I’m pleased to announce, that in addition to my Marketing and Social Media consulting business, I have now launched a new venture called WebinarListings. Through hosting a few of my own Webinars (online seminars), I noticed that there was no central website for hosts to promote their webinars, or for people to find out about them. So, I created one! Today is the beta launch of my site, and it will eventually be FULL of a variety of Webinars for all interest areas (business, health, technology, etc), in any part of the world. Right now it happens to be focused on marketing, social media, technology because that is where my connections are, but that will soon change. Webinars are a great way to learn new things right from your computer AND are free most of the time.
So, if you’re interested, I invite you to check out the site, and connect with me in any way you choose (many options below!), especially by signing up for the weekly newsletter. During the beta period, the more traffic and registrations/followers I build, the more interest hosts will have to list their webinars with me… so I’m counting on you! If you hear of any Webinars being put on, please pass them my way so I can contact the host. And feel free to tweet, blog, facebook update, talk, or spread the word in any way.
I’m also running an introduction promotion for this week only (through the 14th) — use promo code “intro50″ for your Featured Webinar listing and get 50% off your Webinar.
I’m really excited about this, as it is really putting to use the skills I have in social media, marketing and Webinars. I’m looking forward to seeing where this takes me!
WebinarListings contact info:
Let me know what you think! I’ll take all the feedback I can get.
Are you wondering why I’m writing a post about how to cross-post, when I JUST wrote one about how I’m not a fan of cross-posting? Well, for starters, some of these tactics are temporary, meaning you turn them on and off for each update, so it’s not just a flow of ALL of your updates. And, second, I thought it would be helpful to have all of this in one place to keep track of it! And third, to me, even some of the “permanent” cross-post tactics (such as Blog to LinkedIn) can be useful. So, if you do decide to cross-post after reading my post here’s how:
Twitter to Facebook Profile
- Individual updates
- Tweetdeck Desktop – Add your profile to your Tweetdeck account by clicking on the plus at the top of the screen. Once your account has been added, you can toggle each account on and off by clicking on the account name.
- Tweetdeck for iPhone – Go to the settings page and add your Facebook account. When updating your status, select your Facebook account.
- Selective Tweets – Install the Selective Twitter application in your Facebook account. Once you’ve done that, any Twitter update you make with #fb, will also update your Facebook status.
- There are many other mobile and desktop applications that do this, such as Seesmic Desktop, Hootsuite, and many more.
- Permanent
- Install this Twitter application in your Facebook account. Once you’ve done that, EVERY Twitter update you make, will also update your Facebook status. CAUTION, this can be annoying to your Facebook friends.
Twitter to Facebook Fan Page
- Tweetdeck Desktop – see above. Hootsuite also does this.
Facebook Fan Page to Twitter
- Individual updates- There is currently no way to update Twitter from your Facebook Fan Page on an individual update basis.
- Permanent
Twitter to LinkedIn
- Tweetdeck Desktop – see above. Hootsuite also does this.
- Adjust your settings in LinkedIn. Once you’ve added your Twitter account, you can choose to have all or some of your updates flow to LinkedIn. Again, I CAUTION the use of permanent update cross-posting. For individual updates to flow to LinkedIn, simply use #in or #li when you update your Twitter status.
LinkedIn to Twitter
- This functionality is built right into LinkedIn now, so each update you make on LinkedIn, you can select if you want it to also post to Twitter, by checking the check box below your update.
Twitter to Blog
- Add a widget to your blog that displays your recent tweets by installing the “Twitter for Wordpress” plugin on your blog. Your tweets will stream into a widget on the side of your blog, similar to mine on the bottom right.
- You can also install the Wibya toolbar (see mine at the bottom of this page) which shows your Twitter updates. If you want to know more about the Wibya toolbar, take a look at my post on the topic. Another similar toolbar is the Meebo Bar.
Facebook Fan Page to Blog
- This is possible using the Wibya toolbar or the Meebo Bar. See above.
Facebook Profile to Blog
- This is possible using the Wibya toolbar or the Meebo Bar. See above.
Blog to Twitter
- Twitterfeed - You can easily automate the posting of your blog to Twitter by setting up a feed on Twitterfeed.
Blog to Facebook Profile
- Create a Facebook note for each of your blog posts by following these instructions: In the “Applications” menu (in the bottom bar), choose “Notes.”, under “Notes Settings,” click on “Import a blog” and enter your feed address. For more detailed instructions and screen shots, see this post.
- Wordbooker – This is a Wordpress plugin that imports your blog posts to Facebook. The difference in this versus using Notes, is that your posts get a separate area on your profile, and any comments are imported back into your blog. (Thanks to @tpapi for the suggestion!)
Blog to Facebook Fan Page
Blog to LinkedIn
Not possible at this time (if you know of a way to do these, please let me know in the comments!):
- Facebook Profile to LinkedIn
- Facebook Profile to Twitter
- Facebook Profile to Facebook Fan Page
- Facebook Fan Page to Facebook Profile
- Facebook Fan Page to LinkedIn
- LinkedIn to Facebook Profile
- LinkedIn to Facebook Fan Page
- LinkedIn to Blog
You may also be familiar with Ping.fm, which allows you to update 50 social media sites at once. You just post it once, and it updates the sites you choose. So, obviously this is a great way to cross-post. A few weeks ago, Seesmic acquired Ping.fm, so the Ping.fm functionaility will be incorporated into Seesmic in a few weeks, making it a great option to cross-post. Ping.fm is currently incorporated into Hootsuite as well.
Did I leave anything out? I plan on keeping this updated over time, so please let me know if I have missed anything!
