SocialPoster: Manage Multiple Social Media Submissions

If you're a fan of social news and bookmarking sites, you probably have a number of accounts scattered all over the place.

Personally, I bookmark content on Digg, del.icio.us and my personal favourite, ma.gnolia. I also use StumbleUpon extensively. Because I use so many different sites, I found that my bookmarks were scattered all over the place. Where was that WordPress tutorial I found last week - Digg or StumbleUpon? You get the idea.

I came across SocialPoster via the Pronet Advertising blog. It's a free service that allows you to make the same submission to multiple social bookmarking sites.

You submit the URL using their bookmarklet, then add a descriptive paragraph and tags. You choose the services you want to submit to (up to 40 available) and it generates a submission link for each one.

You still have to visit each site in turn and make your submission, but SocialPoster pre-fills most of the information for you. This makes it much easier to ensure your bookmarks are consistent across the various sites you subscribe to.

On Ethical Bookmarking

I think most of us here at Performancing have a white hat approach. But it won't do any harm to state my personal bookmarking policy.

Basically, I enjoy participating in these online communities, and I love to seed links to great articles I've read. My RSS subscriptions almost rival Scoble's!

I don't believe in seeding my own writing unless I've written something that I believe other people will enjoy reading. I probably bookmark 90-95% of other people's stuff as a reward for writing useful content and to help people with similar interests to find that useful content.

Don't use SocialPoster to spam social bookmarking sites - all you'll end up with is a helluva spammy account that no-one will trust.

Gerard McGarry is a music blogger for Unreality Music and a web designer for Scribble Designs.