Import your blog to Facebook

I find it easier to write when I have an idea in my head of who I am writing to. If you already have an audience of friends and colleagues who are gathered at Facebook, that's a perfect starting audience for you to write to as you let your creative juices begin to flow on your new blog.

You can configure Facebook to show a new note on your profile every time you post to your blog. Keep in mind that importing your blog to facebook does not increase visitors to your actual blog pages, but it does offer your friends on facebook a convenient way to interact with you on what you've posted.

To import your blog to facebook, go to your facebook profile and complete the following steps:

1. Near the top, under the tabs, click on "Write Note"

2. A form will open on the page; look below the form and click on "Settings"

3. Find the sentence that says You can automatically import activity from YouTube, Flickr and other services to your profile. Click on the words I've put in in bold.

4. You now get another box with some icons in it. Look for the feed icon and click on it.

5. Paste your feed address where it says "public URL"

The steps above should import your most recent blog post and every future post. If you also want to import up to 25 previous posts, then click "update now" under the feed address.

As a new blogger, your blog needs content. If you're in the habit of posting notes on Facebook, consider posting them to your imported blog instead of at facebook directly so that you kill two birds with one stone. That way, the interesting thoughts, links and other media you post in your facebook notes will also be available to a wider audience that includes folks that are not connected to you there.