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		<title>Automate your social media efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lani Rosales</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often speak about cross-pollinating your social networking efforts meaning syndicating your updates in a way that when you update one network, it automatically sends the same update to other networks, saving you time. The other benefit of syndication is to promote the content you produce on one site by featuring it on another site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We often speak about cross-pollinating your social networking efforts meaning syndicating your updates in a way that when you update one network, it automatically sends the same update to other networks, saving you time. The other benefit of syndication is to promote the content you produce on one site by featuring it on another site in an automated way.  Although being inhuman and &#8220;automated&#8221; is typically frowned on, this is an exception as it is <em>your</em> work you are automating and is your opportunity to increase exposure for what you are working on.</p>
<p>Although there is no magic pill to automate all of your efforts, there are select tools to point each social network at the other but we want to <em>warn you</em> that you should not use every single one of these tools or all of your efforts will be repetitive of each other, so if your Twitter updates end up going to your Facebook, don&#8217;t make your Facebook updates go to Twitter or else you&#8217;ll have an echo going on.  </p>
<p>Click on the links in orange below to be directed to the service that will link each network.</p>
<h2>Syndicate your blog posts</h2>
<p>1. <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/" target="_blank">To Twitter</a> with Twitterfeed. It will ask you for your Twitter permission and information about your blog.  You can set up an account or log in with Open ID.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes.php" target="_blank">To Facebook</a> by clicking &#8220;import blog&#8221; in the upper right portion of the &#8220;Notes&#8221; page.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/opensocialInstallation/preview?_ch_panel_id=1&#038;_applicationId=1500" target="_blank">To Linked-In</a> with the &#8220;Blog Link&#8221; application that pulls your blog automatically on to your Linked-In profile, viewable by your contacts.</p>
<h2>Syndicate your Facebook updates</h2>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/twitter/" target="_blank">To Twitter</a> directly through Facebook (however, this only works for Facebook Pages).</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/09/allen-blue-twitter-and-linkedin-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-chocolate/" target="_blank">To Linked-In</a> which currently only works by linking your Facebook updates to go to Twitter which can <em>then</em> be linked to go to Linked-In (see &#8220;syndicate your Twitter updates&#8221; below).  Linked-In and Facebook don&#8217;t play together yet but we suspect syndication will eventually be linked.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/profilebadges.php" target="_blank">To your blog</a> with a badge that adds your profile information to the sidebar of your blog (you can also add a badge for your <a href="http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/pagebadges.php" target="_blank">Facebook business page</a>).  Badges direct people to your profile rather than share updates.</p>
<h2>Syndicate your Linked-In updates</h2>
<p>1. <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/09/allen-blue-twitter-and-linkedin-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-chocolate/" target="_blank">To Twitter</a> directly through Linked-In settings.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/09/allen-blue-twitter-and-linkedin-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-chocolate/" target="_blank">To Facebook</a> which currently only works by first syndicating your Linked-In updates to Twitter then from Twitter to Facebook.  Linked-In and Facebook don&#8217;t play together yet but we suspect syndication will eventually be linked.</p>
<p>3. <a href="" target="_blank">To your blog</a> by creating a custom Linked-In button (badge) for your site.  When signed in, on the top of the page, hover over &#8220;Profile,&#8221; select &#8220;Edit Profile&#8221; then click &#8220;Promote your profile with customized buttons&#8221; and embed a badge in your blog&#8217;s sidebar.  Badges direct people to your profile rather than share updates.</p>
<h2>Syndicate your Twitter updates</h2>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=7cc3dc042ec019b913300d1e7559aad9&#038;next=&#038;v=1.0&#038;canvas" target="_blank">To Facebook</a> with the Twitter application, simply give it permission to put your Twitter updates on your Facebook wall.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/09/allen-blue-twitter-and-linkedin-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-chocolate/" target="_blank">To Linked-In</a> directly through your Linked-In settings.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets" target="_blank">To your blog</a> with a Twitter profile widget that shows your blog readers what you&#8217;re saying on Twitter in real time.</p>
<p><em>If you have any questions or need help walking through any of these processes, leave a comment below or <a href="http://nmlab.com/contact/" target="_blank">contact us directly</a>, we&#8217;ll help- no question is a stupid question, we all started <strong>somewhere</strong>!</em></p>
<p><small>CC Licensed image courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerrythomasen/201991805/" target="_blank">Gerry Thomasen</a> via Flickr.com.</small></p>
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