Auto-filtering your Social Marketing and Blogs so you only post once

If you want to start doing social marketing for your business, you've likely been told that you need to  join them all, but you think, it sure sounds like a waste of time posting to Facebook AND Twitter AND LinkedIn AND your blog when you want to publicize something.  Well you don't have to. 

Since someone just asked me for this today, I thought I'd post the methodology we use at AJDesign.
Topics included in this post are:  (skip ahead if you're already a go-getter!) 

I. Twitter to Facebook

II. Facebook to Twitter

III. Twitter to LinkedIn

IV.  Blog to Facebook or Twitter

I. Steps to filter Twitter posts (Tweets) to Facebook wall if you use Twitter more: 

1. Login to Twitter
2. Click on View my profile page (top left)
3. Click on Edit my profile (top right)
4. Click Post your tweets to Facebook (bottom right)
5. Click Sign in to Facebook and Connect your accounts
6. Fill in Email and Password and click Login
7. And click the box of either profile or page that you want to post to
8. If FB pages don’t show up in that list, try again (sometimes they don’t)
9. Click disconnect any time you wish to end this service

II. Steps to filter Facebook posts to Twitter thread if you use Facebook more:

1. Log in to Facebook
2. Type in FBtoTweet in the search bar and click “go to app”
3. Click Sign in with Twitter and login
4. Click Authorize App
5. Click “Click here to manage pages”
6. Click Allow
7. Click on pages you want to sync with Twitter
8. Anytime you want to stop this or if you’re noticing double the tweets, come back to the app page and click “Stop Auto Updates” on the top right or click “Disable” next to any account you wish to disconnect.

NOTE: Don’t do both I & II, or you’ll have double the posts (for half the pleasure)!

III.  Steps to filter your Tweets to LinkedIn:

1. Log in to LinkedIn
2. Hover over your name (top right) and click Settings
3. Make sure "Profile" tab is selected on bottom left and click "manage Twitter settings" bottom right
4. Click "Add a Twitter Account"
5. Plug in your Twitter user name and password and click Authorize App
6. Click Save Changes
7. Come back to this settings tab when you want to "remove" any account you have filtering here.

IV. Steps to filter your blog to Facebook or Twitter by using FB’s “Networked Blogs” App:

1. Type in https://www.facebook.com/networkedblogs into browser
2. Click Go To App on top right
3. Click Blogger Dashboard on top right
4. Click Register a new blog
5. Fill in the blog web address
6. Fill in information
7. Claim the authorship
8. Either A) have a friend confirm you or B) place the widget on your blog site
9. If B) Click Verify Now
10. Once confirmed or verified, click Syndication (top left)
11. Choose the blog you’d like to syndicate and click either Add Facebook Target or Add Twitter Target
    (whichever is first in your filtering stream above)
    (don’t do both if you have done the filtering either way above)
12. Click “Add” next to the page you would like the blog to filter to
13. Customize the post if you so choose

More reading on managing your own marketing:

Social Media 101 

Online Management Tools

Internal Linking for better SEO

Mobile Twitter Tips