How journalists can use Posterous to send on-the-spot photos, videos and more to the Internet

If you have a mobile phone that can send email, and your phone also can take photos or videos, you can use the site http://posterous.com to send photos, videos and short articles directly to the Internet - including to Twitter, and Facebook Pages, two of the most popular way to share info today.

Remember the plane that landed safely in the Hudson River inNew York City last year? People first heard about that after someone on a ferry going to help the ditched plane posted a picture to a service called Twitpic. Twitpic then automatically sent a message to that person's Twitter account, and the news spread very quickly from there.

Would you like to be able to share photos and videos that quickly if you're ever right in front of breaking news? If so, read on.

I recommend using Posterous - you're reading this on my personal Posterous blog right now. If you take a photo on your phone, or shoot a video, or record some sound (maybe an interview), and then send an email with that photo or video or sound clip attached to post@posterous.com, then a new blog with that photo or video or sound clips as your first post will be created. You'll be able to log in and change the name of the blog to something you like.

One example of this is a series of posts I did for PARKing Day, a day when people set up creative or hipster-corporate displays in car parking spaces around Brisbane. The series includes sets of photos, and three interviews.

This video is of a singer called Anna Weatherup playing at The Troubadour in Fortitude Valley.

You can tell the Posterous service to automatically send your posts to Facebook and to Twitter. You can also tell it to send photos automatically to Flickr, videos automatically to YouTube, and so on. And it can also send out links to new posts to your Twitter account, to the wall on your Facebook profile, and to any Facebook Fan Pages you run.

If this sounds like something you want to do, start sending those emails from your phone today! If you're using an iPhone, there's a free Posterous app in the App Store.

Posted via email from @djackmanson