Linking Your Blog to Social Media - Guest Blogger - Taylor Tucker

Taylor Tucker


Connecting your blog to social medias
To get your blog noticed, it helps to connect it with facebook, twitter, and other social medias. It is always a good idea to have your blog connected with services like these, because of the popularity and huge member database. Comment Integration is the main purpose why everyone does this. Its so visitors can easily put a comment on your blog using their facebook or even their twitter. Visitors will no longer have to use many different accounts; this way they can use one account to link to many others. Some services that allow for this to happen are, WP Facebook Connect (Word Press), Intense Debate, the one that we use, Blogger, and Disquis. These are all services that help you to connect your blog to other social medias very easily. There are other ways you can do this but these are strongly recommended.
Connecting your blog to facebook isn’t just for teens either. This is also very common I the business world. Many companies or self owned business do this so they can be noticed more than they are. Other reasons for using this is because its simplicity, Pro-effect, meaning this leaves your blog looking “professional”. This is not only telling people how to connect your blog to facebook, but also its introducing people to facebook and twitter who have yet to discover it yet. There are many different social medias out there and connecting them all together makes them even better.

"Bring Out Your Dead"

Last week, our media specialist visited the English department and all of our classes to give us the lowdown on new copyright laws. She did a fantastic job because I sort of understand what I can and can't do online now.

The students were pretty surprised and overwhelmed by the information. They are the cut-and-paste generation, after all. From what I can tell, their belief is that if you find it on the internet, then:

1. it must be credible.
2. it must be free for me to use without giving any credit at all.
3. it must be posted onto facebook in some form or fashion.

So, after much discussion about what is and what isn't intellectual property, they had one question for me:

What CAN we put on our blogs?

I was happy to show them a site that a fellow teacher introduced me to last week.

World, meet MORGUEFILE.COM. It's where good pictures go after they die - to be resurrected elsewhere.

Maybe I'm late to the party, but this site is amazing. It's filled with beautiful artistic photos that people are no longer actively using -hence the name. Now, my students and I can enjoy some real pics without the real law-breaking that might otherwise occur.