I attended a technology workshop today at the Pennington Quilt Works. Jessica Skultety, the President of the Central Jersey Modern Quilt Guild did an excellent presentation of what are arguably the four most common social media sites for quilters. She covered Flickr, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
I’ve used Flickr and Facebook pretty extensively. I do have Pinterest and Instagram accounts, but I have really done nothing with either of those services. I have a total of seven pictures up on Instagram, and one of them was posted today during the workshop. That happened to be a photo of my newly acquired Janome Skyline S5
One thing Jessica talked about was a service that would automatically post to Facebook when one publishes a blog post. That service is called Networked Blogs. I signed up before leaving the workshop. When I got home I explored the site a bit more on my desktop, and a search for “quiltyhabit” brought me to Jessica’s blog on Networked Blogs, and I was able to follow it.
I noticed under “settings” there is an option to have Facebook Integration. That is what Jessica must have been talking about when she said it would post to Facebook for me. So this post is a test of the Facebook Integration functionality. I am hoping to see this pop up on my Facebook Timeline after I post it here.
So glad you enjoyed it. Did the FB connection work?
The FB connection did not work. That was disappointing. I can still keep posting my blog articles to my timeline. I just wish I could figure out a way to control the photo selected. I will have to do some research on that.
Perhaps I will get some new readers just because I am on the Networked Blogs aggregator. I found your blog there and followed it.
By the way, I had signed up for another blog aggregator, which I had forgotten about. If you look at my post about the Skyline S5 you will see that someone came across my blog on “QuilterBlogs”, the name of the aggregator. I found that fascinating.
Sorry it didn’t work. It must be because it is WordPress. Quilterblogs brings me lots of traffic!
I am not convinced that it is because I am using WordPress. The site does to be more geared to Blogger since they have a button to get to a Blogger dashboard. Yet they have HTML you can cut an paste for WordPress to prove your ownership of the blog. I think the reason it isn’t working for me is that I didn’t add that HTML to my site because quite frankly I am not a wizard at customization especially if it involves cutting and pasting HTML. The alternative to prove authorship was to have friends authenticate my site. I did send something to a few people including you, Krishna, and my husband. But I am not sure how that authenticates my authorship of the site. I think until they are sure it is really my site they won’t repost my posts to Facebook on my timeline. I am not in a rush to solve that problem right now though.