Posts from — October 2009

No doubt, we are moving into mobile connectivity like no other. This great video illustrates just how powerful mobile use is today and how far forward we are reaching right this minute.

Next up in our testing environment is RSS Graffitti. We decided to give this plugin application for Facebook a shot at getting our wordpress posts on our Facebook Business Page Wall. The reason for this is because using notes we did not get the ability to comment on posts, or full outside links from our facebook fan page.

RSS Graffitti is a great application, still in Beta. It does all of those things, posts images, comments, status updates and is only missing a few minor things. It does not post status updates (which shoot to Twitter) and images at the same time, so not that great, but when we couple Wordpress with Tweet Suite or other Twitter plugins, we know we can do this.

So all in all, we like it!

If you were toying with Facebook pages like we were and you still could not get your pages to show your blog, well, it’s all very simple.However there appears to be an issue if you have used other methods and then it became very mucky. So basically delete everything else that has to do with blogs, etc. and just add the notes like we did and wallah! yes folks it does work. Follow the instructions so nicely given by one of the users on another site we visited:

1. First create your business page.
2. add ‘Notes’ as an additional tab alongside WALL, INFO,
3. Third click on ‘Write a new note’ adding a test note then save draft
4. in the notes settings click ‘edit import setting’
5. add your blogs RSS feed and click the permission box

After attempting the Networked Blog application on Facebook, the result was not optimal. Facebook appears to already have handled passing page rank, so we are left with satisfying our fans on our business page for Facebook. Using Social RSS we were able to add the blog and take users to an offsite link to our blog without having to use a frame like the Networked app wanted to do.

Social RSS is a facebook application also. It appears in a frame on your left sidebar or in a tab on your Facebook Business page. It’s also not optimal, but it’s not bad.

We are now testing it to see if we can get it to post directly to the wall. Let you know….

So if you own a business and you have a FaceBook Page, like our Facebook Page you’ll want to make life easier and get your Wordpress blog to post to your Wall and update Twitter. So how do you do it?

1. Find the application Networked Blogs.

2. Install and configure it in your Facebook page.

3. Let your Business Page write to Twitter. (see notes below)

4. Go to your wordpress and start blogging. Your blog goes to facebook and your facebook goes to twitter and your done.

We are doing a test on this now!

Update: So networked Blogs is not optimum. First of all, no it does not tweet unless you tweet it from your page. Not bad but not that good. Your tweet will carry networked blogs url, and be framed by them, thwarting page rank you might otherwise get. As does your Facebook page blog. So we are scouting another solution for this.

You want it When?!

Holiday Deadlines are here. Retailers that are interested in selling for the Holidays have about seven  days left to get online and running. If you didn’t already plan for selling this year, and have no web design, may we suggest you sell on eBay?