Comments on: Great reads from around the web on August 15th

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:48:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Great! I could be wrong, but I believe Marnie does the same thing for her ext333 round ups. Good luck!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:00 +0000

In reply to Amy Sample Ward.

Yes! It was the Postalicious piece that I wasn’t sure about – thanks so much for the info!

I think I might start doing something like this on ClaireSale.com (also a wordpress site). I’ll also look into whether this is possible for NetSquared. I’ll keep you posted!

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:39:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous.

Hey Claire!

The posting of the roundups is pretty auto-magical, though you still have to be curating and pulling the content together. To make it all happen, I use two tools: first is Delicious, where I put in the content that shows up as the context pieces that go with each link. The second is a WordPress plugin called Postalicious. In the plugin settings, I put in which tag/s to track in Delicious, how many links I want in each post, what I want as the post Title and so on.

If you’re looking to do this on the NetSquared blog, I may not be of much help as I am not familiar with Drupal modules that do the same. I could always ask around for you!

Hope that helps!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:55:00 +0000

I think you mentioned awhile back that you automate these posts somehow. How do you do it? And, do you mind if I copy your tactic? (different content of course!)

Copying IS the highest form of flattery you know!