iheartcommunities

In english guys – hope that’s really ok with you =)

I want to touch upon a tendency in communities that is outstandingly fantastic, if you want to create some sort of automatic online presence (in addition to your “real” online presence, not as a substitute to it – you hear?). You can actually import your blog into communities via an RSS feed  (if you don’t know what RSS really is check it out here). Normally you call this process “feeding”.

So what communities are supporting this?

I would define the communities supporting this as “communities with other people as social objects”. Meaning communities celebrating social, connections, business etc. Not to get to specific I will like to highlight 3 communities where you can import your blog: Facebook, linkedin and twitter.

Facebook user:

As a facebook user you can import your blog:

1.  On the “notes page” select the “Import a blog” link on the right side of the notes page

2. Enter the URL of your blog

3. Click “save settings”

Now everytime you blog something on your personal blog, it is also published on your facebook profile.

Facebook page:

on your facebook page, find the box where it says “notes”. On my facebook page for Toothless Tiger the box with notes is on the righthand side, under the “events” box. Now on your page an orange icon will appear when the page is importing a blog RSS from elsewhere.

Twitter: there is a service called Twitterfeed where you simply provide the URL for the blog (or the RSS feed) and attach it to your user.

Linkedin.com:

On linkedin you can import your wordpress blog under “applications” – as far as I have experienced, it’s only a wordpress application that is actually supplying linkedin.com with blog feeds these days – so the rest of you will have to wait (on the other hand – why use anything else than wordpress ?)

Anyway:

1. log in

2: click profile in the lefthand menu

3: you are now on your profile, scroll down to under your “summary” – you will find an “application” tab. Here you can add your wordpress application and drag your blog rss feed onto your profile.

ps. I have installed a slideshare.net application and a wordpress application on my linkedin profile. I think it works great because it’s not too noisy with only two applications in linkedin.com

pps. something you should also work around is your summary on linkedin - I have worked on mine a lot and I think it represents me really well by now.

crossposted on henrietteweber.com - where all of my internet practicality normally grows and flows =)