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ActiveRain limits number of posts exported to Posterous?
Posted on July 9, 2010 by Diane in 5 life, blogging
Time to walk?
Recently, my friend Jay Thompson removed his posts from ActiveRain. Since I respect him and try to follow (about a mile behind because I can’t keep up) in his footsteps, I read his reasons for this pretty carefully.
I have had mixed feelings about ActiveRain too. For me, it was the first place I blogged about real estate (I had personal blogs elsewhere). I felt – and feel – a sense of community there. I am no heavy hitter; I contribute – in fits and starts – when I have something to say and when I remember to. Being grandfathered in and seeing reminders about refreshing content lit little fires under my feet to continue to contribute to the community. One post I had written a couple of years ago about fireworks in Massachusetts, when updated, continued to be a traffic driver to the company blog (and drew traffic in its small way to ActiveRain).
Then a friend asked me to help move her posts from ActiveRain to Posterous. I tried repeatedly to do this, but was stuck at being able to only import the first 10 posts. I asked for help and this was the result:
Jul 03, 2010Diane Guercio said…Is there any reason that the import would consistently stop after 10 posts? …Jul 09, 2010Joe Spake said…It’s happening to me too, Diane. It stops after 10 posts. I sent an inquiry tohelp@posterous.comJul 09, 2010Joe and Jo: It looks like AR has implemented some changes to limit what we can grab. We’re looking into it and will let everyone know when we have an update. If there is an appropriate place where you can let other AR users know about this change, we’d appreciate it. Thanks for your patience!
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Changes to limit what people can export from their own blogs? What gives? Is this a mistake?
Maybe it comes back to this business-personal thing. We have all met each other, we speak and share, we feel like friends. Then this pesky business stuff changes the deal. I think, particularly for real estate professionals, the boundaries between business and personal are so blurred that they seem non-existent.
As Michael Corleone said in the Godfather, “”Tom, don’t let anyone kid you. It’s all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of sh*t every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it’s personal as hell.” (thanks to Hubspot for providing the quote I was looking for)
It’s all personal.
Follow-up from Brad Andersohn (on Agent Genius):
July 9, 2010 at 4:45 pm Joe – we have no way of limiting importing posts to posterous or any other site for that matter. Our export feature is in an xml format and includes all posts written by a member on our network. Any limitation to the import process you mention would be controlled by the site you are importing to. Just fyi…
Follow-up from Posterous:
Rich Pearson just commented on the post “Now’s the perfect time to move up from Active Rain to Posterous ” on The Official Posterous Posterous:
Sorry – I was given some inaccurate information. It looks like this was a problem on our end. It should be completely fixed in the next 20 minutes.
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Quite a stir going on re Jay, AR, etc. I visit and post on AR occasionally now, but am always torn because (thank goodness) of my own websites.
Enjoyed this post!!
For me the issue is control. Always has been, always will be. Well, that and ROI – I am always looking for the most bang for my buck. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone tried to sell me something saying, “Just one closing will pay for the [whatever it is].” Me, I am always the one on the “Free” side of a Freemium offering.
But I also understand companies trying to stay afloat. I was researching newly formed companies the other day, and it is amazing how many go under in a few years.
LOL! There is always a stir somewhere! The real estate community is like living in a small town.
Once again I get my real estate scoop from the smiling girl in Mass. great points Di, especially about things we create being personal. It’s been my experience that when someone tells you that something is “just business” it means they’re about to do something unpleasant to you , and they need to distance themselves first.
BTW how many points do I get for commenting here?
That’s so true, what you say about the business thing – and anytime someone tacks the word “just” on there that’s the second red flag going up.
But seriously, I have to develop some kind of badge or point system. How can intangibles be so damned motivating?
As of 9:30 CDT this morning 7/10, I still can only import 20 posts from AR into posterous.
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I will have to say that the reason I like having a self-hosted WordPress blog is because of my issue with control. I do also have a posterous account, in addition to my AR account, but have serious trust issues with any third party system. In other words, no matter what it was, I would have a plan B because you never know when the rules are going to change.
Well, my switch from AR outside blog to WP is complete, thanks to your help Diane. I NEVER understood the point system at AR or why anyone would care about them. Can the points pay my mortgage? I think agents need to realize that AR is great for networking and sharing with peers, but if you want to reach consumers you need to control your content and make sure that said content is pertinent to the consumer.
Thanks for the update!
I will give you the same thing I gave Bill Lublin when he commented. Click here!