Thursday, July 7, 2011

Joining the Facebook age


With the recent "awesome" news about Facebook teaming up with Skype for video chatting yesterday, I thought it was time for the blog to also join the Facebook world. Thanks to Dr. Hans Rosenberg for pushing me to do this.

I finally created Academic Life in Emergency Medicine's Facebook Page. I think that it works. By clicking on the Facebook "Like" icon in the right column of this blog, your Facebook stream should import each blog post automatically. Suggestions for improvement on the Facebook Page are welcome.

Building the page was a rather user-UNfriendly process. Briefly, here are the steps if you are interested in building your own Facebook Page.


1. After creating a Facebook Page, click on Edit Page button in the upper right.





2. From the left column, select "Apps". One of the apps is "Notes". Click on "Go to App" under Notes.





3. In the bottom left column, click on "Edit Import Settings". This will then ask you to enter the URL of the blog that you want to import.

4 comments:

  1. Hans RosenbergJuly 7, 2011 3:15 PM

    Glad you go it working Michelle, looks good!!

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  2. Thanks Hans. I'm crossing my fingers that the delay in posting over to the FB page is only short-term. For instance, this day's post has yet to show up on the Page yet... 15 hours later.

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  3. Hans RosenbergJuly 8, 2011 7:08 AM

    Hmm, today's post isn't up either. Darn it.

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  4. Unfortunately still no luck on automatically importing blog feeds. I think I may have to manually import every few days or so.

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