Publish wordpress posts to social networks

Worpdress is great for quick publishing and a variety of plugins are available that let users publish to various platforms. The image above, extracted from the gigya website, illustrates the versatily of social networks. Gigya itself provides a plugin for Wordpress. The technique is commonly described as cross posting, meaning one post on wordpress notifyes various social networks. Cross post plugins include:

• WordBook : cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall.
• Same for wordbooker
• Wordpress to myspace publishes  posts to myspace
• Ping FM is a free  service that publishes posts to social networks. Wordpress has a few plugins that integrate with ping.fm, check this out

Statistics are an important part of social networking : no point developping web presence without knowing where you go

• Facebook Share Stats : provides charts and numbers  on your posts shared on Facebook, with statistics and charts about the number of “like“, comments and clicks received.

Interesting links

• Summary of blog / social interaction by Rachel Levy