When I became serious about writing for my blogs, and using social media I started crafting a web of information. This web consists of two overlapping goals. Spread my blog posts as far as possible, and increase my reach in social media. I use overlapping tools to accomplish these ends.
I have two blogs, this one, and my bookkeeping blog. I use FeedWordPress to bring my Bookkeeping and Accounting posts to this blog. I want everything I write to end up here.
Blog Posts
Getting automatic updates going out to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for blog posts is easy with Twitter and Facebook Google+ is a little harder.
For Twitter I installed Tweetly Updater into my blog. I gave it my Twitter Profile. Now when I create a new post, or update a post a Tweet is created letting my followers know about the new or updated post. I only use it on this blog, because an update goes out for the posts which come in to this one from my other blog.
For Facebook I use the Facebook app RSS Graffiti. I use RSS Graffiti in two ways. The first way is that I have a page for each of my websites. I use RSS Graffiti to bring in my posts to their respective pages. The second way I use RSS Graffiti is to create staus updates on my main profile from this site.
For Google+ I am still working on a solution. I am feeding my blog posts to a Blogger Blog, which is integrated with my Google+ Accounts. To get the posts into the Blogger Blog I use Bloggers blog by email address and I used FeedMyInbox to send my Feed from this site to the Blogger blogger blog. From there I hope to be able to use Blogger’s integration with Google+ to accomplish my goal.
Social Media Integration
For social media integration I found Google+ to be the best place to start. I made a circle in Google+ and I added the post by email address from my Facebook account. I then went over to TweetyMail and signed up for their free plan, which includes 100 tweets a month. Now when I post to Google+ I use the circles I want, and add my Social circle. I check the send by email box and post.
There is one caveat for this to work, you can not have any e-mail addresses in your circles you do not want to send emails to.
Finally I have linked my Tweets to my LinkedIn Profile, and I continue to look for ways to grow my web.
