Okay, when I got up this morning I didn’t really know what the pound sign meant when it comes to Twitter. Turns out it’s called a ‘hashtag’. (don’t ask me why it’s called this because I don’t know yet!) A hashtag precedes a ‘tag’ for a series of related posts on Twitter or ‘tweets’ as the Twitter folk call it. If you go to www.twitter.com, and enter the term #nhsmbs, for example, you’ll get a list of all the tweets that various people have made regarding the Social Media Summit event held today at PSNH’s Energy Park in Manchester, NH. I was one of a hundred attendees who learned more about social media, it’s uses for business and specifically, Twitter, one of the more popular sites.
Some of the things I learned were how to automate my social media strategy. For example, I came home and figured out how to make it so when I post to my blog like I’m doing now, that same post will get made to my Twitter account. It also shows up on my web site as well as my business’s Facebook page.
Thanks to Alan & Lani Voivod of Epiphanies, Inc. for putting on a helpful event!
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so how did you automate cross posting? I did it w a FB app and a twitter plugin after looking in vain for a one trick pony. yesterday was a lot of fun. I’ll have to get up to nh more often!
I installed a plugin I found on wordpress.org called Twitter Tools. I still haven’t quite figured out the cleanest way to integrate with Facebook as well.
Hiya Link,
Thanks so much for the kind words! And yes, Twitter Tools is a great plug-in for your purposes. As for Facebook integration, it depends on which direction you’re talking. To get your blog into FB, use the FB Notes application, which can pull from your blog’s RSS feed. (Which sounds like what you’re already doing based on your blog post, but just in case, I’m rattling it off here.)
To bring FB into your blog, look on the left side of your profile page for the link to create Facebook badges you can add to the sidebar of the blog.
Hope that helps, and look forward to running into you again at the hardware store sometime soon. ;)
Best,
Allen