You can automatically 'feed' Twitter with updates from blogs, photo or video sites) or any other system that provides updates through web feeds. But Twitter itself can't do this, so you will need a system that does this for you.

I picked four free tools and tested them for you.

I've made some slides to go with the Feeding Your Social Network In 4 Steps post I've made last week. If you have any feedback, please post in the comments!

Right. How am I going to explain this? When I woke up this morning, I found something on Twitter about a new system called TweetBoard. I heard something about Alpha invites, allowing me to test their new service free of charge. Alpha is a geek word for experimental software. First, there’s only an idea. Then comes the Alpha release, Beta release, then the Release Candidate (RC) and finally the Ready to Manufacture (RTM). TweetBoard is still Alpha software… Good to know!

Chances are that not everyone on LinkedIn is following you on Twitter. So what if you want to keep your LinkedIn contacts up-to-date with your status? This is where this Twitter 2 LinkedIn tutorial comes in.In the slideshare presentation I will show you can automatically sync your Twitter messages with your LinkedIn profile status. You can also install filters to select which messages should or should not be posted on LinkedIn.

There are lots of websites (including dae’s weblog) that allow you to log in using your Facebook account. It’s strange you get a pop up window that hardly shows you the URL, which means you don’t know if you’re really submitting your credentials to Facebook, unless you check it first. And since the Facebook window doesn’t use an SSL-certificate, your name and password are sent over the network in plain text anyway. Wouldn’t it be better if this window featured an SSL certificate and a bigger URL bar, that shows exactly where your name and password are going?

So you followed our Guide on How To Set Up Twitter, now you want to post your thoughts and start interacting!

Your Tweets

Start getting some tweets into the system now. On the Twitter home page, it asks What You Are Doing. Quite frankly many people don't care until you have built a relationship with them as a result of following.

Hubspot does a great job analyzing the twitter users. Once in a while, they publish the data they gather from their twitter.grader.com analytics tool. This month they launched their latest version of the 'State of the Twittersphere' and it has some interesting statistics.

Joomladays.nl is the main website of the Joomladays event in The Netherlands. It's a two day conference, all about the open source CMS called 'Joomla^TM'. Around 270 people attended to the event.

This is a great example of how connecting online social networks can help boosting a website. At the end of March, joomladays.nl was launched. At that time, PageRank (or PR) was 0. Now, less then 3 months later, the site has a PageRank of 6!

Setting up on Twitter to have your own account is easy, but there are a few things that you should be aware of when organizing your account. This can apply even if you already have an existing account too, so consider these tips and it can improve your entire Twitter experience.The first thing to do if you don't have an account is go to twitter.com which is the home page of Twitter. You will be asked to either login or register. If you don't have an account, then of course you will need to register. So let's go through the registration process and explain it all here.

Web feeds are a very important method of distributing data through your online network. Most websites or web services already provide feeds with the content you publish.Basically, feeds strip your stories (e.g. news items, blog posts) from any "strange" code or design elements and generate standardized output. Look at it as a very basic, simple version of your website, without any design (see for example our RSS feed). That way, you can reuse your content on other websites or services.

When looking for a good network to post your data (may it be text, video, images etc) and to get it out in the social networks, it's important to have some mass. If you want lots of people to notice and share your content, there must be lots and lots of people in the first place!