Attention Facebook Losers…I Mean Users

I discovered a neat trick on Facebook. If you’re really smart, and three of you are, then you already know this trick and have my permission to move on to the next blog on your list. If you’re computer illiterate AND you have a blog AND you have a Facebook account, then boy do I have a gift for you.

You can connect your blog to your Facebook and make it so that every time you post something to your blog, it updates your status, like this:

OR you can make it so that every time you update your post you can SELECT whether or not you want it displayed on you Facebook page. I like that option because I don’t want to overwhelm my Facebook friends with every. single. blog post, so I only select the posts I think they’ll like.

I’ll tell you why this is a fun idea….because it peaks interest in your blog from people who may be friends on Facebook, but are not currently readers. All they have to do is click on your update, that comes complete with a thumbnail photo of your post, and they can read what you have to say right there in Facebook.

SO! Please Mama Kat, How do you do it!?!

Well I’m so glad you asked.

Step 1.

You want to make sure you are a member of Facebooks “networked blogs”. (If you’ve already become affiliated with networked blogs then skip to step 2.)

It’s easy. First you need to go to www.networkedblogs.com.

Scroll down and click on the giant button that says “Add Your Blog.” It will take you to Facebook and you will need to log in.

You will be flooded with all kinds of information and options and I’m pretty sure you’ll need to enter your blog info as well. You can select your favorite blogs or just scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Next”.

Then you will have the option of locating friends’ blogs and following them…or just scroll to the bottom and click “Go To The NetworkedBlogs Home Page”.

Somewhere in there I think you’re going to be asked for your blog URL and you might be asked to put the NetworkedBlogs button on your actual blog so that they can verify ownership. I did all that stuff awhile ago, so when I click “Go To TheNetworkedBlogs Home Page” it takes me directly to the account I already set up on a page that looks like this:

There are a lot of buttons and distracting, yet fun stuff to fool around with. That’s fine, get to know the website…and when you’re ready, refocus on the task at hand.

Step 2.

Once your blog is all set on NetworkedBlogs, click on “Profile” in the upper lefthand corner underneath the NetworkedBlogs logo. Scroll down until you see the thumbnail of your blog and then click on the title of your blog.

Step 3.

Now find where it say “feed setting” in the right hand column of the page. Click on that.

Step 4.

This is where you choose how you want your Facebook updates to be…updated. Do you want your Facebook page to updated EVERY time you publish a post? Then click the first option.

Do you want to choose which posts show up on Facebook?? Then click the second option.

I think I ignored the last two…or maybe I also clicked on “don’t publish all posts”…I can’t remember.

Step 5.

Ok now click save.

That’s it. Your blog posts will now appear on Facebook. If you clicked the option to choose which posts you want on your Facebook, just go to your Facebook profile and click on the little yellow and blue NetworkedBlogs target. A list of your most recent posts will pop up and you can choose which of them you’d like to display.

Not too bad right!?! A little complicated and a few steps…but all in all not too bad.

If you want to really be best friends then type in Mama’s Losin It in the search engine of the page you were just on and follow me and give me gold stars.