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Extend the reach of your news releases with direct-connect to your
Twitter account.
How to Use TwitterFeed.com to Connect Your News Releases to Your Twitter Account
with RSS.
How-to Video for ExpertClick Members.
February 8, 2011
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What’s RSS? Real Simple Syndication.
Well maybe not so simple, but here goes:
• First: Here is a PowerPoint that shows the relevant screens.
• Second: A narrated video to walk through the steps.
• Third: Free video training sessions with Go To Meeting.
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Here’s what you need to have to start:An ExpertClick account where you’ve already send a new
release, so we’ve activated your RSS Button.
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When you click on the orange button, you see the RSS screen – your personal RSS feed that shows only your news releases. (this RSS Feed
URL is only available when you have send news releases.)
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You need to have a Twitter Account: (Like this one I set up with the handle @SampleExpert
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You need to set up an account at www.TwitterFeed.com…and I’m going to do this step by step.
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Ok, now you’ve got the parts:
• The RSS Feed URL from your ExpertClick profile that shows your news releases.
• Your Twitter account that is the target you want to connect to.
• And you’ve set up a new TwitterFeed.com account.
• So, here goes: I’m going to walk through all the screens to set up the TwitterFeed Account and make the RSS Connections.
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Write down the E-mail you are going to use as your Handle at www.TwitterFeed.com.
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Enter your e-mail and password, then click the: “create account” button.
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Then your need to name your Feed – You make this up.I’ll call mine: ExpertRSS
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Then I go to my ExpertClick profile:
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Where I click on the RSS Button, and go to the RSS feed that only shows my news releases.
http://www.expertclick.com/RssFeed.aspx?type=releases&nrwid=1438
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Then copy the RSS link into Twitter Feed.
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You can test to see if you did it correctly on the test button. You should get the Green OK.
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Then go to step Two
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Make sure you are logged into the Twitter account you want to connect to now, so when you connect TwitterFeed will
connect to the right account
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Then click on Blue Button as this is the first time you are connecting to a Twitter account and you do not have any Twitter Accounts already
authenticated.
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Then Twitter will ask if you want to allow TwitterFeed to connect. (this is why you want to be logged into the account
you want to connect to.)
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Then your Twitter account will be authenticated.
You must remove the UTM tags.
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Then verify the UTM tags are removed.Then click the Create Service
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Now you see: “all done”
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Then click on Dashboard to see the set up:
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Here’s your Dashboard:
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Click edit to see…
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Then you are back to edit…
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Ok, so we did all of that. Does it work?Here’s a new release…
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Then from the TwitterFeed Dashboard I clicked “check now” so I would not have to wait for the system to do
three regular 30 minute scan.
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The link is a shortened URL from Bit.ly that goes to your news release.
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Yes, and presto, up comes your news release.
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