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?

Comments

[Shaun]

I'd like to try it out. May I have an invite please?

[Hans-Joerg (ME)]

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 :-)

[Judy Rodman]

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.

[Laurel-Rain Snow (Lorraine Frost Sandone)]

I'd like to try ping.fm. May I have an invite?

[Rob Fields]

I'd love to give ping.fm a try. Thanks in advance!

Rob

[alex-social media guy]

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

[WEB TASARIMI]

I'd love to give ping.fm a try. Thanks in advance!

[faraby]

good tips

[Michael Donn]

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?

[Sylvia Warren]

I'd love a beta code for ping and would also like to know if you're finding it as useful as you initially indicated.
Thanks!