If you are running an online business and are not professionally active in social networking sites, then you're surely missing out on huge marketing and interacting platform. On the other hand, if you have a strong presence in several social networking sites and are devoting a lot of time juggling multiple profiles, then you are missing out on productivity.
Ping.fm is a solution for people who fall in the second category, it allows its users to update more than 50 sites at a snap. A simple and free service that integrates almost all major social networking sites, in one click users can save lot of time by avoiding logging in and updating numerous sites.
"Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don't have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it" the founders of Ping.fm explain.
Here's how it works
You simply need "Sign Up" by providing an email address and choosing a password, in the next step it will provide you with a huge list of social networking sites. You need to choose the ones that you are active in and will have to individually add details of each sites allowing ping.fm to pull all the information together. You will then be taken to a dashboard where you can see a message box, type in whatever you want the world to know and voila...you're done.
It also provides you with plenty of services and tools like email, SMS, Google Reader, AOL Instant Messaging, GTalk, Skype, iPhone and Blackberry App etc. Apart from social networking sites, you can update your website or your blog as well.
Therefore, you can instantly access Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Xanga, Blogger, Wordpress, Delicious, Yammer, Flickr, Yahoo, Google Buzz, AIM status, Facebook Page, My Yearbook, Photobucket, Tagged, Hi5 and many more from anywhere to anywhere.
Ping.fm is not just another social networking site, instead it brings them all together in a way that it benefits the users by saving up on a lot of time. While Pinging, do remember to stick with the 140 characters thumb rule, 'coz you don't wanna miss out micro-blogging on Twitter.
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What a great idea. Thanks for for sharing. I now have an RSS subscription to this site and there is always good information to be found.
Hi Ashley, thank you for subscribing with us and for the kind words.
This is an excellent tool for anyone trying to attract readers to their blog without annoying them, but simply updating their social networks with the latest post! (It can be set up to automatically detect a new post from your blog and send it out to your services.)
I use it daily for not only doing that, but simply sharing any interesting article or updating my status on several services at once.
It is a great tool indeed, time saver for marketers and business owners. It also allows you to shorten URL without visiting an additional shortening site like bit.ly.
It is a great account manager and is a great alternative to using notepad to store all of your account in one. Thanks for sharing this great tool. It means a lot to simplify my life ad make working online a bit better.