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Blog to tweet to buzz to face to blog to tweet…
February 11th, 2010 · by David Bradley >> 3 Comments
… a new blog post that will automatically be sent to Twitter, the Twitter feed is then pulled by my LinkedIn account, which sends an email alert to my GMail buzz account, which parses the message and generates a ping.fm update via a macro which is then sent to my Tumblr page. My Facebook fan page then polls the RSS feed for the Tumblr account using a feed reader application. This in turn automatically pokes my ghost account on Facebook which aggregates the input and generates a newsfeed that is then polled by a Plurk plugin. The plurk feed then spews out its contents to the feed-o-matic app on my blog and generates a new blog post that will automatically be sent to Twit…
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David Bradley // Feb 11, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Thanks to Ed Yong for inspiration
Kate // Feb 11, 2010 at 2:39 pm
It gives me a headache just trying to follow it…
Heidi Cool // Feb 12, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Brilliant! Don’t forget to feed it all to FriendFeed and have all the services pull in the FF feed so you can generate a nice recursive loop and crash teh Interwebz!
You make a great point here. Automation can be helpful if used judiciously, but it’s not a substitute for human content curation. The other day I saw a fellow on LinkedIn recommend using ping.fm to send the same message to 25 different social media services. Rather than a time-saving marketing strategy I view that as a really good way to annoy one’s followers.
My Google Reader shares go to LinkedIn, Tumblr and my personal Facebook page. My Delicious saves go to Tumblr and my personal Facebook page, and my blog entries go every where. (So yes, I too automate a bit, but I don’t think my FB friends are viewing my LI profile everyday and I can’t imagine that anyone is following my Tumblr, so aside from the blog there’s not much redundancy in this process.)
Otherwise though I try to target separate messages to separate audiences. The links I post on my biz Facebook page are different from those I share on Twitter or Google Reader. I do them separately to appeal to different audiences, AND so the people who follow me in multiple spaces aren’t seeing too much repetition.
People see automation as an easy time-saving device but in the end we must think not about what’s easy for us, but what will be useful for our readers.