Ping.fm is a super tool that allows you to post to multiple Social networks and Blog services at once. Either through their interface or via email. So instead of say, updating your FaceBook status, then logging into Twitter and updating there too, you can update all at once. Ping.fm has recently added some great new features. here is the tool in a nutshell.
1. Register https://ping.fm/signup/ and fill out the form
2. Hook up to your Social Networks
(the output)
After you register you will be taken to the dashboard for the first time. You will notice a list of common social networks and micro-blogs on the left. To hook Ping.fm up to one of your other services, click and provide the prompted information. user name and password or url typically. You can then select, micro-blog, status or blog as check boxes.
If you decide to set up ping.fm so that you can update your FaceBook Status from it, you will need to install the Ping.fm FaceBook app on your Facebook page. Once you install the app on FaceBook you will also be able use Ping.fm right from your FaceBook page if you desire.
3.Setting up your Services
(your input)
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Ping.fm lets you post from many different inputs, as you can see here.
Now, everything you type to the Ping.fm bot gets posted to the places you set up in the first step! What if you want to have more control over where you send things?
4. Triggers
(what goes where)
You can direct where posts go easily. Ping.fm doe this with triggers.
Click on the trigger link at the bottom of the services/tools list.
You will notice that Ping.fm now asks you to select a ‘Method’ when creating a trigger. Methods allow you to specify what sort of post you are making. The three options are, Status Updates, Micro-Blog and Blog Post. This feature makes it possible to update only your status messages across all your networks, or post a blog article to all your blogs without posting to your Micro-blog at the same time for example.
Let’s say for this example I want to update my status messages across several networks. I simply select the “Status” Method and create my trigger.
The next screen will let you choose from your available social networks. When you set up a particular service from the dashboard, you have an opportunity to specify what methods you want that service to be a part of, so if the network you want to post to isn’t showing up, double check that the appropriate boxes are checked.
5. Posting
I want to update all my blog services at once using the default trigger. Here is what that would look like:
@b Here’s the Title to My Post^Here’s the body of my blog’s post.
As you can see, the “^” is used to separate the Post title from the body of the post and the “@b” is the default trigger for the Blog posting method.
The default trigger for status updates is: “@s” , so if I wanted to hit up all my status messages at once I would just prefix my text like this:
@s Is writing a very long message.