Managing social media... with one app

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Permalink Reply by Stephen James on December 3, 2008 at 2:56pm

I use FeedHub for RSS management. FriendFeed for aggregating aggregation of feeds from multiple sites. You might try this post for 100 Social management of items. It's a bit overwhelming.

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 3, 2008 at 4:53pm

First, what social media platforms are you wanting to manage?

Here are a couple of suggestions for you:

Check out Ping.fm to update multiple statuses at once.

Also, check out the Flock browser. It is the social browser. I'm so addicted to Firefox that I can't switch over, but it's pretty cool.

If you blog and use Twitter, you can use TwitterFeed to send a message to your Twitter acct each time you blog, which eliminates the step of you having to promote a new blog post on Twitter, which can also send a message to your Facebook and FriendFeed if it's integrated.

Hope these few tips help!

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Permalink Reply by Taulbee Jackson on December 3, 2008 at 10:39pm

If you're a Windows user, there is something called 8hands that might help: http://8hands.com/. Also, Brian Wyrick pointed me to this article on Lifehacker about something called atomkeep: http://lifehacker.com/399825/atomkeep-syncs-your-social-network-pro...

I am a Mac user so I haven't tried 8hands yet . . . and I'm too busy updting all my social networks, so I haven't tried atomkeep yet either! : ) but both look promising.

Flock is most definitely a cool browser, but lacking in stability, from my experience.

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Permalink Reply by Raquel Richardson on December 4, 2008 at 9:21am

From a first glance, 8 hands appears to be what I'm looking for... I'll test it out. Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 4, 2008 at 9:58pm

Let me know how your 8 Hands experience goes. I downloaded it after Taulbee's suggestion, and I got an unexpected error with each acct I tried to add.

If you don't have much luck with it, you should check into Digsby. It handles quite a few networks... I've used it and liked it.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Magan on December 4, 2008 at 9:52pm

I second what Nicki said the flock browser is great and runs on the Firefox engine.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on December 6, 2008 at 12:17pm

Raquel,

Yes, please update us on what you've found for managing your networks. As I discuss these ideas with others here, I'm suddenly feeling overwhelmed with the idea of keeping all of these networks in order. Who did I post to? Did I visit that site today? Which forum was that on? Yadda yadda yadda....

Chris
www.gonink.com

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Permalink Reply by Raquel Richardson on December 9, 2008 at 8:26am

I have been trying to download the 8 hands to no success.... seemed good but not if you cannot even get it started!

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 9, 2008 at 9:10am

Raquel,

I've already downloaded it and uninstalled it... Check out www.digsby.com. It's the same concept, but I liked it. I am also investigating a new Joomla component that would be included in our websites that incorporated nearly all of the social networks that we use, except of course Ning, I believe. I'll keep you posted.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce LaDuke on December 9, 2008 at 8:39pm

http://www.spokeo.com/

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 9, 2008 at 9:42pm

That is a really cool app! Thanks for sharing that!

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Permalink Reply by Bruce LaDuke on December 11, 2008 at 9:05pm

No problem...glad you like it.

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