L&S Unscripted

Today’s webinar was led by Miles and April, who did a great job of showing the uses of social media tools for both advanced and neophyte social media users. The ‘tools’ they spoke of were different software applications that make it possible to connect your different social networking sites all into one convenient browser.

If someone has multiple Twitter accounts (for personal and business uses) it would be helpful for them to use Twhirl, Ping.fm, Tweetie, Twitterific, Splitweet or Nambu -just to name a few! All of these tools are programmed a little differently so it is important to try a few and see what will work best for your particular needs. Personally, I only have one Facebook and Twitter account – which I’m still getting used to- so I would use Tweetdeck or FriendFeed, and for my phone, TwitterBerry or TinyTwitter since they all only accommodate one twitter account.

To get specific on some of the mentioned connectors, Twhirl displays your Twitter stream as a single column, the replies are color coded, the Twhirl screen dims when you are switching between applications, you can use multiple twitter accounts on it and it integrates with ping.fm. What is ping.fm? It is a tool that allows you to connect up to 40 different social networking sites together to be able to send out one status reply, instead of writing separate ones for all of the different sites you are on.  TweetDeck connects Facebook and Twitter together and can help you categorize and organize your followers into columns to give a dashboard display of the news feeds from both. Twitterific is a great application that works on the iphone and can support multiple twitter accounts. FriendFeed pulls from multiple social networks and creates a custom live stream of your daily updates, tweets, videos and social bookmarking. Even if one of your friends does not accept to be on FriendFeed you can make them an ‘imaginary friend’ and still see all of their updates.

Using these connecting tools is the most time saving way to stay connected with as many friends or followers as you want. There is software for any type of social networking user, whether it is someone who would like to have phone updates, computer updates, or even updates on others updates, there is a tool for you to make your social networking easier. And with all the free time you will gain with adopting one of these tools, is time you can use trying out a new connector or new social networking site!

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