Just add contributors by email address, no accounts needed.

Today we take that a step further by allowing you to create public blogs that *anyone* can post to by email. Just turn on the "post by moderation" option in your site settings, then anyone can email post@sitename.posterous.com. This is a great way to create a group site or public forum.

Some examples:
Share recipes and cooking tips at Posterous Recipes by emailing post@recipes.posterous.com
Car talk? Apple talk? Email post@cars.posterous.com or post@apple.posterous.com

Create your own public Posterous site now!

Posted by Sachin Agarwal

Comments (12)

Jan 07, 2009

Matt Hoult said...

It just gets better and better. Thanks guys!

Jan 07, 2009

anthony marco said...

lovehatetunes.com is now a group site. check it out and post tune or two.

Jan 07, 2009

S K Prasad Iyer said...

U guys beat the expectations all the time. Before this I did not even think I would need such a feature. Awesome work.

Jan 07, 2009

Srinivasan R said...

Where do I see a list of all public group sites?

Jan 07, 2009

Sachin Agarwal said...

You can't see a list of all sites that allow post by moderation. We're leaving it up to site owners to promote their sites since each might want the scope of their site to be different.

One person might set up dogs.posterous.com for anyone in the world to chat about dogs. But someone else might setup davesbirthday.posterous.com so that all attendees to an event can post photos to a single place.

Jan 08, 2009

Rany Keddo said...

great idea!

Jan 09, 2009

John Johnston said...

Great, I tried a wee post to the Posterous Recipes blog and when it showed up posterous seems to have figured out and pointed to my posterous blog and used my profile pic, maximum effect for minimum effort on my part.

Jan 11, 2009

Daniel Schildt said...

Sounds great. I hope this will increase people's interests related to Posterous. Certainly great news. Keep on improving service to make things even better. :)

Feb 25, 2009

juha meronen said...

Group sites and adding contributors is a great feature. I am just wondering some points. How can a contributor, who does not have an own posterous, add her picture and name on the site? All the password things in the email are pointing to an own posterous with URL etc. Is it also on purpose that this kind of "email only" contributors don't have their name shown on the main posterous page alonside with their posts? Thanks!

Feb 25, 2009

Garry Tan said...

Contributors can add their own pictures and names quite easily by signing up for an account.

We can't give out personal information unless the user opts in, so that's why we only show "posted by email" for those users until they sign up for an account.

Feb 26, 2009

juha meronen said...

Fair enough, thanks. BTW, if the same "posted by email" post is shown on the My Posterous page, the email addresses or rather the names are shown. Can be it is only for me as the owner of that posterous, don't know.

Mar 10, 2009

giolicious said...

This is great post party tradition, write more post for the week

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