Has anyone heard of or possibly even use Ping?
You know how much time it takes to keep up with updating several social network sites sooo...
Apparently Ping can work wonders with multiple social networking sites some of which include MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn,
Twitter, Jaiku, Delicious, Friendster, Plaxo and lots more. (You must first create separate accounts at whichever sites you choose.)

Here's how it works, Go to http://www.Ping.fm and open an account. Then decide which
social networking sites you want to receive the information you
post to Ping.
You can post your message using AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, Windows Live
Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or
email. Then it looks as if with one fell swoop...your single post on Ping goes out to all the other sites you designate.

It might not be a great idea to include LinkedIn, because a lot of the more personal
information you post on Facebook or Twitter isn't
appropriate for LinkedIn, which is strictly for business
networking and works differently but this definitly looks like it could be helpful in keeping up and not spending hours doing it.

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Cheryl Richey
Carte Blanche Assistance, LLC
Virtual Assistance...Creating Time for You!

Hi Cheryl,
Thanks for posting this! I just replied to another thread asking for a service like this and then ran across your post as well.

Have you been using Ping for yourself or for clients? What do you think of it so far?

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Ping and other social feed platforms can be helpful and useful. I've thought about looking into using one. But I've also read on Chris Brogan's blog that he advises against using these as it goes it against the whole "personalization" and connecting that social media is supposed to be about.

I've also seen numerous people using it so I don't think people are really all that offended and I know that Scoble (another SM great) is a big fan of FriendFeed. So clearly there are just different schools of thought out there.

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

Originally Posted by JKVirtualOffice

Ping and other social feed platforms can be helpful and useful. I've thought about looking into using one. But I've also read on Chris Brogan's blog that he advises against using these as it goes it against the whole "personalization" and connecting that social media is supposed to be about. I've also seen numerous people using it so I don't think people are really all that offended and I know that Scoble (another SM great) is a big fan of FriendFeed. So clearly there are just different schools of thought out there.

This was exactly what I was going to ask about - it seems that if you use something like this - it would totally seem - automated. On the other hand if you're doing it strictly for marketing purposes - you may have a different type of demographic with each one of your social networks -yet you want them to get the same information. I know it would be great for a client that I have on so many social networks. Great post

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Tonja
VA/Ebusiness Marketing Consultant