For the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with social media. If you notice on the right hand side, there are little icons for the networks I’m currently in.

Facebook is nice for connecting with friends.  Especially ones from high school and college.

Twitter is good for thoughts.

LinkedIn is pure business.

Steam is gaming goodness.  Love my TF2 as you can tell by my achievements.

Probably one of the more interesting aspects of all of this is how you can link them together.  For instance what I’m doing.  I have my “tweets” or Twitter updates posting to Facebook as my status.  Then I have a WordPress plugin called LifeStream that reads my Twitter and Steam feeds and presents them in my blog on that LifeStream tab above plus it makes a daily digest post of what’s going on.

LifeStream is pretty good for integrating multiple social media networks into your blog.  It can work with Facebook, but because of how I have twitter pushing to Facebook, it results it duplicate status updates.  Oh well.  I may send that into the developers to see if they can filter or I may try to hack it myself.  With their next version they are fixing their Games for Windows / XBox Live support so I’ll be able to add my Fallout 3 achievements along with my Steam TF2 ones. 

If I start to feel really brave with this, I may start doing some photo blogging too.  Everyone might want to duck and cover when I start doing that one.  It will probably be very scary.

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