I finally have a good recommendation for a Twitter/Facebook Client: Seemsmic Desktop.  I’ve tested Tweetdeck, Hootsuite and Seesmic and found they all have good features.  For me the Seesmic Desktop had the set of functions I needed to be effective:

  1. I needed access to the following.
    • 2 Twitter Accounts
    • Personal Facebook Account
    • Multiple Facebook FAN pages
  2. I wanted the ability to have a combined view of all these accounts – so I don’t have to switch panes, etc.
  3. I wanted the ability to view comments/add comments in the client.
  4. I would have liked to have my LinkedIn account also tied in – but I noticed all I got was this person connected to this person – which wasn’t very meaningful to me.
  5. I would like to have Google Buzz tied in – but I don’t think any of the clients support this yet.

So here’s my personal strategy:

  1. I will have Seesmic client open – which consolidates all of my feeds into one timeline panel.  It won’t display the updates like Tweetdeck (which I liked) but I can scroll down the list to where I left off – or if I’m logged in does provide a discreet notification.
  2. I post most of my content via this blog – which takes care of my main twitter account and Facebook FAN page. I use ping.fm to do the push and LinkedIn is connected based on a tag in the post.
  3. For my secondary Twitter/Facebook FAN page I’m creating a “page” on this site and manually posting it to Facebook – which pushes it to Twitter.
  4. For my groups on LinkedIn I think the weekly notifications are a prompt to login and interact with others.
  5. For the Google Buzz experiment I’m just manually posting a link to these – I’m still not sure about Google Buzz as the default view of all comments expanded is driving me crazy.

Comments about Tweetdeck:

  1. I was actually using Tweetdeck for some time and quite happy with it.  I liked the pop-up notifications and the overall GUI.
  2. Unfortunately when I built a 2nd Twitter account it didn’t flow well as I couldn’t configure it well.
  3. I think I also noticed that the “tweet” notification sound was occurring on my wife’s login – which was kind of annoying

Comments about Hootsuite:

  1. I don’t have as much experience with this one as the others.
  2. One of the key differences of this tool is that it exists totally in the browser – as opposed to a desktop client

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