Managing Your Social Media Presence

As social media continues to emerge, many professionals are curious on what is the best way to manage these various networks. For posting updates I have found ping.fm (http://ping.fm) an invaluable resource. I use it to manage updates across all my networks including Twitter (http://twitter.com/spf13), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/steve.francia),LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefrancia), Flicker, FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/stevefrancia) and more. Here’s the skinny on how I utilize this resource.

If you’re not familar with ping.fm it enables one to post updates to one or many different websites though email, web, IM, SMS and widgets. Ping.fm also supports images so they can be sent via any of those methods that support images. One of my favorite features of Ping.fm is it’s ability to cross post or selectively post to groups. It does this in an elegant manner through using groups. To send an update to a group, all one needs to do is prepend my update with a #groupname and it will only update those groups.