I’ve been testing the cross-posting workaround I found for about a week. The idea is, you compose just one post and you can replicate it on any number of your other blogging accounts. These days, people would have multiple social networking accounts (Facebook, MySpace, Multiply, Friendster etc.) and frankly it’s a pain to logging in and out of different accounts with essentially the same people on your network saying the exact same things.
“Why bother?”, you might ask. Because these days ‘googling yourself’ isn’t just a dirty word any more. Employers and co-workers have steadily relied on the web to find out more about people they encounter. Your online reputation becomes as important as your reputation ‘IRL’ (in real life). Leaving your brand (your name, or your domain) untended in these social networking sites could be a Bad Idea – someone could use your name or your brand to post something against what you’re supposed to be. Or worse — someone hijacks your brand with the sole purpose of attacking it.
I slipped up on this once and now I’m forced to live with some guy with bad taste in music and awful design sensibilities.
So the cross-posting work-around works like this:
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