Comments on: How to Connect Google Reader Shares to Facebook via Hootsuite

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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:02:34 +0000

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By: colleengreene

colleengreene — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:11:45 +0000

I actually use Posterous to send links with visual thumbnails to my work's Facebook fan page and Twitter simultaneously. It works great, and posts images and video thumnails right on the page wall.

By: Otto

Otto — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:06:24 +0000

You must be thinking of an entirely different plugin. Check the one I linked to out.

Simple Facebook Connect doesn't do anything “dangerous” to the WordPress database in the slightest. And the modular nature of it means that it can be as shallowly or deeply integrated as you're willing to go with it.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:02:21 +0000

Last I looked into it, the Facebook Connect plugin did some dangerous things with the WordPress database. I don't know that I even want Facebook integrated that deeply into my blog.

Also, it would only cover my own blog posts, not my shares from Google Reader.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:00:18 +0000

Glad you think so, Chris. Thanks for stopping by

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:07:50 +0000

Definitely agreed, there. Social media can turn into nothing but a huge time
suck if you're not efficient and focus on your priorities.

By: ken wohl

ken wohl — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:32:00 +0000

Hey Rasheen, thanks for sharing these tips. It has definitely made my whole process more efficient and efficiency is KEY in social media.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:06:46 +0000

Your post and Colleen's comments are very much appreciated. I had already been using Hootsuite to push my blog posts to Twitter and overlooked this opportunity. Waiting for Facebook to pull in the feed (to JazzHQ) was painful, but I did like the posts appearing on the wall via notes. I'm trying to weigh the +/- of the link back. At least they're showing up in a timely manner. Thanks again.

By: Chris from HootSuite

Chris from HootSuite — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:20:13 +0000

Howdy! This is really cool, and something we at HootSuite HQ are quite impressed with. It just shows us that our users are a savvy lot who are constantly inventing new uses for HootSuite.

Chris,
HootSuite's Ambassador of Happiness

By: Otto

Otto — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:12:19 +0000

You already appear to be running WordPress. Why not have your blog posts go to your Fan Page? The Simple Facebook Connect plugin can do the trick for you.

By: ahr19

ahr19 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:59:19 +0000

Nice post. And good response by Colleen. Let's see if we can figure out how to do that AND include the thumbnail. Perhaps we can email/tweet hootsuite for an update?

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:02:17 +0000

You're right, the actual thumbnails make all the difference. I would rather
be able to easily post links that way, but I still have not found an easy
way to do so on a Facebook Fan Page. Like I said, visiting the page every
time I want to post a link is just a pain. Of course, I'm sure I'll think of
something eventually

By: colleengreene

colleengreene — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:17:03 +0000

A really nice post with great visual instructions.

After dismissing Hootsuite in favor of CoTweet a year ago, I decided to give Hootsuite another try this week, because of it's Facebook Fan Page integration. However, I like to post shared links as actual “links” on my Facebook Pages, not as just a status update (which is all that Hootsuite can do), because I find that we get more fan engagement with the visual thumnail associated with posting as a n actual link on the wall. When posting links as text-only status updates, we just don't get the same level of fan interaction.