Creeva’s World 2.0

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Where can you post by E-mail?  Well this is the eas­i­est of cross­post­ing meth­ods (espe­cially if you use Blog­ger).  There are lots of plu­g­ins for word­press or mov­able type that can send out your full post as an e-mail to another address.   In most cases you would send this to your own e-mail address so you had it for ref­er­ence.  What about send­ing it to another site entirely?  What if that site could send it to another site?  You can see how this chain can work.   If you are using Blog­ger then you can send out your post to ten e-mail addresses.   This means that your post can repli­cate like bun­nies.   What are some of the sites that can receive e-mail posts?  Let’s get into that.

The orig­i­nal Creeva’s World was hosted on Blog­ger at creeva.blogspot.com.  This is where I started writ­ing and I didn’t want to aban­don it after migrat­ing over to word­press.  This was the very first site I cross­posted to from my word­press blog.  Cross­post­ing allowed me to not aban­don my site and any read­ers that may go to that address, but I could enhance my own expe­ri­ence while keep­ing theirs the same.

Lifel­og­ger is the “cooler” blog­ging ser­vice, at least that’s what they say.   I’m not going to use any blog­ging plat­form again that I can’t cus­tomize to the fullest extent.  Word­press has spoiled me.   Though I do main­tain a site there.

Unlike some major social net­works (I’m look­ing at you Face­book and Myspace), Friend­ster does sup­port e-mailing in your blog messages.

Blogr is just another blog­ging host that accepts e-mail.  Very blog­ger like, but cross­post­ing friendly.

Ever­note is unique unlock some of the rest of these sites, Ever­note is a note­book ser­vice.   It allows you to e-mail in snip­pets (or use the desk­top appli­ca­tions) to send in infor­ma­tion that you can then share with your friends.  You can e-mail in text notes, audio, or video.

Busy Thumbs is a sim­ple moblog site that accepts posts via e-mail.

Twine is sim­i­lar to Ever­note, but it’s about col­lec­tions and com­mu­nity.   Think of it as shar­ing what you have with your friends.

Google Groups is a spot that I used to use as an online backup for my blog.   I have a pri­vate google group that only han­dles my own blog posts.   No you can’t join, not like you would want to.

I’ve just recently start cross­post­ing to an old Yahoo Group that I used to mod­er­ate.   Mostly this is because I can share my thoughts with my friends that are still in that group, but that group is essen­tially dead.   So this is the only thing that it’s around for to keep me from pulling the com­plete axe on it.

Each Day is designed to han­dle your mem­o­ries and save them so you can go back over your life.  It han­dles mul­ti­ple media for­mats but all I’m con­cerned about is the e-mail option.

Mul­ti­ply is a social net­work in the same vein as Friend­ster, Myspace, and Facebook.

Over at Vox I main­tain a page to inte­grate with their com­mu­nity.  I’ve posted in the past how vox is a unique com­mu­nity and because of that I receive unique feed­back.   They refer to their e-mail inbound ser­vice as moblogging.

I like to think of all of my blog posts as sep­a­rate doc­u­ments.   After work­ing on this for awhile, I decided to start e-mailing all of my entries to my google docs account let’s me to search and repur­pose doc­u­ments a lit­tle eas­ier then search­ing through the blog.   It’s my dump all account for doc­u­ments.  I am annoyed that I can’t e-mail blog posts to Zoho Writer for redun­dancy, they only take doc­u­ments as attachments.

When you are look­ing for a new site to cross­post to check and see if they have an option where you can post by e-mail.  Some sites may refer to this as moblog­ging.  Also remem­ber to e-mail your post to your­self so you have a backup you can control.

Oh, I use the DJ E-Mail Pub­lish plu­gin to push out posts from Wordpress.

In the next part of our cross­post­ing god series we are going to cover Blog­ger more in depth.

Pre­vi­ous Entries in The Cross­post­ing God Series:

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 1 — The Introduction

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 2 — Vox

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 3 — Live Jour­nal and Deriv­a­tive Sites

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 4 — Entry, Dis­tri­b­u­tion, and End Points

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 5 — Myspace

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 6 — RSS Feeds to Crosspost