HootSuite recently released their iPhone version. This tutorial should come in handy. Thanks Brian.

This is a great post Brian. I am just getting my blog under way and this is going to come in handy.

Cheers

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Brian

Thanks for taking the time and effort to create this step-by-step guide.

Had to create a post sending my own readers over to see this article –
http://www.onlinebusinesscoach-phil.com/i-write...

Thanks again
Phil

Your welcome. Glad you find it useful. :)

Why PING.fm and not Friendfeed?

There are many ways to setup a syndication system. For me, Ping.FM integrates with Hootsuite and can update my Friendfeed account as well. I use Hootsuite daily to check my accounts so that’s why I use that as the source of the content.

Hi Brian this is absolutely one of the best posts I have ever read when it comes to social bookmarking. Also you have made it so easy to follow that my 2 year daughter could do it. I have set up my site with Hootsuite and Pingfm and it really does work. My site name is http://yourautoinsurancequotes.com so if interested check it out. Hey I tried to do the same thing with Onlywire but it did not work for me. Thanks for the great post and I will be checking back soon for more posts. Thanks alot Brian.

Brian stated “I purposely do not add Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Facebook Pages in Ping.FM because I want to update these main sites directly from Hootsuite and/or Seesmic Desktop.”

Why do you choose to do this?

Is it because you don’t want certain tweets to go to Facebook
and generate unwanted replies?

Have you written an entry about your social media workflow yet?

Thanks

I classify Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn as “tier-1″ social networks so I don’t want to have automated posts appearing there. Secondly I add a lot of status updates manually so I want to be in full control of my posts to the tier-1 sites.

Great idea about outlining my social media workflow. I will make a post on that.

@Brian Wong – Thanks for the reply!
HootSuite’s website got an update last night:
HTML 5-based, 3 Themes to choose from (if you like TweetDeck’s look, you’ll love the new ‘Magnum’ theme), Default retweet is now like Twitter’s style of Retweet, Site Analytics now have Google Analytics ‘baked in,’ Enhanced Facebook and more. Simply login to your HootSuite Account and you will be presented with a new features tour window.

Still need the old style HootSuite ReTweets or to schedule ReTweets?
Click the Owl-> Settings-> Preferences-> Uncheck “Use Twitter Web retweets”

WISH LIST –

It would be nice if HootSuite added the ability to measure, count and display RETWEETS from your links within My Tweets, Retweeted.

OW.LY links still cannot be tracked when used with Facebook yet.

Earlier they had removed the troublesome iFrame problem associated with the OW.LY links entirely, but still need to expand their click-thru tracking capabilities (namely Facebook) if they want to keep folks from cut/pasting bit.ly-generated links.

Looking forward to learning more about your workflow!

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Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I have two very popular blogs and for some reason could not wrap my head around how to syndicate them through ping.fm – I was unaware that hootsuite could feed into ping.fm!

Thanks nice post…
It saves my a lot times…
thx

why do you use both hootsuite and ping? i’m still trying to get my brain wrapped around this…is there a reason for using both and not one or the other?

also, it seems you are saying that your content is posted directly at hootsuite, correct? is there a way to have content posted on a wordpress blog and have THAT feed to ping or hootsuite…i just am thinking that i prefer to post the actual content on my blog itself, and then notify people via facebook, twitter, etc, that a post has been made so they go back to my site to read it. is this not an efficient way of doing it?

i’m just learning here, so i’m trying to figure out how best to do this. its very confusing with all the options! :)

Hi Tina, read this post and look at the diagram and I think it will become clearer: http://brianwong.com/blog/how-to-automate-your-blog-workflow-and-increase-your-search-engine-ranking/

thank you brian, that is helpful! i really appreciate you spelling all this out to make it clearer to newbies like me.

there is one thing i wonder that isn’t mentioned there, and i’m not sure if you’ve mentioned it elsewhere in your site…

i find it soooo easy to post to facebook and twitter via all the links so many people provide on their web articles and such these days…easier, i think, than creating a blog post…although i plan to do a lot of blog posts, of course, as well…but for quick links to articles or retweets…is there a way to have those feed back to my wordpress (self hosted) site?

maybe i missed it somewhere…but it just seems like the reverse could also be set up to send the info back to my blog if i tweet or post to facebook…is the way to do that just via the sidebar widgets that i can install to show the twitter and facebook feeds? or is there a way to have twitter/facebook post an actual blog post to my blog?

thanks again, you are actually really helping me sort through the confusion of all this info that is so very overwhelming! i set up my hootsuite account last night and so far i’m LOVING IT! having everything in one place instead of having to log off and on all the time is REALLY handy!

This post was exactly what I was looking for. I have 2 blogs plus multiple client blogs and I was using the shareaholic plugin to send my posts to ping.fm since I could not find a plugin to reliably send my posts to ping.fm. The shareaholic process was working but it required too many steps and time that was adding up when working with multiple blogs and posts. Thanks for taking the time to write this thorough post.

I think I spoke to soon. I have been trying to set this up and I followed the steps exactly as described. Hootsuite says “Feeding” for the status of my RSS feed, I’ve added my ping.fm account as described pasting my ping.fm key and saving my account but hootsuite will not post my new posts (or any posts) to ping.fm.
Is anyone else having a similar problem or am I doing something wrong?
If I could get this to work, it would make life so much easier…