One of the key things when you start blogging is to get your name out into the blogosphere as quickly as possible.
Now at first this seems easy, but when you get going it can be as labour intensive as actually writing the content.
Eventually you may find that you start to slip with the promotion or on the reverse side spend to much time promoting and not enough time writing.
Being somewhat lazy efficient:-) I went looking for ways to streamline the whole content syndication, although I prefer to call it "Shoving your content out", thing.
So after an extensive amount of googling! I came across a service called Onlywire.
Onlywire is a service that automates the whole shoving of your content, it will automatically post your blog posts to a vast array of social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, Digg and Mister Wong to name but a few.
It does the whole Twitter and Facebook things as well should you wish to.
How does it work? Well, the good thing about the Onlywire service is that it is really easy to use.
Once you have registered, it is free but there is a paid service which I will cover later in the post, you can install a Firefox or IE browser plugin or simply drag the "bookmarklets" to the bookmarks area on the browser.
A little note, Onlywire offer two ways of submitting content from the browser.
The first is "No frames" and the second is "With Frames".
Its not difficult and the easiest way to describe it is as follows: No Frames - When you bookmark a link it will redirect you to the Onlywire site where you login and add the submission.
With Frames - Does the bookmarking within the page that you are on, without redirecting you to the Onlywire site You will need to configure from within your Onlywire account the sites/networks that you want to syndicate/shove your content out to, but that is not difficult as they have a full list of the available networks.
The second way is to use the "Bookmark & Share" button.
This button can be installed on your blog or website and presents your visitors with a range of options to share your content.
Installation of the button on wordpress is easy, just download and install the Onlywire plugin.
Configure the plugin by entering your Onlywire username and password and you are good to go.
From now on the plug-in will automatically post all your new content to the sites that you have configured in your Onlywire account.
As I have not used the service on non-WordPress platforms, I cannot comment on how easy or difficult it is to set-up, but full instructions are available on the Onlywire website.
Pricing Use of the Onlywire service is "free", the reason I have quoted that it because the free version is ad supported and you must install the "Bookmark and Share" button on your website or blog as apparently they check! and will disable your account if they cannot find it.
If you don't want the ads you can pay for the service which is $2.
99 per month or $24.
99 if you prepay for 12 month, which is a quite reasonable considering the amount of time it can save you.
So that's Onlywire, a great little service to help spread your content around, and well worth looking into.
Now at first this seems easy, but when you get going it can be as labour intensive as actually writing the content.
Eventually you may find that you start to slip with the promotion or on the reverse side spend to much time promoting and not enough time writing.
Being somewhat lazy efficient:-) I went looking for ways to streamline the whole content syndication, although I prefer to call it "Shoving your content out", thing.
So after an extensive amount of googling! I came across a service called Onlywire.
Onlywire is a service that automates the whole shoving of your content, it will automatically post your blog posts to a vast array of social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, Digg and Mister Wong to name but a few.
It does the whole Twitter and Facebook things as well should you wish to.
How does it work? Well, the good thing about the Onlywire service is that it is really easy to use.
Once you have registered, it is free but there is a paid service which I will cover later in the post, you can install a Firefox or IE browser plugin or simply drag the "bookmarklets" to the bookmarks area on the browser.
A little note, Onlywire offer two ways of submitting content from the browser.
The first is "No frames" and the second is "With Frames".
Its not difficult and the easiest way to describe it is as follows: No Frames - When you bookmark a link it will redirect you to the Onlywire site where you login and add the submission.
With Frames - Does the bookmarking within the page that you are on, without redirecting you to the Onlywire site You will need to configure from within your Onlywire account the sites/networks that you want to syndicate/shove your content out to, but that is not difficult as they have a full list of the available networks.
The second way is to use the "Bookmark & Share" button.
This button can be installed on your blog or website and presents your visitors with a range of options to share your content.
Installation of the button on wordpress is easy, just download and install the Onlywire plugin.
Configure the plugin by entering your Onlywire username and password and you are good to go.
From now on the plug-in will automatically post all your new content to the sites that you have configured in your Onlywire account.
As I have not used the service on non-WordPress platforms, I cannot comment on how easy or difficult it is to set-up, but full instructions are available on the Onlywire website.
Pricing Use of the Onlywire service is "free", the reason I have quoted that it because the free version is ad supported and you must install the "Bookmark and Share" button on your website or blog as apparently they check! and will disable your account if they cannot find it.
If you don't want the ads you can pay for the service which is $2.
99 per month or $24.
99 if you prepay for 12 month, which is a quite reasonable considering the amount of time it can save you.
So that's Onlywire, a great little service to help spread your content around, and well worth looking into.
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