Over the last couple of days I have been trying various Facebook plugins to try and get my blog content syndicated with Facebook – and what I have discovered it reasonably annoying. At this point from what I can tell, there is a great FB plugin that will do what I want; ie post my new blog entry in to my fanpage and on to my profile wall BUT it needs you to set up an FB app for this to work. The FB app for is intended to run as a fanpage. Now the only problem with that is – thing’s should be done opposite to what I have done them!
For example – most people have already got their fanpages set up and anyone who has put one together knows it’s much easier said than done – putting together the actual page is EASY – BUT growing followers in the beginning can be reasonably time consuming – so the thought of having to switch pages is a frustrating thought! BUT then if you set up the app, you effectively have 2 fanpages, which is far from ideal – it just confuses people and anything you do online really needs to be kept simple and streamlined as far as a viewers perspective goes. If you make thing’s hard, people won’t do it – pure and simple.
So the solution? Well, I’m yet to come up with an automated solution just yet – I’m sure it won’t be too long and someone will create a plugin that will do what I want it to do – in the meantime it’s back to just manually clicking on the like button of the post or using a service such as ping.fm – but then that only goes to your profile, not your fanpage.
So really, the solution at this point is to set up your blog first THEN your fanpage – if someone know’s something I don’t on this subject – I would value your feedback!
Kat
October 16, 2010
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