23 Mobile Things -- Thing 8 : Social Media Management Tools

Thing 8: "...the opportunity to explore tools to help you manage all of your social media."

I'm on Facebook (mainly personal), Twitter (mainly professional), and LinkedIn (professional). I also mange our library Facebook and Twitter accounts. I have Google+ but I don't really use it. I was on Foursquare but I've pretty much abandoned that.

So looking at Social Media Management tools or apps was a little problematic for me -- I wasn't too impressed with the options that I found or I really don't think that I need them. I was interested in Slices that Heather (@HevWam) talked about in her Thing 8 blog post but I can't find Slices -- guess they've disappeared. 

I do use TweetDeck as a desktop app via my work PC. There isn't an iPhone or iPad app but that's okay. TweetDeck gives me the ability to keep track of both my Twitter account and our library Twitter account all at the same time. I can have multiple columns of display -- news feed, each account, mentions, maybe a hashtag content I'm currently following etc. Here's a snip of what it looks like (not all columns are shown):

For now this is probably the only Social Management tool that I really need. If I want to share something across platforms (say Facebook to Twitter or LinkedIn to Twitter) I can do this directly from those apps/products.  

I guess if I was really in the market for a Social Media Management tool I'd look more closely at Cloze -- it seems to offer a lot of integration with options.  

Thing 41 -- Mashup your life

05/01/2009
okay, so another thing that I'm probably not buying into -- at least not right now. I did logon to Friend Feed -- I can be found at www.friendfeed.com/dianerauschenfels if you're so inclined to look for me. :0) I looked around a little bit trying to find a things group but I wasn't successful -- I only found Linda Wadman. ;)

I might consider trying HelloTxt as a way to update my status on facebook and twitter. Okay, so I took the time right now & signed up ... I got my twitter status to update but my facebook status didn't work ... hmmm, need more detective work but later ... it's lunchtime!!!

Thing 20 -- Facebook and MySpace

03/28/2008
Facebook:
I've had a Facebook acct for a little while ... I set it up originally with the intent to see if it would be a good way to connect with students at our college. We have enrollment of about 1100 but our Facebook network only has about 70 members (including alums) so for the time involved I decided not to pursue it ... but I will keep it in mind for the future.

As for personal use, I keep in touch w/a friend but we were doing that anyway via e-mail. I "friended" Lydia from our 23 things learners after I read her plea that she was feeling pitiful without friends. From the assignment instructions I wrote on several walls, and I joined a few more groups (ALA, Library 2.0, AILA, Librarians and Facebook) -- I had done both these things previously but what the heck. I looked around for additional friends to add, but I wasn't too successful in finding people I knew in my age group (yes, over 20 or so!) I did find lots of my daughter's and son's friends (okay that gives you a clue as to my age ... but it's only chronological not in mind & actions!!). I sent a msg to one of my daughter's best friends who has always called me "mom" ... I didn't want to invade her life by asking to be "friended" ... I just wanted to say "hi". Well she "friended" me! Something I'm sure none of my kids would do!! Even so, this is my pledge that I will NOT be a noisy snooper in Laura's Facebook so her friends can rest easy.

MySpace:
I've been out on MySpace before but I've never setup an account & I probably won't do so for personal use. And even though libraries are out there on MySpace I don't think at this point in time that I'd take the time & effort to create a site for our library.

I've thought of MySpace as "wilder" than Facebook but after reading in HS Media Musings that he found (accidently) a Facebook group for having sex in the library I'm not too sure about that statement anymore! I view MySpace as more of a private (that does get public) way for people to express themselves and interact with friends. And I'd take bets that my kids and their friends would not add me as a friend and that's okay. I should add that my "kids" are adults (20 somthings) not teens.