Ping From Skype or Gtalk!
If you read the Webmaster Business Plan blog, you have most likely heard me talk about ping.fm and how it is a great tool for webmasters and internet marketers to keep updated on many social networks easily and effectively. Well there is something that I just noticed, no it’s not new, I just finally looked at the bottom of the page and noticed it. So some may already be well aware of this feature and heck you may already be using it.
The feature I am talking about is of course the ability to update your ping.fm account and then in turn all of your social sites from your Skype or Gtalk clients. All you have to do to set this up is login to ping.fm and look at the bottom right. you will see links to these services. They give you an email address/account name to add as a contact. Then you will send one message to make your account verified to use the ping. fm api using your credentials and you are done.
Now any time you send a message to this new contact in your IM app of choice, all of the social networks that you have setup with ping.fm will be instantly updated for you! This is a great way to get the word out about a new blog post, specials you are running or anything for that matter.
You can see what I am talking about in the image below, just click the thumbnail to open the full size image.
Well if you are always chatting on gtalk and skype already, now you can blast social networks very easily too. Now that is what I call being productive.
This is just one more little trick you can add to your arsenal of social marketing tools. I hope you enjoy this new found feature as much as I did,
Nick Simpson
Free Web Site Tools
