Ping.fm manages status updates
During last week's interview with MaryPat Kavanagh and Michele PW, the question arose about how to efficiently and effectively manage all your social networking sites. If you're participating on MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc., this can take a lot of time.
Each of the social sites mentioned above have an option for you to update your status, meaning what you are doing at that moment. Why would you do this?
Updating your status on a daily (or minute by minute) basis alerts those who follow you that you're active and participating in the conversation. But that's a lot of sites to update.
Enter ping.fm. You set up an account. Enter your log in info for each site you want to update. You enable your ping account and you're good to go. You can either update your status from your ping account or, like I do, enable the application on your Facebook account and update from inside Facebook. When I do that, my status update is immediately posted on the accounts I've set up: MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Ping.fm is in beta and you need an invitation to get set up. If you want an invite code, post a comment here and I'll send it to you.
If you're using ping.fm, what do you think? Is it working for you?
I'd love a code if one is still available. But also, would welcome hearing: now you've had a couple of weeks to work with it - are you still finding it useful? Is this sort of integration really useful?
Posted by: Michael Donn | Friday, May 16, 2008 at 06:48 AM
good tips
Posted by: faraby | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 04:17 PM
I'd love to give ping.fm a try. Thanks in advance!
Posted by: WEB TASARIMI | Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I like your post and the whole idea of being more efficient and having 1 central interface to update all the various sites.
Please send me an invite.
Thanks,
ALexander
Posted by: alex-social media guy | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 06:37 PM
I'd love to give ping.fm a try. Thanks in advance!
Rob
Posted by: Rob Fields | Monday, May 05, 2008 at 12:33 PM
I'd like to try ping.fm. May I have an invite?
Posted by: Laurel-Rain Snow (Lorraine Frost Sandone) | Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 07:39 AM
Yes, I be most grateful for an invite to join "ping" - and thank you so much for the information! Also... what do you guys think about "Flock" web browser? I'm on it and I love it. I find it faster than i.e. and I really use the bells and whistles.
Posted by: Judy Rodman | Friday, May 02, 2008 at 05:51 AM
I'ld really like to try ping.fm myself and put my thoughts regarding it here afterwards :-) Can you count me in? *g* Thanks for the offer :-)
Posted by: Hans-Joerg Stangor (ME) | Friday, May 02, 2008 at 01:13 AM
I'd like to try it out. May I have an invite please?
Posted by: Shaun | Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 11:30 PM