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The Road to Blog Integration
So how do you simplify life a bit? One thing I'm working on is using my Voxtropolis blog as a hub of my writing and true blogging. Here at M I was unsure how to do that. There is an RSS reader in the bottom left, but that's too hidden for me.
For now I'm using a widget by SpringWidgets that I created in a few fairly easy steps.
How do you integrate your networking and blogging life?
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Permalink Reply by Alex McManus on -
Nice. Very helpful. I'm using the same tool.
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Permalink Reply by Nicolas Nelson on -
How do I integrate networking and blogs?? I give up any hope of developing a decent networking presence, and I laboriously cut and paste from one blog to the other and hope the photos and formatting don't get messed up.
I am an alien in these here parts. Take me to your widget!
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Permalink Reply by Nicolas Nelson on
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Okay, I went to SpringWidgets and despite a dearth of explaining, it doesn't seem too difficult.
Just one possible hitch: in the left gutter of the window, just below "Step 1: Configure Widget", there is "Step 2: Share Widget". There are eight little icons of various networking sites: I recognized myspace and Blogger and Xanga. How do I get Voxtropolis on there? Or what code do I paste in the text box below, to make my widget appear on M? or on Voxtropolis? (or do I use Voxtropolis as my "Feed URL" and paste that widget into Xanga and M?)
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Permalink Reply by Parke on -
I wasn't able to find the exact spot you mentioned, but there are two main options. If you want to embed the code in your site, then HTML is the option you want. You should be able to create your Voxtropolis blog (as I've done) by using the RSS feed that should look something like this http://parke.voxtropolis.com/feed/ with your name replacing mine.
Does that help?
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Permalink Reply by Nicolas Nelson on
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"You should be able to create your Voxtropolis blog (as I've done) by using the RSS feed that should look something like this http://parke.voxtropolis.com/feed/ with your name replacing mine."
Yup I guessed that much. But then I clicked on the little icon saying "Xanga", under "Share My Widget", and it gave me a happy little confirmation dialog box: the widget successfully exported to my Xanga blog. But the widget does not appear anywhere on my Xanga page, whether blog or profile.
How about getting my voxtropolis blog to be the feed for my M page? There is a place at the top of my M page that says "click here to add widgets or whatever to your M page" (okay, I'm paraphrasing) but there is no "edit" button like it tells me to look for, and clicking in the field itself does nothing.
...ah, now Voxtropolis is not responding at all. Server error? My old computer?
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Permalink Reply by Parke on
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Here's the answer to what I think you're asking but we'll see:
Most programs like Xanga or M require you to past code into a box of some kind. In Myspace, it's in the about section. In Xanga, I think there is a header area but I'm not positive. In M, you can click on "edit" on that main center top section of your page and paste in code.
To get the code, look at your widget. Click "options" in the bottom left of your widget. Click "get embed code." Click the appropriate type. (For M, it's just html). Copy the code. And then paste it in the appropriate box.
Are we getting warmer here?
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Permalink Reply by Nicolas Nelson on
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Gaah... deadline bearing down on me... have entered writing trance... hope to emerge unscathed by monday... thanks... patience...
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Permalink Reply by Chris McElroy on -
I have to manage a number of blogs that I own plus a lot of client blogs in my everyday business. You're right it isn't easy to manage. I have to use a spreadsheet just to have all the passwords and logins for the blogs, let alone keep up with all the posts made by bloggers who work for us. There are good ways to add all of your blogs in one place though. Try http://www.bloglines.com. There you can add all of your blogs and see them all in one place.
There are also cool tools like remotekeys. It's a macro tool that has a bunch of buttons. Each button allows you to insert text in two fields. The text you put into remote keys is always available at the touch of a button. It types it in for you. So all of that stuff you type over and over again like bible verses, links, signatures, etc. can be typed for you by clicking a button. Each button even lets you put in one set of text for the left click and another set of text for the right click of the same button. You can get that here http://www.freewarehits.de/RemoteKeys.htm
You can also manage your blogs a different way with a small investment. You need your own domain name and hosting account. Then you go to http://www.autobloggerpro.com and purchase autobloggerpro software. You have to license it for your domain name. It installs a wordpress blog on your domain name but has a couple of added features.
You go into the admin area once it is installed. Type in all the addresses to your blogs. It will find the feeds that are available at each blog. You select use this feed for each one. Then every time you push the button called run autobloggerpro, it pulls a summary of all the posts made on those blogs since the last time you ran the software and posts those summaries into your new wordpress blog with a link to the blog the summary came from. It's also another way to push traffic to your blogs. You can get permission from other bloggers to also pull their feeds and link to them.
It also comes with relinker software. You go into admin/relinker and add any word you want and associate that word with a link to any webpage you want. Every time that word appears on your blog it will be underlined and linked to that webpage automatically.
Anyway, those are some tools that help me manage multiple blogs. Hope that helps.
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