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QuoteShareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing) (http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/shareist-is-a-content-management-system-for-your-content-management-system-thats-a-good-thing/)
As a major media figure on the Internet, I often find it difficult to manage all of my content outlets. I have a Twitter feed connected to my Facebook connected to my Tumblr. I also have a personal blog that I ignore and a few other things I shouldn’t ignore. The problem, then, is how to curate and post content I’d like to share almost everywhere at once or, barring that, focus in on one content outlet for my eager, content-hungry fan (Hi, Mom!)?
To solve this complex problem, founders Scott Jangro and Damien Arlabosse created Shareist, a tool for preparing and publishing posts from a central location.
It handles Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and several blog systems. I just wish it had a way to publish to Google+. Then it would be a perfect posting tool. I could then jettison HootSuite.
It takes a bit to figure out how to get around, and there are a few things that need to be added (like editable timezones for posts), but it appears functional.
Yes G+ is a bitch - not many ways to post to it :(
G+ is the bane of my SNS management. HootSuite is the only tool I know that can post to it, and ManageFlitter is the only reliable way to post from G+...but only to Twitter
Well done Mr. Jangro!
Shareist is a pretty sweet system. Scott and his team are doing some pretty awesome stuff with it. There is a lot of functionality but it is also very simple to use.
That's great!
Quote from: bill on November 06, 2012, 07:12:49 AM
G+ is the bane of my SNS management. HootSuite is the only tool I know that can post to it, and ManageFlitter is the only reliable way to post from G+...but only to Twitter
Google Plus Plus will let you post from G+ to FB and Twitter too
http://gplusplus.me/
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I've played with extensions like that before and it makes my streams too unwieldy. They often break when G+ updates the layout too.
What I'm really hoping for is a G+ API that will let apps write to G+. Then a cool tool like
Shareist would let me broadcast from one location.
Quote from: bill on November 06, 2012, 07:12:49 AM
G+ is the bane of my SNS management. HootSuite is the only tool I know that can post to it, and ManageFlitter is the only reliable way to post from G+...but only to Twitter
Wait, wasn't there a way to set up posting from G+ toTwitter ire toy in G+ settings? Or have they disabled it?
As for Shareist list of services they post to: LinkedIn is surely a bit of a gimmick as you can set up posting to it from most places natively just by tweaking LinkedIn settings
Quote from: bill on November 07, 2012, 05:37:09 AM
QuoteGoogle Plus Plus
I've played with extensions like that before and it makes my streams too unwieldy.
Yes, you can NOT turn on the streams integration. For posting to multiple places it works okay (with some glitches, like you can't use the G+ URL input box), but for reading multiple streams, it's a disaster. Above all, with G++, remember: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaLZHiJJnE
QuoteWhat I'm really hoping for is a G+ API that will let apps write to G+
Without really investigating this, I always just assumes that this is exactly why the API is not public and I'm surprised that HootSuite was allowed to sneak through that door. (partnership or just really smart engineering?). Anyway, I think Google doesn't want you to be able to post from another service, to schedule posts and so forth.
I've always felt like the overarching purpose of G+ was to give Google new data and new signals for its other services and that creating a useful social platform that would actually keep people on Google properties (like FB keeps them on their property) was a second priority.
So not allowing scheduling of posts gives them better data about how, when and where you actually interact. They can solve most of that for their own service (two timestamps - post time and publish time - for example), but things get way fuzzier for them once you can post from third-party services. Now they lose the IP you post from, the time you actually write the post, and so on and so on.
If you see a public API, I think it will only happen once Google decides they understand the data well enough to be able to offer the API without losing the key signals they want.
Quote from: bill on November 06, 2012, 07:12:49 AM
HootSuite is the only tool I know that can post to it
Now I remember why I didn't remember this - it's because HootSuite only lets you post to G+ company "pages" but you can really post to your profile like you can to FB or Twitter.
I suppose I should have at least one company page that I can think of, but what I want is the ability to post to my G+ profile
QuoteLinkedIn
They cracked down on what you can auto-post to your feed. It used to be a lot of people simply auto-posted their Twitter feeds there. It was a mess. Since the crackdown it has become much better actually. People are no longer talking about what they had for lunch or an animated cat GIF.
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You're spot on ergophobe. Auto posting to your G+ feed probably would turn the place into a wasteland. However, that doesn't stop me from wanting to do it. ;) It would make my posting chores lighter.
I read a very interesting post today by someone who had talked with the G+ team. Some points:
- Currently no ads are displayed. No plans for the near future but all that can of course change
- A social networking site is not the best place to display advertisement
- Twitter and Facebook can only display ads on the social networking site
- Google uses the data collected via Google+ to target ads better on the different Google services
QuoteHootSuite
Yeah, it's only posting to G+ Pages. That's all I need it for really.
Quote from: bill on November 08, 2012, 05:22:48 AM
QuoteLinkedIn
They cracked down on what you can auto-post to your feed. It used to be a lot of people simply auto-posted their Twitter feeds there. It was a mess. Since the crackdown it has become much better actually. People are no longer talking about what they had for lunch or an animated cat GIF.
Right, Twitter updates no longer go into the main stream yet you still have them on your profile page. As for log feeds, they still get posted just fine.