Array ( [id] => 27990 [local_id] => 27990 [site_id] => 487 [site_url] => http://www.jangro.com/ [title] => Chubbies: Marketing with Personality [slug] => chubbies-marketing-with-personality [doe] => 2013-04-09 20:29:00 [dlu] => 2013-04-09 20:30:29 [due_date] => [user_id] => 27 [status_id] => 1 [custom_domain] => www.jangro.com [subdomain] => jangro [site_name] => Scott Jangro [description] => There's boring marketing, and there's this marketing by ChubbiesShorts.com. The name itself is, uh, memorable, but what grabbed me was the humor and language used on the website. They did a special landing page, cargoembargo.org, which features this video. 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I really enjoyed this talk with Derek who gave some really great insights into how he became so successful with his blog, which has now grown to about 100,000 subscribers in just a few years. 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You can also find Derek on Twitter at @derekhalpern [image_id] => [video_id] => 1 [global_user_id] => 27 [image_name] => [image_type] => [global_bm_id] => 27846 [short_url] => [bm_id] => 27846 [sort_order] => 0 [page_views] => 188 [comments_count] => 0 [progress_id] => 7 [assignee_id] => 27 [username] => jangro [image] => ) 1 Array ( [id] => 27489 [local_id] => 27489 [site_id] => 4 [site_url] => http://blog.shareist.com/ [title] => Importing into Shareist from Wordpress or Posterous [slug] => importing-into-shareist-from-wordpress-or-posterous [doe] => 2013-04-04 10:49:00 [dlu] => 2013-04-04 10:49:38 [due_date] => [user_id] => 27 [status_id] => 1 [custom_domain] => blog.shareist.com [subdomain] => blog [site_name] => Shareist - The Blog [description] => You've surely heard by now that Posterous is shutting down on April 30. Posterous has provided a backup export that provides all your files for you in a big zip file. There are a few different ways to get at your content in this backup. First, it is an entire web archive with index files. So you can open up the zip file, click on index.html, and view your archive right on your computer. This is great, just to get the content (text, images, videos) that you uploaded. You could even host this somewhere. But you probably want to have the option of doing something a little more with your content. In the archive is a file named wordpress_export_1.xml (I'm not sure if they break it into multiple files by incrementing the number for large posterous blogs. I'm guessing they do.) You can use this file to import into a Wordpress blog. That may suit you just fine. You can also import your content into a Shareist Notebook. Doing so, you can make your notebook public as a website, or you can connect it up to other blogs and push your content out as you see fit. You can even export it as a PDF or .mobi file. **At the very least, you'll have your stuff in a place where you can use it again someday.** Following is the simple process to import your Posterous archive, or a Wordpress export, for that matter, into a Shareist notebook. Note that in either case, the .xml file references images that are hosted elsewhere. The import process will copy them into Shareist. The import process will not copy videos. You'll need to do this before posterous shuts down their image server. I'm guessing they'll do this on April 30, though they haven't specified. Once they shut that down, you still have the images in a folder of your archive, but it'll be much more difficult to do something useful with them. [image_id] => 1 [video_id] => [global_user_id] => 27 [image_name] => [image_type] => [global_bm_id] => 27489 [short_url] => [bm_id] => 27489 [sort_order] => 0 [page_views] => 218 [comments_count] => 0 [progress_id] => 6 [assignee_id] => 27 [username] => jangro [image] => /uploads/screenshot20130326at64016pm_29314_m.png ) 1 Array ( [id] => 27301 [local_id] => 27301 [site_id] => 4 [site_url] => http://blog.shareist.com/ [title] => Shareist Insider #13: Managing writers. [slug] => shareist-insider-13-managing-writers [doe] => 2013-03-22 10:25:00 [dlu] => 2013-04-22 06:44:44 [due_date] => 2013-03-22 12:00:00 [user_id] => 27 [status_id] => 1 [custom_domain] => blog.shareist.com [subdomain] => blog [site_name] => Shareist - The Blog [description] => If you're serious about blogging and content marketing, you've probably at least considered that you should get others involved to help you out with content. But even after finding them, working with freelance writers and finding guest bloggers can be overwhelming. I know because I've hired many, and fired almost as many over the past 8 years. This is not because they couldn't do a good job, but because I simply wasn't really saving any time. The time they were supposed to save me from writing was replaced by time it takes to manage them, organize the content they create, and make sure it gets published to the right place at the right time. It really shouldn't be that way. And why do we all need to invent our own tools and process that's usually painful and tedious in the end? Now you don't. At Shareist, we're building in the tools and workflow to not only manage your own content efforts, but to easily manage the efforts of a team of writers. It's as easy as this: 1. Invite in writers to collaborate on your Shareist notebook(s) 2. Add topics and assign them to a writer, with due dates. 3. When complete, review and publish the content to your blogs, websites, newsletters, and ebooks. You have total control over what content gets published and to where. Do you manage multiple blogs? No problem, you can connect them all up, publish to them without even needing to log into them separately. I'm looking for people like you who manage writers, or **want to** have writers helping them with their blogging, to talk to about how we can help. Please take just two minutes to fill out this quick survey: **==> Click here.** Or, just hit reply to this email and let's have a conversation. You owe it to yourself to explore how you can save time by managing your writers better, or finally taking a step toward getting writers to help you out. Best, Scott p.s. I'd really appreciate it if you could fill out the survey about managing writers for your content, whether you have writers or not, your feedback is important. Here it is. 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By default, these notebooks are no longer configured as as websites. The primary purpose of Shareist Notebooks is for organizing content, for publishing in any number of places including Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Tumblr, or on Shareist. You can still configure a Notebook to be a website, but in order to keep our network as clean as possible, we are no longer having this turned on automatically. All pre-existing Notebooks remain configured as websites (without an upgrade for now, see below). Newly created notebooks need to be enabled as a website manually. To configure your Notebook as a website, go into the Notebook Settings and enable the "Is website" option. [image_id] => 1 [video_id] => [global_user_id] => 27 [image_name] => [image_type] => [global_bm_id] => 26206 [short_url] => [bm_id] => 26206 [sort_order] => 0 [page_views] => 104 [comments_count] => 0 [progress_id] => 7 [assignee_id] => 27 [username] => jangro [image] => /uploads/screenshot20130320at30334pm_28463_m.png ) 1