Partial HootSuite access to Identi.ca

[Luke Slater]

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 22:45:21 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I discovered Identi.ca has a few snarls involved in OpenID access --
> not the least of which is you can't *re-use* an OpenID you're using on
> one Identi.ca account for another.
> 
> So I set up a special Ping.fm account that is hooked to the @fedora
> Identi.ca account.  I also entered it into HootSuite, and sent out
> invitations to the whole FAS social networking team giving access to
> this account.  So here's how it works now:
> 
> For new status updates -- updates that are *not* replies:
> 1. Login to HootSuite.
> 2. Select *ONLY* the Ping.fm "Fedora" account.
> The status echoes to Identi.ca @fedora, which echoes to Twitter
> @fedora.
> 
> For replies:
> 1. Login to HootSuite.
> 2. Select *ONLY* the account you're replying on, probably Twitter
>    @fedora.
> The status only goes to the Twitter account where the mention
> happened.
> 
> Although this does put another web service between us and Identi.ca,
> it doesn't *restrict* us from sending messages in another way.  As
> we've said repeatedly before, we'll continue to look for 100% FOSS
> management apps to which we can migrate in the future.

Hey all,

Also note that you can see @fedora's personal timeline here[1] and replies 
here[2] thanks to the open nature of Identica. So we can fully use Identica, 
just in a slightly convoluted way :-)

[1] http://identi.ca/fedora/all
[2] http://identi.ca/fedora/replies

Thanks,

-- 
Luke Slater
:O)
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