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How do I import my blog entries or RSS feed into Facebook?

At Blogworld last week, I heard loud and clear from a number of people that it's a good idea to have my Facebook friends notified when I have new blog entries published. Cool. But how the heck do I do that?


Dave's Answer:

I'm just hooking this up in Facebook myself, so I have similarly spent the last half hour trying to figure out how to do it. Even using the Facebook help system, searching for things like "RSS" produce no good results.

The trick is to know that Facebook considers your external blog entries "notes", so to add it you can't just go to your profile and change a setting or two, you need to go to your "Notes" section in Facebook and tweak it.

Start on your home page in Facebook, then look on the right for "Notes":

facebook main menu (facebook blog rss)

Click on that and you'll be on your Notes area. Look half-way down on the right side and you'll see "Notes Settings":

facebook notes settings (facebook blog rss)

Click on "import a blog" and now you get the key window you seek:

facebook import an external blog (facebook blog rss)

Now, we are talking about your blog, right? :-)

Enter the URL of your blog (you don't have to worry about the RSS/XML/RDF/Atom feed address, it'll figure it out), check the "it's mine" box, and click on "Start Importing".

It'll show you a preview of the import, with a note:

facebook import an external blog preview (facebook blog rss)

Looks good? Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Confirm Import".

facebook notes imported (facebook blog rss)

That's it. You can only import one (unless you're sneaky and create a consolidated feed then import that instead, but that's beyond the scope of this article).

Good luck!



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Comments

Way to go, Dave!! Good job getting your main blog imported to Facebook. This is one of the first things I encourage peeps to do on Facebook.

You might also like to write one of your awesome simple tutorials for Note tagging at some point.

I talk about how to get more bang for yer buck in this post: Ten Steps to Leverage Your Blog Posts With Facebook Notes: http://whyfacebook.com/2008/06/09/ten-steps-to-leverage-your-blog-posts-with-facebook-notes/

Cheers,
Mari
@marismith
P.S. Truly awesome to meet ya in person last week at the BlogWorld Expo in Vegas. ;D

Posted by: Mari Smith at September 25, 2008 1:22 PM

Thanks Dave!

I have finally started using Facebook and this was a great, quick way to start pulling in content.

Posted by: Susan (5 Minutes for Mom) at October 1, 2008 11:51 AM


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