Oh how tangled we can get!
All this social media stuff can certainly get you tied in a knot or going round and round in circles. Especially once you start adopting other methods for posting or linking various tools.
I had my blogfeeds set up to update at my Facebook profile regularly.
Then I joined Twitter and found I could use Twitterfeed to feed my Twitter account from my blogs. So I linked those and then discovered Facebook had a Twitter application which I added. Which is both good and bad. My Facebook profile was now getting duplicates of my blog feeds – direct from the blogs and direct from Twitter. So I disabled the blog feeds at Facebook as it only needs the information once. But Twitter wasn’t updating my LinkedIn account so I needed to look at that.
Enter ping.fm – easy enough to set up but wouldn’t allow multiple custom URLs (my blogs) but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Ping.fm will feed all these places but doesn’t pick up the feeds. Which meant I had to physically enter posts at ping.fm and I didn’t want to have to log into yet another place – defeats the purpose if you’re spending all day just posting and nothing else.
So, what did I do to untangle this mess I’d gotten myself back into?
I revisited Twitterfeed and discovered it would feed ping.fm. I’d not noticed that before but perhaps that was because I wasn’t looking at the time – or perhaps it wasn’t available. Whatever, it is now and I have noticed it. So, to me it made sense to set things up like this:
All blogfeeds > Twitterfeed which in turn fed Ping.fm. That then fed Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin which kept my status updated at each place without duplicating information. Mind you, I will keep revisiting and updating as there is always new tools being developed!
Another great, informative post Kathie! Thankyou.
I am still feeling dizzy with the fast pace of activity of Social Networking. This week has been particularly busy and a quiet, restful weekend is in order…away from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn!
You are just AMAZING!! I’m on a couple of these sites but hardly use them. How you keep it all straight is a mystery to me. So it’s comforting to know that even the experts like you get tangled from time to time. Thanks for sharing!
What a post, Kathie, I admit I was getting a bit tangled up reading at the beginning – LOL – I too try to feed things into my Facebook, my ebay sales, my twitter posts, etc., but had not heard of ping.fm and will have to take a look at that. Thanks for sharing more of your knowledge.
I’ve heard so much about ping.fm, yet not yet utilize it. Probably because I haven’t been connecitng that much social media sites with each other. Good to know there’s an easier way to update everything. Thanks, Kathie.
@wchingya
Social Media/Blogging
Hi Kathie,
Great post. Isn’t it amazing how quickly things are moving? I’ll have a look at ping.fm now. I did see it on my Twitterfeed account so now I’ll go and link it up.
Wendy
There are just too many social networking sites now. I just use one or maybe two of the social sites for my needs. They are really helpful sometimes..