Thursday, April 18, 2013

Missionary Controlled Blog

This is something I helped someone do the other day so I thought I would let everyone know how to do it. What this does it let you send an email which automatically updates your blog and then even posts it on facebook if you want..
Make a blog
This is a blogger/blogspot tutorial so go to blogger.com and make your blog.

Set it up for email posting
Go to your blogger dashboard, then click the arrow for more options and select "Settings". On the left of the settings page click on "Mobile and email". Last make up a secretWord then select "Public email immediately". From then on you can just send an email to that email address and it will update your blog.


Updating to Facebook
I searched long and hard and found RSS Grafiti. Go to their Facebook App.  Click "Add New Publishing Plan" and name it. Get you blog feed address, by using a link like this: yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default .On RSS Grafiti under your new plan click "add new" source and enter that link to your feed.  I suggest changing the "Update Frequency" to "As soon as possible". Lastly click "add new" next to target and select your facebook account. You are now done.





Conclusion
You can now send an email to the secret email address from before, and it will post it to your blog and then update your facebook about it soon after. For missionaries this would make keeping a mission blog to update all your friends super easy. Best part you can even email pictures and they will show up.Go and serve.

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