Managing Social Media

Posted by Jeff Carter
on September 2nd, 2012

There is a proliferation of social media sites. Facebook($FB), Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin ($LNKD), About.me, Rebelmouse, Instagram, Disqus and so many others. If you think about Yelp and TripAdvisor, those are social media sites too, along with the comments on sites like Amazon.

One thing I would love to see developed is an auto aggregator. I am envisioning it this way. Suppose I post a question on Facebook and a comment stream ensues. Additionally, I post it on Twitter and a comment stream ensues there. Wouldn’t it be cool to see all the comments aggregated in one place for everyone to see and interact with. People that were not on Facebook, but only on Twitter could interact with each other.

It seems like it might be more efficient. In the case of this blog, suppose I posted it here, on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, different blogs, newspapers, and a site like News.Ycombinator.com. All the comments from every place became integrated in one spot.

Personally, I can use Engag.io to see them all and interact-but the separate users can’t interact with each other. Unless there is an app that you can install over all the sites that does it for you. If you use social media and aren’t signed up for Engag.io I suggest it. It’s a start. But I am envisioning something bigger.

As Howard Tullman has said, Your real life persona will merge with your online life and there won’t be a difference between the two. Integrated comments would make that happen faster.

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