Welcome Jeremy Lichtman our head developer posting his first blog post on our site!

If you're anything at all like me, you've got a whole bunch of different social media websites, in addition to a blog. Wouldn't it be nice if you could post something in one place and then have the information show up on all of them? The good news is that its now possible to do this.

The specific problem was getting info from our blog (what you're reading right now!) onto our Twitter and Facebook pages. The idea is to update our status with a link to any new blogs that we write.

Here's how you can do it:

1. Make sure you know the URL of the RSS feed of your blog. Most blogs have RSS feeds these days. You can often find it by looking for the orange RSS icon and clicking on it. A funny looking page will open up in your browser, with the headlines of your recent blog entries. Copy the URL at the top of the browser and paste it into a document for later on.

2. Go to http://ping.fm and sign up for an account. Once you are logged in, you can add in your social media profiles - i.e. you can plug in your Facebook profile information, and then from ping.fm you can update your Facebook status. Put in as many (or few) social media profiles as you want.

3. The last step is to make the information from your RSS feed send updates to ping.fm, so that it can update your status. To do this, go to http://twitterfeed.com and sign up for an account. Then add in an updater for ping.fm,using the URL of your RSS feed that you saved before (don't connect directly to Twitter here, unless you want duplicate copies of your blog to appear there, because you've probably already set up ping.fm to post to Twitter as well).

There are lots of options you can play with in all of those websites, and you may need to fiddle around with them to get them to do exactly what you want. Don't be alarmed if you post to your blog and you don't immediately see your Twitter or Facebook status change - each step along the way has a built-in delay, and it may be an hour or more before the change goes through.

Good luck! if you have any questions contact us at www.u2r1media.com

Jeremy

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