The beast’s name is TwitterFacebookYoutubeRSSFlickr.
It hides in the sites where you network, using tweets or updates, videos or photos to increase your followers/friends/hits.
These are great sites, and, if you work them, they will definitely work for you.
BUT they can easily consume a precious hour or more every day, cutting into the your studio time. That would be the beast part.
At the 2009 smARtist telesummit, networking visibility expert Nancy Marmolejo gave some fabulous tips for taming it.
Here’s one:
Feed your tweets into your Facebook page using the “Twitter” application within Facebook.
1. You’ll find Facebook applications on your home page, in the very bottom left corner.
2. Click on it and a menu pops up.
3. Pick “Browse more applications.”
4. On the next page, type “Twitter” into the search box.
5. On the results page, find the Twitter application. Make sure it’s the application by Twitter–there are some imposters.
6. Click on it. On the page that appears, click on “Go to application.”
7. Enter your Twitter username and password. [It’s OK, you’re giving these to Twitter. They own and run this application.]
8. Voila! All your tweets will also appear as Facebook updates.
Now that’s pretty neat. But there’s a drawback.
If you’re one of the people who tweet a lot, you’re going to have a lot of Facebook updates. Everything you tweet shows up on your Facebook page. Whether or not it makes sense. This can annoy some people so much they hide you on their Facebook page.
But there’s another nifty Facebook application that fixes this. It’s called “Selective Twitter Status.” If you use this application instead when you get to step #5 above, you can choose which tweets go to your Facebook page. When you tweet, just add #fb to the end of the ones you want to show up in Facebook.
Voila!
The beast, tamed two ways.
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When it comes to tips and tricks for your art career, nothing’s better than those 7 days of the smARTist Telesummit 2009!