TheContentGuy » HootSuite http://thecontentguy.net all things unstructured Sat, 12 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Weekly Digest for 2009-12-12 http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/11/digest-for-2009-12-10/ http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/11/digest-for-2009-12-10/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0000 paulwlodarczyk http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/11/digest-for-2009-12-10/
  • [space] Answer to mystery of Norway’s spiral light display: Was it a failed Russian Bulava missile test? | Mail Online http://ow.ly/KPqW
  • [aps] HootSuite iPhone ap launched today [one more reason to get an iPhone] http://ow.ly/KC7w
  • [WordPress] Presenting “WordPress How-to Clinic” for Bloggin’ Noggins, Dec 18 12-1:30, Bagel Bin, Brighton NY. Register: http://ow.ly/KByU
  • [space] Mystery Spiral Appears Over Norway | Discovery News [photo is mad cool] http://ow.ly/KB16
  • [gift ideas] Electrolux “Silence Amplified” vacuum with iPod dock and speakers probably sucks | Engadget http://ow.ly/KAOa
  • [search] Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search http://ow.ly/JW9n
  • [ECM] “CMIS is the recognition that ‘total enterprise solution’ is a lie” – or is it just marketing? @cmsreport via @ldallasBMOC
  • @piewords: “Taking a mandatory course from a client for all contractors. The topic, Records Management. : )” [more firms should do this]
  • @CherylMcKinnon: “Asking everyone to pause, pick a rockstar in your profession & write a sincere LinkedIn recommendation.” [great holiday gift idea]
  • [ECM] CMIS 1.0, great start but lots of room for growth. New post: http://bit.ly/8w3V8Z via @piewords
  • [twitter] HootSuite makes it so easy to update LinkedIn and Facebook status with a direct API integration http://ow.ly/JGrn
    • ]]>     http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/11/digest-for-2009-12-10/feed/ 0     Integrating Twitter on my blog and website (and LinkedIn) – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/07/integrating-twitter-on-my-blog-and-website-and-linkedin-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/07/integrating-twitter-on-my-blog-and-website-and-linkedin-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:25:35 +0000 paulwlodarczyk http://thecontentguy.net/?p=779 [Read more...]]]> There’s some good news and some bad news for those of you looking for simple integrations between Twitter, your WordPress blog / web site, and other social networking sites. The good news is that HootSuite now has a direct integration with the LinkedIn and FaceBook APIs – so you can update your status directly from HootSuite. In the past you could update LinkedIn and FaceBook indirectly through Ping.fm.  I’m now using HootSuite as THE place to post my tweets. If you recall my plumbing diagram from the last post on this topic as being complex, the one below is now MUCH simpler, thanks to HootSuite:

    status and blogging

    The bad news is that Alex King’s Twitter Tools stopped working for my weekly digest. This has been a problem for me and a number of other users. When it worked it was awesome – it worked without a hitch until it just plain stopped. First my weekly digest stopped working, then the login to Twitter stopped working so even the sidebar widget fails. Alex will only address bugs if you pay him to investigate. Ugly.

    I’ve replaced the Twitter Tools sidebar widget with Twitter Widget Pro – I love its simplicity, and it just plain works. I still need to find a reliable Twitter digest solution. For now I’m doing them manually. I’m looking into whalespine’s Twitter Digest, but don’t trust it since it’s based upon an early version of Alex King’s code. I did try using Twitterdoodle for a digest but it never actually generated one. Even if it did, Twitterdoodle doesn’t let me schedule which day to post the digest. I could live with that if it had output… if anyone out there has a solution that works please let me know.

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