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CommentSaturday, November 15, 2008

Update Your Status Across Dozens of Social Media Sites

Ping.fm Does Just That

Logo Once you start "living" in more than one social media space, the idea of updating your status across multiple Web sites gets tedious fast.

However, Ping.fm is a tool that can update your status across dozens of popular social media sites. Once you sign up for Ping.fm you'll be able to add your login credentials for a host of popular social media sites. The list keeps growing, but it includes such heavyweights as:

- Twitter
- MySpace
- Pownce
- Plaxo
- Facebook

And a couple dozen others. It's also a great resource for you to decide which new sites to check out.

Ping.fm will automatically blast to all the social media sites you've set up, but you can include some "triggers" that will send (or refrain from sending) your updates to select sites.

The only frustration I've had using Ping.fm -- which isn't their fault -- is that LinkedIn cuts their status updates at a lot shorter than the common 140 characters. I've had more than one person alert me that I made a mistake with my last LinkedIn update.

Come on, LinkedIn, get with the program!

That small complaint aside, Ping.fm is an essential tool for any self-respecting social media marketer. Now, if I could only get something like Ping.fm to help manage my real world life.

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About the author:
Rich Brooks is president of flyte new media, a Web site design and Internet marketing company in Portland, Maine. Flyte works with small businesses to build professional Web sites that often include e-commerce, Flash and content management systems. They promote their clients' sites through search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, business blogs and social media. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/therichbrooks.

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