Facebook Connecting

Posted on February 12, 2009
Filed Under Juvenile Diabetes, Real Estate & Property Management, Web 2.0 Consulting Services, Web 2.0 Stuff | Leave a Comment

fb_buttonI will admit, I am a little bit of a Facebook addict.  Certainly not for the silly games, ninja wars, sheep throwing and poking.  But for the idea of connecting with people.

I run multiple, and very different, areas of my life and they all seem to come together on both Facebook and Twitter.  Everything from my work in real estate and property management, to juvenile diabetes, to the committees and boards that I serve on for all things related to real estate and diabetes research.

The problem is that sometimes you can spend all day on Facebook and feel like you’re working…when you’re really not.  However, on the flip side of that coin, it can also do a lot of good.  Especially when it comes to bringing together your random groups of peeps and driving more traffic to your site.

I have found that I can get all of my random groups of peeps to come together when they read this blog, stay connected to their peeps and bring them along to my blog.  This is all thanks to a fun little thing called Facebook Connect that was released to users at the beginning of December 2008.  Beware, it can waste your time in trying to get it set up on your blog.  Believe me, I’ve been there.  But, once FBConnect is set up, then your blog visitors can use a single sign on or OpenID service to post comments and share those comments on their Facebook wall.  If they are posting their to both your blog and their Facebook wall at the same time, all that does is drive more traffic to your blog and that is what you want, right?!

Facebook does come in handy for more than just cyberstalking your high school buddies.  Get in there and try it.  As far as installing it, I would consult Google for that one.

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