Comments on: Satisfy Compliance Requirements For Social Media Content

By: FP Pad » Blog Archive » Email Archiver LiveOffice Jumps Into Social Media Archiving Market

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:36:28 +0000

[...] I debate the statement that Social Archive is the first archiving solution (I’ve tweeted and blogged before about Arkovi Backups, Smarsh, SocialWare, and several others). Nevertheless, LiveOffice joins a [...]

By: Should you back up your online accounts?

Should you back up your online accounts? — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:16:33 +0000

[...] first read about Backupify when it was called Lifestream backup on Bill Winterberg’s blog FP PAD. After testing the free version for a couple weeks, I signed up for their Premium (10 gb) plan [...]

By: Bill Winterberg

Bill Winterberg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:54:14 +0000

Check out this review of Lifestream Backup at Brett Morrison’s blog: http://brettmorrison.net/290/review-lifestream-backup/

By: Brian Plain

Brian Plain — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:57:49 +0000

Thanks Bill. I’ve found Feed My Inbox to work pretty well so far, but great to know there are other affordable options out there.

By: FP Pad » Blog Archive » Another Twitter Archive Service Offers Social Media Compliance

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:26:58 +0000

[...] on Monday’s post regarding LifestreamBackup, I learned of another service that is designed to capture and archive messages posted through [...]

By: Kristen Luke

Kristen Luke — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:05:14 +0000

Thanks Bill for sharing this service with us. I’ll definitely start recommending it to my clients who are using social media for marketing purposes.

By: Bill Winterberg

Bill Winterberg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:12 +0000

@Joe,

The closest utility I’ve seen to an enterprise system to date is Smarsh’s Twitter archiving service, but it’s not as robust as Lifestream which connects to more than just Twitter. I admit that I haven’t been actively searching for large-scale enterprise solutions, as most of my clients are sole-proprietors or small businesses with 10 or fewer employees.

By: Joe Rueckert

Joe Rueckert — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:54:29 +0000

Have you seen enterprise systems in this space? Have providers like Zantaz incorporated socal feeds into their applications?

By: Doug Cornelius

Doug Cornelius — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:33:12 +0000

Bill –
Depends on your record-keeping needs, but many desktop RSS feed readers will create a file that is searchable and storable.

The nice thing about the feeds in that they are lightweight xml-based so it easy to dump them into a database.

By: Bill Winterberg

Bill Winterberg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:27:01 +0000

@Doug, Thanks for the comment. It's one thing to capture updates via RSS readers, but how do the messages make it to a compliance file? I've seen Feed My Inbox as a potential solution to convert RSS content to emails which are then archived in an adviser's email system. I like the idea of paying $5/month to really only do one thing: log in to Lifestream and download the archived files to my server.

By: Doug Cornelius

Doug Cornelius — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:27:52 +0000

Bill -

One great thing about lots of the social media platforms is their open architecture. In particular, a platform’s use of RSS to publish updates. For these sites, a simple RSS feedreader can be used to capture the information. That should work for Flickr, Twitter, Wordpress and blogging platforms, YouTube, and Delicious.