Scheduling Blogger Posts So They Don't Feed Through to Facebook All At Once

Wish you could spread out your posts on your Blogger RSS feed so they are not published and posted all at once on your Facebook account? Use the "Post Options" feature at the bottom of the "New Post" edit window in Blogger.

With the "Post Options" feature you can select the "Scheduled at" radio button to bring up a drop down menu. Then select the date and time you what your post to be published. Finish by clicking the "Publish Post" button as usual.

This is a work around for all of us who have set writing schedules and business accounts that will not let us purchase HootSuite.

Using Blogger for Your School/Business Help Desk FAQ

Let's start with an example. Here is my Help Desk FAQ that I created over 4 years ago. http://libhelp.blogspot.com. Every question that a student ask us at the Library's Help Desk that relates to computers, the campus online content, saving or storing files and much more goes into this blog. Every semester I invite new Help Desk student workers to "author" a few of the posts.

It gives them the opportunity to practice their writing skills and to showcase their technical knowledge.

This blog is linked to from the library's homepage with a blogger icon and it is feed through to the library's Facebook page as well. http://library.chattanoogastate.edu

For the Facebook feed, I use the "Post Option" in blogger to schedule the posts that feed through Facebook's Apps>RSS Graffiti. Otherwise, the posts that I work on during my scheduled writing time would publish on the Facebook page all at one time.

By scheduling each post, you will avoid Facebook's new algorithm that takes multiple posts over the 2 post limit (that they want) and collapses them into one post.

There are many reasons I like Blogger for FAQ.

1.) You can email and share individual posts to students or friends.
2.) You can set them to be mobile friendly.
3.) They provide statistics.
4.) They play well with Facebook.
5.) I can give Authorship to students and staff.
6.) You can embed or use the RSS feed options with other CMS or social media programs.
7.) You can turn off comments for a more structured blog interaction.

Add Your Blogger Account To Your FaceBook Page via Notes

You can add your blogger account to your Facebook page under the Notes feature. The image above shows the 1,2,3 easy steps to importing an external blog. If you are having trouble viewing this, click on the image to enlarge it.

Posting... But Not On Blogger

I've been so busy over the last few months that I haven't posted anything new here. When I started this blog and two others, my goal was to post at least twice a month. However, as you can tell by the dates on my post this hasn't happened. In fact, I'm behind on another blog I write titled, Parenting the Gamer Generation at http://www.kidsgotgame.blogspot.com/.

What happened? you may ask. This is what happened: life, kids, new house, more volunteer work, coaching upward soccer, joined the Holmberg Art Leadership Institute, started working at my father's driving range again and other things I can't remember now. There is also my job. It takes my time too.

In addition to these activities I do try to keep up with web 2.0 tools. I do this mostly through my iPhone. After leaving the Art Institute meeting I stopped for lunch. While I waited for lunch, I posted to Twitter and Facebook about community projects that I hoped would be taken up by Chattanooga State students.

I'd love to see the social media class use Foursquares to document the public art sculptures around town. I would be thrilled to read an article by a Chattanooga State Communicator reporter on the Hart Gallery and the art lessons they line up for the homeless.

The social media or broadcasting class could invite the CreateHere non-profit to speak in class on how they use social media to post videos on Chattanooga residents. Have you seen the work they post on YouTube? Before I sign off here, I want to encourage my readers to go online and google Chattanooga. See what I've been researching. Type Chattanooga + YouTube, Google, Facebook, Foursquares and Twitter.

I bet you didn't know half of what you see.