Can you Automate your Social Media Efforts?
by JR Farr
I had a buddy of mine talking to me about the Social Media craze and he asked a pretty good question.
Can you automate your social media?
For example, you have a blog right? Then you have a twitter account right? Then Facebook account, MySpace account, Digg account, Flickr account… AH!
It’s hard enough for most of us to keep track of our usernames and passwords. But social media truly can helpful and if you use them right they can be very powerful to promote yourself, business or ideas.
Here’s where I am getting at… sometimes it gets overwhelming to have to re-write everything you just wrote in your blog in all of your other accounts, sites, etc. So what can we do to help automated this?
I have been doing some research about this particular topic and I have chosen to start with Twitter. Twitter seems to be the hottest thing right now since Big League Chew (love that stuff, especially the grape flavor) so I thought that would be a good place to start.
Right now I am testing out 3 Twitter Widgets or Plugins that work with WordPress.
Not only do they work with WordPress but… of course it talks back and forth with Twitter. Here are the plugins I have installed.
Twitter Tools – Alex King
Now, unfortanetly the theme I use currently doesn’t allow me to use the plugins with all their features. (Displaying in my sidebar.) But, I have used these themes to see all of their features.
Already Twitter Tools is leading the race. I noticed with others, my site would take some time to load because the Twitter Updates on the sidebar were taking so long to load. (If you use Twitter you know that their servers sometimes can’t take the traffic!)
Twitter Tools, like I said is great! It automatically updates your Twitter account when you are posting blog post, editing, and so forth.
But, here is my favorite part so far. When you are in your WordPress Dashboard and you click the “Write” tab you are giving a new sub option. The usuals are new post, new page, new link and now a new one shows up, “Write Tweet” How cool is that? So right from my blog dashboard I can make an update on my Twitter account.
I think this one might pull away with my vote but I am interested to see what others have thought?
Anybody have comments or found something better for WordPress and Twitter to communicate?
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