Facebook Fan Page Tip: Pull updates to your wall

One of our favorite local customers, John B., was having trouble pushing interesting tips from his new website (civilsay.org) to his facebook group ("Like" the group here).  

The goal was to have his site post the newest discussion topics directly to his facebook page for better exposure (and without extra effort).  Unfortunately, he found that his virtual community site was only able to publish one type of feed to facebook - and of course, it was not the content John wanted to highlight.  The facebook fan page would be boring with this particular content.

After more tries with a variety of WordPress and BuddyPress (the community site add-on) plugins, John got a little more creative and had the great idea of pulling (subscribing to) updates rather than pushing (publishing) updates.

Of course, WordPress and BuddyPress have hundreds of ways to respond to feed requests, so it was only a short amount of time before John found RSS Graffiti, a little facebook application that subscribes to remote feeds, reads them, and posts those updates to your wall.  With RSS Graffiti, it was easy to post the activity feed from buddyPress to the CivilSay group page wall.

As Sergeant Preston of the Yukon would famously say to his dog, "Well King, this case is closed".

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Alpine Workshop Schedule - This Week

Tune in from your desk each Wednesday (today!) at 10am -> http://alpineinternet.com/webinar

• Wednesday Webinar (10 to 11am) - Nothing But Net, Websites That Mean Business.   Tune in to our new weekly webinar and learn about the practical, everyday realities of creating, managing, and progressively enhancing a web site for your business.  Tune in, ask questions, learn. Interactive, remote learning with Dustin.  

Live, in-person workshops at the Alpine office on Friday, July 2nd:

• Introduction to WordPress (10 to 11am) - Morgan will be covering the basics of site building using the world famous WordPress 3.0. Learn about pages, images, multimedia, and writing effectively for a web audience.
   
• Advanced Google Analytics (11 to 12pm) - Morgan will be going over advanced features of Google Analytics and how this tool can help you measure your website's effectiveness. With Google Analytics, you're more informed and better prepared to write targeted pages, strengthen your marketing initiatives, creating higher converting websites.
   
• The Fresh Web (12 to 12:30pm) - This week on the web. The web is an ever-changing, even accelerating, networked environment. Many of these changes affect you as a web author or manager. Dustin will help put these into perspective by presenting a short review of web news for the week ending July 2nd.

These classes are free and open to the public.  No reservations required.  Remember, we have a new location at 790 SW Industrial directions >

About Alpine

Alpine Internet is a web designer and developer based in Bend Oregon. Alpine is best known for their Center Stage content management system and their contributions to open source web applications, including WordPress. Alpine workshops present best practices for beginning and intermediate webmasters and website owners. Basic concepts are explained and technology application discussions are led by Alpine's experienced staff.

About Alpine's Free Friday Workshops

Alpine workshops present best practices for beginning through intermediate webmasters and website owners. Basic concepts are explained and technology application discussions are led by Alpine's experienced staff.

About Alpine's Wednesday Worldwide Webinars

The mission of the Alpine Webinar series is to share the best of what we know in a fun, casual format similar to our in-person locals classes, but available over the web for our many clients and friends that don't have the good fortune to live in Central Oregon. Tune in each Wednesday at 10am and, from the comfort of your desk, join in the discussion. Learn, ask questions, chat and even video conference (or skype in) for some screentime with our audience.

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