Every blog needs a facebook page!

Mar
17
2008
Submitted by Nick on Mon, 17th Mar 2008 - 22:38 and has been commented on 13 times.
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Every blog worth its weight needs a Facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thingy-Ma-Jig...../22760952880

Lets see how many fans I get! This is also a test in a way. I wanna see if Facebook could provice any kind of useful traffic.

Now the question is - how can my website "talk back" to facebook? How can I get it to automatically post these fantastic blog entries I write to the page? Has someone written an API module? Surely they must have!

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The most recent comment was on Mon, 5th Jan 2009 - 00:55
Boris Mann's picture

Mar
18
2008
Submitted by Boris Mann (not verified) on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 - 00:48

You don't need to do anything special. Any page (or personal profile) can suck in RSS feeds and convert them to Facebook Notes. My personal profile sucks in my personal site, http://bmannconsulting.com

I'm also running facebook_auth on my site, but that turns your site into an App, not a page.

Nick's picture

Mar
18
2008
Submitted by Nick on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 - 12:22

Thanks for pointing that out - That's what I get for blogging while nearly asleep!

Its fixed now.

Nick's picture

Mar
18
2008
Submitted by Nick on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 - 12:24

Boris, When you say:
Any page (or personal profile) can suck in RSS feeds and convert them to notes

Do you mean that there is functionality to do this by default or do you need to use an App? I've configured by page to use this app...

http://apps.facebook.com/blogrssreader/

Tom Kephart's picture

Mar
18
2008
Submitted by Tom Kephart (not verified) on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 - 19:42

You can use Facebook's native Notes application to subscribe to one RSS feed and have it appear in your Mini-Feed. Click on "Notes" under Applications, then click the "Import a blog" link on the right-hand side of the Notes page. Enter the URL of your blog's RSS feed and it starts importing posts.

FYI, the first time it imported posts from my blog, it grabbed the ten most recent, then about an hour later it did it again. I just went in and deleted the duplicates, since then it's run flawlessly.

Nick's picture

Mar
19
2008
Submitted by Nick on Wed, 19th Mar 2008 - 01:16

Tom - that works PERFECTLY! Thanks!

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Nov
14
2008
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 14th Nov 2008 - 03:48

Hi Nick -
I went to the page to set up a page to promote my two blogs - but I was confused as to what category I should select since it is a personal blog about music and not a blog about an official business!

SInce I am currently not a member I can not see any samples of what these pages look like. What do yhou recommend please.

Thanks in advance for you assistance.

Zohreh Piurek's picture

Jan
05
2009
Submitted by Zohreh Piurek (not verified) on Mon, 5th Jan 2009 - 00:55

Thank you for the tip. Most helpful. Z

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