Social Media Shortcut — Posting to Twitter, FaceBook and a Dozen Other Sites by Email

26 Jul
2010


One of the biggest com­plaints about using social net­work­ing is wasted time. It takes a lot of key­strokes to get around to all the sites that are so pop­u­lar these days: FaceBook, Twitter, Plurk, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and a dozen more. But now you can post to almost all of them at once.

Just fol­low these sim­ple 7 steps:

  1. Go to ping​.fm and cre­ate an account (it’s free).
  2. Once you get your account, go to the Dashboard and you will see a long list of places that ping will post to. The first one on the list is Twitter, so we’ll use that one as an exam­ple.
  3. Click on Twitter. A new screen will come up. Simply enter your Twitter user­name and pass­word. Click the boxes beside Status Updates and Microblogging. Hit Submit. You are now set up to post to Twitter.
  4. Follow the same steps for any other sites you belong to that are on the list. If you sign up for post­ing to FaceBook, for exam­ple, when you send the email, the new post will also come up in the FaceBook sta­tus line. Cool, right?
  5. Now that you’ve got your ser­vices set up, go to the top menu bar and click on Settings. Make sure the box beside Twitter and your other ser­vices are checked, giv­ing ping per­mis­sion to post there.
  6. On the Ping home page at the lower right, you’ll see a list of ser­vices. Click on Posting By Email. There you will find your secret post­ing address. It has some crazy let­ters then @ping.fm.
  7. Put this email into your Contacts list as though it were a per­son, and name this phan­tom per­son Posting Address. Whenever you want to post to Twitter, FaceBook, or where ever, just write an email to Posting Address-​no sub­ject line, and no other words like sig­na­ture or con­tact info-​just the email address and your one-​line Tweet. Then hit SEND.

Just that quick, you’ve posted to as many as 2 dozen places with one key­stroke.

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Rosey Dow is a cast­ing direc­tor. She casts the per­fect clients who would take your busi­ness to the next level. http://​LetsGetRealmarketing​.com

Author: Rosey Dow
Article Source: EzineArticles​.com
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  • http://www.twitter.com/mdemmick M. Drew Emmick

    This is a great tool. Tim Ferriss rec­om­mended the ser­vice a while back. Thank you for pro­vid­ing us with instruc­tions on how to set this up.

  • http://www.literarynobody.com/ Literary Nobody

    Thank you for the com­ment. This def­i­nitely a great tool and a great way to stream­line post­ing updates. I’m glad that I was able to share this great arti­cle.

  • http://yesterdayspoem.blogspot.com vizion­heiry

    I’m sur­prised Tim Ferriss didn’t have some­one else rec­om­mend the ser­vice — out­sourc­ing at its best?!?



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