Posts tagged social media machinery

Step 1: Visit LinkedIn.com and Click the Blue Twitter Button

Step 2: Allow LinkedIn to Connect to Your Twitter Account

Step 3: Make your Twitter account visible to everyone and decide if you would like some or all your Tweets sent to LinkedIn.

If you would only like a select few Tweets to be sent to your Linkedin,chose “Only Tweets that contain #in”. Now, only if you use the #in hashtag in your Tweet, it will go to LinkedIn. (Best option Linkedin types aren’t interested in your every tweet - this is your business profile, so just tweet Linkedin relevant content).

Step 4: Send a test tweet with hashtag #in.

Step 5: Check your LinkedIn profile to see if your status is your most recent Tweet.

By sending tweets to your LinkedIn status, your profile is more dynamic and you can frequently update your network about what you’re doing.

Step 6: Select the checkbox on LinkedIn.com to allow your LinkedIn Status to update your Twitter Account.

Now, whenever you update your LinkedIn Status, it will also update your Twitter Account.

What do you think? Will you link your accounts? Will you send all your Tweets to LinkedIn or only a few? Why?

article posted by Rebecca Corliss to inbound marketing blog and reproduced

In the spirit of recycling -and on the back of the linkedin/twitter link up announcements - here is a post I prepared much much earlier (7th October 2009) on the subject of social media machinery.

Busy busy …
I’ve been busy today, tidying up my online profile across a number of platforms. I always struggle with a collective noun for the blogs, microblogs, network profiles, share sites and bookmarking doodads that make up online activity. I’ve decided on platform for now - if you’ve got a better, more elegant word for it all, please leave a comment and let me know. I’ll start using it immediately.

While connecting my facebook public profile with my twitter and trying to find a ‘follow me’ widget I might like to sprinkle across my platforms, it struck me that I have gone about creating my online profile in a most haphazard way. Anyone following my digital footprint would be forgiven for thinking they were tracking a hopeless, digitally ambiguous, drunk. This magpie approach has been really useful for me. I’ve picked up on new opportunities as I’ve found them, had fun learning new things and grown in confidence and authority with some ‘new’ communication channels.

All of which has helped me offer sane and simple advice, when asked, on how to use the social media, emerging media channels available online to ‘make some noise’ or to research and engage with stakeholders. So before you link your twitter to your linkedin account and start weaving your profile together all over the internet, take a moment to do some joined up thinking about what is really going to work for you. Next page: Start with a stakeholder plan…

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