Looks like no matter which way I try avoid writing about social media sites.. I am dragged to blog more about them. You see how far this social media thing has taken us. How deep this has entered into our blood, veins and arteries.
On this post I want to answer another burning question that many of my readers have asked and i,e How To Manage So Many Social Media Sites At Once.
You see the problem with social media sites is.. As long as you are not on them, You are considered ignorant( and sometimes shy). Once you get on them but don’t keep your act current, you will be termed as lazy or laid back.
I can give a 100 lessons on how to make facebook work for yourself and for your business. Now don’t ask me how many of them I use in my business. The answer is hardly any.
And the reason is simple.. I JUST DON’T HAVE TIME.
Not that I don’t have the intent. My heart is there in place always trying to share, learn from all my friends and their extended networks.
But.. I JUST CANNOT MANAGE MY TIME ACROSS SO MANY NETWORKS.
In the process of seaching a solution I came across two different tools that I found to be worth talking about..
I am currently using both of them extensively to post my status to mulitple social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, bebo, Plurk, Meemi, Myspace, Pownce, Plaxo, tumblr.. and many more.
The first tool is www.HelloTxt.com. You can make one post on Hellotxt.com and your posts will show up across all the networks that you pre-configured on Hellotx
Ping.Fm is the second tool that pretty much does the samething. I had problems using Hellotxt.com for sometime but Ping.fm has proven to be reliable and has higher uptime.
Now here is the thing. Just don’t read this post and pick one over the other. Use Both. Higher Uptime in Social Netowrking world is a bad thing..)-
The problem with tools like these or social networking sites for that matter is, they all have underestimated or overestimted their growth. No one has clear estimates on projection on their growth numbers. So if anyone of them experiences astronomical growth(like Twitter) the chances are they will have down times.
So More Downtime means..the company is viable. Chances are it will stay around.