Feb
22
Forget Pinterest – Why You Need XeeMe
While the social media world is busy clamoring on about Pinterest, aka “digital crack for women” and off debating the merits of leaving Facebook, some of us have been quietly looking for new ways to efficiently increase our SM presence. XeeMe, a relatively new service that launched in August of last year, could be about the best invention since sliced bread, although it hasn’t exactly garnered the press and international coverage that this truly innovative and useful online social management tool deserves. Guess that could be the main reason that I’m writing this blog post!
So what is it and why is it so great that I’m bothering to write about it? XeeMe, pronounced “see me” is a new social media aggregation tool that for the first time EVER allows users to combine ALL of their entire social media footprint into one profile. You can’t do that with other sites. To give you a better idea of what it looks like, here’s mine. If you’re like me, you’ve had a hard time just keeping track of all of your social media profiles, much less any groups (e.g. this blog on LinkedIn) or pages that you manage. If you don’t do anything else but get organized, XeeMe is well worth the thirty minutes or so of effort it takes to get set up.
What really makes XeeMe special to me though compared to Klout, where you can only connect about a dozen of your social media profiles and even then the results from only a few are counted, is that you can add anything you want! The site currently supports over 200 social media platforms, however it also gives you the option of adding any platform that may not be supported yet with a custom link. That’s right, no more of that “pre-set” bullcrap. As my colleague Becky Gaylord points out in a blog post, it’s smarter than Google too, as it allows you to combine your personal and professional SM presence seamlessly.
As for analytics, XeeMe has a tool called the “Social Traffic Report” which will actually count all of the links from your XeeMe profile to your various SM platforms. The results may surprise you! Within two days I had over 500 views of my XeeMe profile, of which most were to my Google+, Twitter and even Foursquare, not Facebook where I have the largest presence. In sum, XeeMe can be utilized as a tool to drive new traffic to all of your platforms and cross pollinate your SM presence. I’ve had a lot of fun so far discovering new people on various platforms and power networking the way it’s supposed to be done with people all over the world who have found ME! If you’d like to try it out for yourself, first view the tutorial and then register here to set up your free profile. Easy as pie!
http://xeesm.com/nicktaylor777 – my SM presence in 1 profile
Tags
Blogging, Global trends, Marketing, PR, Social Media
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