One of the challenges of using social media is having a clear process for updating all your various social media sites, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. I found this great article which made a lot of sense. It took some doing but well worth it. In short:

• My blog is ‘Home Base’ and the place for sharing ideas, great people and great places that I bump into.
• My ‘Outposts’ are Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and I want them to connect across and at the edge of my social circle, and drive people to the blog site, its all about me!!.

The process:

1. I do my blog entry in Microsoft Word, as it can publish straight out of Word to my WordPress site, with all the goodies like spell check and hyperlinking
2. WordPress ‘shares’ to Twitter with a tiny URL that links back to the original blog post
3. Twitter then updates Facebook and LinkedIn with the Tweet, and the URL back to the blog post.

Job done, now all I have to do, is actually post something interesting on the blog site, on a regular basis……maybe tomorrow.

Big problem with Facebook, no spell check. However, if you have a WordPress Blog, you can post using Microsoft Word, complete with spell checker!!

Simply go to Newà Blog Post and type your Post

Now here is a blog post with a difference!!

For years I have been banging away at the keyboard at approximately 40 words per minute. Now, thanks to the miracle of speech recognition I can hammer out words at about 135 words per minute.

In fact, for this entire blog post I have not touched the keyboard once to type anything. Of course this begs the question of whether I am going to increase the number of logs that I post, and make a greater contribution to the online communities or whether I’m just adding to the noise and general flotsam and jetsam of the Internet.

Anyway, at least I might hold off the scourge of repetitive strain injury for a few more years yet!