I've been blogging for quite awhile now. I started with Livejournal way back when, moved to Blogger, and then to Wordpress. As my needs to share different types of media grew, and the methods changed from purely desktop to whenever/wherever, I recognized that I needed a little something extra to help with the process. I'm not a super-smart coding type; its just never been my "thing" (although I wish it was), so I hated to be bothered with embed codes and all the weird nuances of posting multiple media types within an online journal. Nothing quite seemed to fit me right.

And then I stumbled across Posterous. One email is all it took to get started. This confused me: every other blogging service required some variation of a maze to get started, some intensive process before you were up and running. That home page threw me off completely. All I needed to do was send an email and I was up and running?

And I was in love.

I'm an incredibly mobile person. I work all day as a graphic artist & videographer. My wife is a photographer and I work with her on shoots where an assistant is needed. I also use a handful of different online services: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, MobileMe. At the time I switched to Posterous, we were also on the verge of welcoming our first child to the world. I wanted so desperately to find a way to share quickly because nearly everyone we know is online in the form of Facebook or Twitter, including my grandparents. I needed a quick way to share everything at once, across different networks, without the hassle of telling it to do so. More than that, I just needed it to work; I didn't want to worry about posts going missing or somehow not spreading like they're supposed to throughout my various networks. And that's what Posterous does. It just works.

The night our daughter was born, I was armed to the teeth with my iPhone, a Canon 7D, and my laptop. In the moments when mother and child were asleep, I worked on pooling everything together to send out to the masses or friends & family who couldn't be there as part of that journey's end. I couldn't imagine using another service to send one message out to reach everyone. That first post consisted of an image, a few words, and a link to the video I threw together on Vimeo. Being able to spend five minutes on an entry that would reach hundreds of our friends & family was such a brilliant experience. Posterous knew that the Vimeo link was a video and automagically embedded it into the post, no hassle involved. And now with a seven-month old who is continually finding new ways to move, posting on the go is more important than ever. No more waiting till the end of the day to share a new photo or video; I take two minutes to email something to my Posterous blog and its instantly shared to almost everyone we know.

Our business is also starting to take off, and one of the newer ways that photographers make their voices heard is through blogging about their experiences. Its a brilliant way to share what services we offer, to instantly post something from an event we're at (as its happening!), and a great humanizer. One thing we try to do with our photography business is bring in the personal element, that every shoot is unique and different, especially when it comes to weddings, and blogging, in simple, quick bits, is a perfect way to do that. We also post about stuff going on with us at home. Whilst not intensely personal by any means, giving both clients and potential clients the occasional peek behind the curtain has been a wonderful way to tell people who we are and why we do what we do. And its a necessity where we live and work. Montgomery isn't exactly a massive, bustling metropolis,  but there is a borderline over-saturation of photographers in the area, and blogging is one way to set ourselves apart and make us distinguishable from other photographers. [link to blog: http://littleacorn.posterous.com]

I'm a mover and I don't light long for any one internet service for a particular amount of time. I must admit, I've looked at other blogging sites since I joined Posterous, like Tumblr, Typepad, even a return to Wordpress for self-hosting my blog, and I've found they all come up wanting when compared to Posterous. Its so dead simple easy to work with, and it just works. I feel I'll be with Posterous for a long, long time.