Doug Anderson gives you a visual on how to update many social media websites all at once

Bubbl.us Feeds

I made this mapping with a neat little (free) website called www.bubbl.us:

It shows you how to connect multiple websites together, so that they update one another.

They call this “Automatic Cross-Posting”. It basically means you can set up one website to “feed” another the link.  These sites aren’t usually all blogs per se, but social networking sites, such as Facebook.

You need an account at each of these sites (at least, the ones you want to chain together), then simply go to the preferences in each website and configure it to automatically update some or all of their options.

Let’s walk through an example. Get an account at Utterli, and you’ll be able to “phone in” audio blogs. Go to “Apps * Widgets >> Cross-Posting” and add other accounts such as Blip.tv, Flickr.com, or Tumblr.com.  You have to already have accounts at these websites, but that’s easy to set up.

Then go to your Blip.tv account, and have it feed Del.icio.us and Flickr.com under “Distribute”.

Then go to your Tumblr.com account and have Del.icio.us feed it (sort of a pull instead of a push) under “Feeds”.

Enable your FriendFeed.com account to under “Account” to have everything except Twitter and Facebook update your FriendFeed.

Almost there… Have FriendFeed update Twitter, and Twitter update Facebook.

Hopefully that can get you all connected.  Now you’ll only have to update your social media in one place, and have it post to many other sites, such as the ones I’ve mentioned.

Doug Anderson