Flock 2.5: A Browser for the Social Media Political Warrior
ByOne remark that we frequently hear from new online conservative and libertarian advocates is that they are surprised at how much time it takes to properly work the social media scene. There’s no doubt about it, doing social media advocacy takes time… and doing it well takes even more time. In fact, it often takes much more time than we have to give.
One tool that we’ve found helpful as bloggers who also campaign under multiple handles in the social media world is Flock. Flock is a version of Firefox with a social layer that integrates most if not all of your social media accounts in one place. As we are browsing the web or going through our RSS list of favorite conservative and libertarian websites, we simply drag and drop links or media like photos into the web clipboard [cntrl+shift+C]. Later, at our convenience, we can drag and drop into posts here at Daily Uprising or send via any one of our social media accounts within Flock.
We understand that you may be able to find a better stand-alone program to interface with social media components and that there are some good plugins for the standard FireFox browser that work well. In particular, there are some great applications that work with twitter’s api, like TweetDeck.
Having said that, there is certainly something to be said for the efficiency of being able to do 95% of what you might need to do quickly and simply in one easy to use web browser. When it comes to sending friends links and media from our various accounts to their various profiles, there are few solutions that are as elegant and as easy as our old Flock browser.
Flock is free and open-source. You can click on the thumbnail below to download and install the browser on your PC. We recommend viewing the short how-to video series the Flock team has prepared and trying out the web clipboard and RSS features to get familiar with it.
