Why do we need to choose between Facebook and our personal blog? It is obviously painful to post manually the same information on Facebook and on our blog. At the same time we don't want usually to post the same type of information.
On Facebook: Casual post, short and aimed to our tech savvy friends (they need to use Facebook regularly)
In a Personal Blog: Usually longer post targeted to our non tech savvy friends
Bottom line, we need to be able to share content automatically between a Blog and Facebook but not all of it. How can we achieve that?
Let's start with what we cannot do:
1) Share RSS feeds from the Blog to Facebook - It copies *everything* and sometime this is an issue. Not possible to "filter" the feed.
2) Share the RSS Facebook feed in the blog - This is not possible as they change the link all the time! Facebook worked very hard to make the news feed not RSS capable. That is a shame but a reality. And this solution as anyway the same issue than above: it shares *everything* which is not our goal.
So, here is what I am doing now… the solution is different for my laptop and my mobile device (iphone)
On my laptop: I am just using the “share” button on my blogger account as explained here. With this simple solution, I just publish once and then pick and choose which post I want to share.
on my iphone: I tried Seesmic or ping.fm without success (impossible to download an image on blogger with those apps, I am getting an error message all the time). They should also seriously invest in some documentation for the ping.fm web site. this is *so* confusing. I am now using pixelpipe to cross post with great success.
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