Connecting Dots

I decided to update my company website and as part of the plan I wanted to link to major social networks... being facebook and twitter, plus add an rss feed which will be from this blog. The progression went like this.

1. Get a twitter account - this is fairly straight forward, I created an account a while ago and was able to change my username to match my company website. Getting followers will be next for twitter.
2. Setup the facebook page - it's not readily apparent how to do this, I used a sidebar link on the pages page which i got to from the control on the footer bar after login. Setup is pretty straight forward, though once it's up facebook is all about getting you to advertise your page in their network. Fair enough. I linked the facebook page to twitter using a built in tool so all my wall updates now post on my twitter (killing 2 birds with one stone as it were).
3. The blog - I looked at wordpress (free and self-hosted), typepad and blogger, of course as you can tell I chose blogger. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, but I decided a free blog that didn't take server resources away from my other sites would be best. Free wordpress has limits on commercial content which finds me here on blogger.
4. The website - I built the website with concrete5 which is definately overkill for what the site will actually need. I used it to test bluehost as a service provider, formerly I had it hosted on dreamhost. Bluehost uses a simple scripts program which installs concrete5 for you, which I thought would save me lots of time as I create more and more concrete5 sites. The problem is the installer creates a bad install and I had to do it manually anyways. I'm sure sometime in the future it will be fixed but for now manual is the way to go.

The ideal solution will be to use one service (probably the blog) to produce content for the other two. I have the facebook -twitter link so now I seek a link to blogger. I'll let you know what I find.