![]() ![]() Authors can be assigned responsibility for a specific date or recurring dates. It will send you an email reminder on the day of, the day before, or two days before the post is scheduled, depending on your settings. Posthaste also includes an editorial calendar where you and others on your team can schedule posts, assign authors, and add notes about planned or potential topics. (It currently integrates only with WordPress blogs.) ![]() If you do not require someone else’s review, this publishes it directly to your blog. If your law firm requires review and approval prior to publication, this submits the post to that process. When you finish drafting the post, you can save it as a draft or click Submit to send the post. If you would prefer an animated GIF, Posthaste also lets you pull in images from GIPHY. From within Posthaste, you can search the image service Shutterstock, select an image, edit it if need be, and insert it into your post. You might also want to add another image to help illustrate the theme of your post. Of the tweets that appear in the search results, you can drag and drop any of them into your draft and they will show up in the final post. To the right of the authoring window, you can search Twitter for your topic. Perhaps the issue is also being discussed on social media and you would like to include some of that in your post. ![]() Now you can write your commentary around the post. It also pulls in an image from the article. A blog-authoring window opens with the quote inserted, along with the link to the quote source. Highlight the quote in the story and click the bookmarklet that Posthaste adds to your browser. There is a particular passage in the story that you would like to quote and discuss in your post. You come across a story about a legal development that you consider significant and would like to blog about. Let’s say you are a lawyer sitting at your computer in the morning reading the news. Called Posthaste, it makes it easy for an author to quickly assemble a post using quotes, tweets and images. For busy legal professionals, time may be the single-greatest obstacle to blogging, or at least to blogging regularly.Ī new application aims to make it easier for legal professionals to draft blog posts and keep to a regular blogging schedule. It takes time to come up with ideas for posts, to research the ideas, and to write the posts. Come to think of it, I don’t remember the last time I heard anyone say chop-chop.Įxcept when ordering a gin and tonic, of course.Blogging takes time. And hardly anybody goes hell for leather nowadays. I haven’t heard anyone say posthaste for a long time. I had a head-strong dog once that made an exasperating career out of escaping our back yard and running away “hell-bent for leather.” I admit that I harbored a few dark thoughts about her future from time to time. Hell-bent for leather refers to a cow that was so hard to handle that the wrangler considered slaughtering it and converting it into leather. The former refers to an arduous walk through rugged terrain, one that usually destroyed the man’s shoes. “Hell for leather,” on the other hand, is often confused with hell-bent for leather. “Hey, sweetheart, bring me another gin and tonic, chop-chop!” “Chop-chop” itself would probably have never gained a foothold if Canton hadn’t been flooded with English sailors who found the phrase useful. Chop-chop comes from Canton Chinese meaning, hurry-hurry.Ĭanton, of course, was a major Chinese seaport and the eastern terminus of the ancient Silk Road, a mercantile travel route that brought silk and other valuable commodities from China and Japan to Europe. Synonyms for posthaste include apace, briskly, double quick, fleetly, chop-chop and hell for leather. Shakespeare liked the phrase and used it in a scene from “Richard II”: “Old John of Gaunt hath sent post haste to entreat your majesty to visit him.” In another play, Cassio says to Othello, “the Duke requires your post haste appearance.” Maybe to encourage his horse to greater speed if a Comanche war party was hot on his heels. I can’t imagine that any of those hard-riding mailmen ever uttered the phrase, posthaste, however. We did the same thing later in America and called it the Pony Express. Delivering an urgent letter back then required galloping through the dark of night and changing horses frequently to get the job done “posthaste.” A courier on horseback was called a post. What antique chapter of language history did a phrase like “post haste” come from? Someone asked me to do something the other day, and then suggested I do it “posthaste.” No way could I let that go unchallenged. ![]()
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