Today for Things I Love Thursday I wanted to talk about one of the tools I use to help me to keep tabs on all of the social networking I do. I am a social butterfly both in real life and in the online world, and like in real life I need some sort of way to help me from getting cluttered in my online life. Brad introduced me to Digsby a few months ago when I started Tweeting on Twitter, and I have been in love ever since.
Like most people I know most of us are on either Facebook or Myspace (or both if you’re like me), they have a few e-mail addresses, they IM, and now I’ve been finding more of you on Twitter. I end up having so many tabs open in my browser it’s ridiculous! With Digsby you can have them all neatly in a little window on the side of your screen, and it tells me when I have a new message on Facebook, Myspace, or in my e-mail. It also tells me when someone I’m following on Twitter Tweets something, rather than me sitting on the website all day long refreshing my browser. I find it has saved me a lot of time in not “checking” my e-mail so often, and from having a messy desktop/internet browser. Rather than me blathering on about it’s many benefits, click on over here to read about all of the great features. It’s a simple download, and the window pops up everytime I start up my computer letting me know all of the online love I’ve recieved!
Here’s a sample screenshot of what it looks like. I highly reccommend downloading it to anyone that is involved in the social network frenzy these days…I know I Love it.
As I brand new tweeter and an obsessed FAcebook fan I may have to check this out. Thanks!!
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I love apps that make your life easier like this! I used to use trillian as my chat program because it aggregated AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN on the same thing. I used to be a lot more into social networking and I’ve since pared it down to blogging and twitter because it was taking over my computer time, when I should have been working
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Oh man. I am so behind the times. I still don’t even know what Twitter is, much less Digsby. I need to get with the program (no pun intended).
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I’ve gotta check this out! I’m on myspace,mychurch,facebook, and getting started on twitter, plus 2 primary email addresses
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That looks like a neat software program. I’m not on twitter but I do use digg, multiply, stumble and occasionally delicious. Does it work for those sites?
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