Interconnecting Tools

Do you stay in touch with your friends using any of these tools: A blog, Facebook, email, Twitter, or Constant Contact? You can maximize your effectiveness and communication efficiency by letting them talk with each other.Consider this scenario: you write an email and send it to your regular mailing list. One address on your list is a special email to your blog page which automatically creates a post out of your email. At the same time, if your blog is programmed with a special add-on, your blog page will automatically create an update on your Facebook page. 1-2-3, Triple Play!

How to do it:
Create a blog post automatically from your email. In Blogger.com: under the "Settings" tab of the dashboard, under "Posting Options", you can specify an email address which will take any email you send to it and post it to your blog. The subject line of your email becomes the blog post. The body of the email becomes the content of the blog. In Blogger, this can be fully automatic, or you can be extra careful (and less efficient) and have the email content post as a draft in your blog, ready for your approval. You choose. It is a very convenient feature of most blogging sites. It even works with any photos contained in your email.

Create a Facebook status update automatically out of a blog posting. On Facebook, you can link your registered blog with your Facebook account using an application called NetworkedBlogs (Link). You start in Facebook and this site: http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/. Click on "Register a Blog" and add the URL of your blog. Give the Blog a name and identify the language. It is free. When you complete the process,  your blog posts will be included on your Facebook page.