My apologies for double-posting a reply to your comment. The first reply did not get published right away. So, I replied, again, to make sure that it’d get posted, and the original comment appeared on the site after that.

I must clarify one thing about FriendFeed. It doesn’t suffice to just take the steps that I mentioned above. You will also want to do the following, once you’re signed into FriendFeed:

- Click on the “Tools” link, located at the top of your FriendFeed homepage.
- Click on “Post to Twitter”. That’s located under “Share your feed”.
- You’ll be taken to the “Advanced Twitter Settings”. Check the box next to “Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation”. If using this service to transmit a link to your blog posts through your Twitter account, this step will make it so that the link on your Twitter update (generated by FriendFeed) will take people directly to your blog, and not to your FriendFeed page.
- Check the box that reads “Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default”.
- Now, under “Post entries from”, select the social media updates you will want to broadcast through your Twitter account. For example, if you select YouTube, every time you post a new video on your YouTube channel, there will be an update sent through your Twitter profile to let your followers know that you’ve uploaded new video content on YouTube. If you do this for your blog, the same thing will happen: your Twitter followers will be notified whenever there’s new content in your blog.
- Click on “Save changes”, and you’re done.

If you encounter any problems doing this, let me know. I’ll be happy to guide you through the process.

Have a prosperous 2010!
Guacira Naves´s last blog ..LeWeb Paris 09

Thank you for the comment!

Hootsuite offers you a way to automatically set up your blog to promote a new post through Twitter. As you may already know, Hootsuite is free to access and to use. Once you have signed in (through http://www.hootsuite.com), click on “Settings”, at the bottom left corner of the screen. Then, click on the RSS/Atom tab. You will then be prompted to type in your blog’s feed URL, and voilá.

Hootsuite will post an update in your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts whenever you add a new blog post.

Another alternative is to set up your FriendFeed account to do the same. Once you’ve joined FriendFeed and signed in, click on “Settings” (under your name and avatar, on the right-hand side of the page). Then, on the window that appears, click on “Import a service”. Next, click on “Blogging”. You’ll be asked to enter your blog’s URL, and that’s all that there it is to it!

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Happy Holidays,

Guacira
Guacira Naves´s last blog ..LeWeb Paris 09

Can you expand a little on your comment about setting a blog up automatically to promote a new post?

Thanks!
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