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Posting across Social Networks - Web Team Procedures and Notes

This page is intended for use only by the Web Team.

This chart (if kept updated!) will help keep track of which application posts to which social networks as configured by the Web Team.

How Ohlone's Social Network Accounts are Setup for Cross Posting
(i.e., Which applications listed on left can post to applications listed across?)
(updated April 27, 2012)
Application Below posts to Application Across	Facebook: Ohlone College	Facebook: Renegades Athletics	Facebook: Foundation	Twitter: Ohlone College	Twitter: Ohlone Jobs	MySpace: Ohlone College	LinkedIn: Ohlone College (but we don't post to LinkedIn's Status feature)	RSS Ohlone News	RSS Renegades Atheltics
Facebook: Ohlone College (Wall/Status, Link, Event, Photos, Notes, other)	Yes (can include photo; Wall, Links, Events, more)			Yes using Fb's Tw app (but posts longer than 140 chars link to Fb so this drives traffic to FB not to Ohlone)		Yes using Tw's MyS app (Tw posts to Status only)
Facebook: Ohlone College Renegades Athletics (Wall/Status, Link, Event, Photos, Notes, other)		Yes (can include photo; Wall, Links, Events, more)		Yes using Fb's Tw app (but posts longer than 140 chars link to Fb so this drives traffic to FB not to Ohlone)		Yes using Tw's MyS app (Tw posts to Status only)
Facebook: Ohlone College Foundation (Wall/Status, Link, Event, Photos, Notes, other)			Yes (can include photo; Wall, Links, Events, more)	No (but can be configured using Fb's Tw app)		No (but can be configured (AFTER Tw is configured) using Tw's MyS app)
Twitter: Ohlone College	No (but can be configured using Tw app)	No (but can be configured using Tw app)	No (but can be configured using Tw app)	Yes		Yes using Tw's MyS app) (Tw posts to Status only)
Twitter: Ohlone Jobs	No (but can be configured using Tw app)	No (but can be configured using Tw app)	No (but can be configured using Tw app)		Yes	No (but can be configured using Tw's MyS app)
MySpace: Ohlone College (Status, Blog, etc.)						Yes
FeedForAll (desktop s/w)								Yes	Yes
RSS Ohlone News	Yes, using RSS Grafitti Fb app, posts to Wall.			No. RSS feed posts imported into Fb do not also post to Tw.				Yes using FeedForAll
RSS Renegades Athletics	Yes, using RSS Grafitti Fb app, posts to Wall.	Yes, using RSS Grafitti Fb app, posts to Wall.		No. RSS feed posts imported into Fb do not also post to Tw.					Yes using FeedForAll
Stopped Using The Applications Below
HootSuite - IS LIMITED NOW so not used. ("Stats" only tracked for ow.ly shortened links - bit.ly and other links not tracked)	Yes (Wall only; cannot include photo)	Yes (Wall only; cannot include photo)	Yes (Wall only; cannot include photo)	Yes (without cross posts from Fb to Tw - I don't know why though; but posts longer than 140 chars are cut off so best to post these on Fb)	Yes (Wall only; cannot include photo)	Yes (Status only; NOTE: Also using Tw's MyS app so DO NOT post to MyS unless the post is ONLY for MyS)	No (but can be configured in HootSuite)
Ping.fm - default setting	Yes (Status only)			Yes (with cross posts from Fb to Tw - so do not use Ping.fm default)		Yes (Status only - 140 chars max; posts over 140 chars are cut off)	No (but can be configured)
Ping.fm - FbMyS group	Yes (Status only)			No (it can but don't set this up because Fb posts to Tw)		Yes (Status only - 140 chars max; posts over 140 chars are cut off so I've stopped using Ping.fm in favor of HootSuite)	No (but can be configured)