[p2pu-webcraft] Using DropBox.com and ifttt.com with WebCraft Courses

[Dan Diebolt]

The p2pu.com platform unfortunately does not allow you to upload files for
any purpose. This is a major shortcoming which drives course content to user
external resources. It is a shortcoming that has to be fixed.

In the meantime courses might consider using Dropbox (dropbox.com) to share
files among course participants and a service called If This Then That (
ifttt.com) which allows a variety of generalized cron-like services. Using
ifttt you can get notified of new Dropbox files being added through a
variety of communication channels, have your posterous blog entry routed to
Dropbox or any number of a extremely clever services. ifttt is a pretty
amazing service that could be used to great advantage with P2PU course UNTIL
SUCH TIME AS THE P2PU PLATFORM SUPPORTS HOSTING USER CONTRIBUTED COURSE
CONTENT.

If you sign up for Dropbox please consider using my personal invitation
below as it will earn both you and me an additional 250GB of free storage
(up to 8GB) for each referral in addition to the 2GB Dropbox gives your for
free:

Dan's Personal Invitation to Try Dropbox
http://db.tt/MG2lWal

Since today it is Talk Like a Pirate Day let me conclude with this:

Avast! You swabbies an' sprogs ortin' ta find yer own furner t' store yer
uploaded booty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day
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