There’s another entrant into the social media stream management toolbox, PeopleBrowsr, that might have peaked my interest. With so many options available, from TweetDeck to Seesmic to Twhirl; some desktop, some online, some in-between. It seems we can’t get away from the “save you time in social media” tools. But, after spending the last two days taking a better look at PeopleBrowsr, I think they’re on to something and I think I like it.
I’ll leave the details about the company and the tech geek analysis to some great posts (listed at the bottom) from Mashable and TechCrunch, focusing more on the nitty gritty — will PeopleBrowsr actually help me in managing my often obnoxious social media stream…
A screenshot, a bit intimidating at first (especially if you’re not currently a TweetDeck or Seesmic user). So, let’s break it down… For me (and yes, it may be and should be different for you) I focus PART of my time on monitoring Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed (among others). Why?
Because a huge chunk of those people (market and colleagues) are present on these sites. PeopleBrowsr lets me monitor all three in one-place and do some pretty snazzy things with the monitoring…
After a little set-up and navigation, I’m able to have a “stack” (column) that combines @replies and DM messages, rather than having a stack for both. This helps me manage more of my direct contact easier, using less screen space and thus giving me more options within other stacks.
I’m then able to have a special stack for my FriendFeed contacts — either everyone or those that I’ve marked “Professionals” (a separate list of people I want to pay attention to…) Yet, again, helping me manage my massive FriendFeed stream that can sometimes move too quickly — now I’m able to really stay connected to those I want to, right next to other sites:
And beyond that, I have a stack for “Groovy Peeps” in Twitter alone. These are all the people I know and love, within my industry, it helps me get through all the noise on Twitter, which is sometimes hard to do. Again, a great way to filter your stream of knowledge intake 
You can actually build as many custom Twitter stacks as you want — including the infamous #hashtags – which I tend to follow at least 3-5 on any given day and they are constantly changing. So, I set up a groovy alert in my Google Calendar for specific day #HashTags and for that day, I set-up custom stacks to follow them, along with everything else I follow in the stream. Here’s today’s stack on #smchat — a great one!
Lastly, my pretty purple stack is my Facebook friends so that I can see, comment, like, and share what’s going on from Facebook, all in the same window that I’m doing it in Twitter and FriendFeed — very groovy indeed!
Other cool stuff in the PeopleBrowsr tool that I find useful:
- It keeps a running record in the stream of each reply, comment, and share. Meaning, when I reply to a message from some, or retweet it, or whatever I do with it, it marks that and saves it. AND, when that person replies to me, it includes ALL the replies that are associated — for a power user like me, this is awfully helpful in helping me keep tabs on several conversations going on at one time… Especially when I step away so often and come back
- Another cool feature, especially for power users is the ability to EXPORT the stack streams that you do have. Handy and dandy! I export #hashtag streams, which can be difficult to pay attention to live, so that I don’t miss valuable resources and comments from my colleagues… I see a whole bunch of use for this little feature.
And there’s so much more… AND it’s only in early public Beta, so I expect to see much more in the future. When I first found PeopleBrowsr, months ago it was okay, didn’t hold my attention too well, now they’ve got it and unless a desktop app comes out with all these cool features, it looks like I’ve found my new stream management tool
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Here’s ReadWriteWeb’s take on PeopleBrowsr, and TechCrunch’s take for the inner-geek in you.
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Looking forward to connecting with you!
Maria
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