Hellotxt - essential for social network management
When running a successful social media campaign one of the most time consuming aspects is keeping all of the accounts synced and updated. It is vital in the world of social media marketing to provide a clear and consistent voice across all platforms you’re involved in. In larger campaigns this can easily top 20 or more sites so it’s not a stretch to say that a lot of time is spent reposting the same information over and over again.
In our constant search for new tools and methods we have come across a tool that addresses this very issue. Hellotxt steps up and offers the ability to send out status updates to 23 different social platforms. Some of them are a bit obscure but the main players like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Jaiku, LinkedIn, Bebo, Hi5, Plurk and FriendFeed are all there.
Hellotxt allows you to upload pictures for the update as well as paste in object codes from video sharing sites. This creates a shortened link in the status post. As expected, Hellotxt also shrinks urls down to 26 characters.
A couple of other nice features of Hellotxt is that it has a nice interface for mobile access (Link) and it also creates a unique email address for you @hellotxt.com so you can update via email.
To wrap things up… Hellotxt has become an integral part to all of our social media campaigns. It may not seem like its that helpful but it usually ends up saving us a few hours per week on each campaign we run so it really does add up in the end.
Tags: communications-tools, content-promotion, Internet-Marketing, network management, promotion-strategies, rss-applied, rssapplied.com, Social Media Marketing, social-networking-tools, Web-content