While testing ping.fm, I noticed that most of the systems do not expect the same type of a message.

One will take the title as such (Blogger) another is a continuation of a sentence (LinkedIn).

To me, it looks like each system would require its own post mechanism. For instance, I'd like to send the entire post to my Blogger blog, but only the title + url to my Twitter account. Similarly, my LinkedIn account does not need each post to appear in there and the sentence starts with "Alexis Wilke is ..." which in most cases won't work with the title of my blog unless I can add something like «Alexis Wilke is working hard on a post titled "blah"».

So... What I would propose are two (maybe three) things:

1. Add a list of the locations where you can post on ping.fm (well... I hope the API allows for that, I think I have seen it! The user may have to enter the locations in Drupal, but that's alright for now)

2. Show the list in your node when editing so you can choose what to send where

3. Add a set of boxes so you can tweak messages for each individual location (i.e. Facebook versus Twitter versus LinkedIn...)

With all of that we should be able to make the messages look a lot better on each and every social media website.

What I'm asking at this point is: are you interested in such a feature? If not, I'd have to create my own version of the module and I'd prefer to share, although either way is fine with me. 8-)

Thank you.
Alexis Wilke

Comments

emdalton’s picture

We'd be interested in this functionality too.

emdalton’s picture

We might also need to be able to prefix different content types that are being forwarded to ping.fm. For example, prefixing the post with @m tells ping.fm that it's a microblog post, which would be appropriate for many content types, but sometimes we'd like to use the @b format and send at least a teaser entry with a "more" link.

AlexisWilke’s picture

Assigned: AlexisWilke » Unassigned

As far as I know you can only post nodes to Ping.fm, so I'm not too sure how you'd add an @ or # in your post...

Steven Brown’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Module is Obsolete please read project description.