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Ping.fm Do I need that too? Why?
By Brian | October 19, 2009
Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!
Is adding Ping to your arsenal of Online Social Media tools really needed? I mean you still have to log into each one of your social sites (or use a third party addon, or a mobile addon) to reply to the great newest bit of information you are sharing, right? Yes, that does seem to be the case with Ping.fm
So why bother signing up if you have to open up all your social apps in new windows and tabs? For one really good reason, if for no other reason that this. You can login to your ping account and post a link back to your new product, service, special your running, event your holding, picture you just uploaded of you and your favorite celebrity, etc. and it hits all your other online accounts that you have connected to it. Bamb! One post and out to over 40 different sites*! *if you have an account at all 40 sites they currently offer.
Ping does just what the name sounds like it does. For those in the know, pings in blogging are: an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. Source
So when you ping make sure you are doing so in way that requires little to no replys via the onslaught of social media outlets of which you are a memeber. Think of it as simply Link Dropping
Happy Pinging
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Topics: technology | 2 Comments »
November 28th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Oops! I dropped my link….now where did it go??? Hmmm….
J/K….I really liked this article…I always wondered what the heck I would use ping for and what its all about. Have a great night, Brian!
thanks again,
Karen
November 30th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Great to see you are reading and learning about social media.
Happy to help where I can.