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Fate SRD In The Works

February 19, 2011 /

Fred Hicks and the FATE designers have a new site where they are talking about FATE and moving towards documented the FATE 3.0 SRD. Here’s the site.

http://www.faterpg.com/

Here’s an example of their efforts at crowdsourcing:

So, Evil Hat is limited in what it can do at any one time, but over the years we’ve been gifted with an incredible resource — our fans — who have, time and again, come through for us in terms of getting the word out, providing ad-hoc support of our products, acting as a distributed grass-roots customer service and sales force, and so on. Heck, the reason there’s an SRD of Spirit of the Century that has been acting as our Fate 3 SRD for the past several years is because some fans stepped up and created the document(s) for us.

We couldn’t be more pleased about this, but it’s also humbling to realize there are so many folks out there willing to jump up and help us out whenever we ask for it. It’s that realization that keeps us from making constant requests of our fans. (A good thing, too — if we pushed out too much “signal” through our fans, the general public would tire of it, and eventually our fans would too.)

All the same, we need your help today.

 

Google Buzz — Integrating Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and Buzz

February 10, 2010 /

First, follow the instructions on my prior link here:

http://swshinn.com/writing-tips/autopost-to-facebook-and-twitter/

Once you’ve done the above, you can post to WordPress blog and it will echo out to both Facebook and Twitter.

Next, manually connect Twitter to your Buzz. Here’s how:

Log in to Gmail. When you click “Buzz” and then click “Connected Sites”, you’ll see the source manager; this lets you control permission levels for each source (in other words, you can set it so that your posts via Twitter are shared with certain people as opposed to your default privacy settings). [Note: controlling this was pretty un-intuitive. You’d think you could get to this under “Settings”, but you can’t. Bad design.]

That’s it! Enjoy.

Google Buzz — Tips for the Power User

February 10, 2010 /

Is Google’s new Buzz feature a Facebook / Twitter killer? Time will tell. For the near term though, it’s probably a good idea to check it out. With Twitter-to-Buzz integration, you can easily set up Buzz to mirror your Twitter posts. In my next post I’ll show how to integrate Facebook and a WordPress Blog so you can post-once and it will echo out to Twitter, Facebook and Buzz with zero extra steps.

In the meantime, here’s some Power User Tips:

TWITTER TO BUZZ
You can manually connect Twitter to your Buzz. When you click “Buzz” and then click “Connected Sites”, you’ll see the source manager; this lets you control permission levels for each source (in other words, you can set it so that your posts via Twitter are shared with certain people as opposed to your default privacy settings). [Note: controlling this was pretty un-intuitive. You’d think you could get to this under “Settings”, but you can’t. Bad design.]

@REPLIES
When you’re entering a comment, your @reply will add people to the post and deliver it to their inbox.  For example, type in “@mary” and you’ll see a list of matches. Note that while this makes it “private”, it appears that that person can share your comment with others much as an email may be forwarded, so beware this loophole.

FILTERING
If you’re a power user already using Gmail filters, note that your regular email filters will apply to Google Buzz messages, so you can control what types of messages you see.

BUZZ DOCUMENTATION
Finding the Buzz documentation was a bit of a chore, so I included the direct link here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=27291

Automatically Post Blog Entries to Facebook and Twitter

January 23, 2010 /

I used to write a blog post, then go to TinyURL.com to get a short link, then I’d log in to Twitter to tweet about my new blog entry, then I’d go to Facebook and do the same thing. What a drag. Here’s how to automate your blog so you write once and publish to multiple place automatically — it mirrors the content out to both Twitter and Facebook with no extra work necessary!

This mini-tutorial assumes:

  1. You have a Facebook “page” set up and a Twitter account.
  2. You have a blog set up on your own domain (mine is swshinn.com) and it uses WordPress software to manage the site.
  3. You (or someone you know) knows how to FTP into your site and install WordPress plugins (it’s really not that hard — Google search to find many tutorials on this).

Step 1: Getting WordPress to automatically post to Twitter

Download and install the “YOURLS: WordPress To Twitter”  plugin:

http://planetozh.com/blog/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin/

Once installed and activated, configure these settings:

  1. Under “URL Shortener Service” pick a service. I use TinyURL.
  2. Under “Twitter Settings” enter the login and password for your Twitter account.
  3. Finally, check the box that says ”  Send a tweet with the short URL”. This means that every time you submit a blog post, this WordPress plugin will automatically make a short URL for your blog post (in my case, generating a TinyURL) and post the entry to your Twitter account.

Here’s a screenshot of my settings (click the image to enlarge it):

YOURLS WordPress To Twitter Plugin

YOURLS WordPress To Twitter Plugin

Step 2: Getting Facebook to automatically list your new blog posts

Assuming you have a Facebook “page” (I’m not sure it would work with a normal Facebook account or Facebook “group”; and most authors prefer the “page” features), here’s how you do it.

  1. Click on the link to “Edit” your page.
  2. Then on the settings page that appears, under “Notes Settings” on the right, it gives the option to “Import a blog.” Click that link, and then enter the URL for your WordPress blog’s RSS feed (by default, this is “http://yoursite.com/feed”).
  3. Click on “Start Importing.”

You’re done!

In the future, when you post to your WordPress blog, WordPress will tweet your post to your Twitter account, and Facebook will grab the entry and post it under your Facebook page notes. Note that Facebook may take a few minutes (maybe even an hour or more) to grab your blog post, so be patient. 😉

If you liked this article, add me as a “friend” on Facebook and Twitter!:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/S-W-Shinn/197734288134

http://twitter.com/swshinn

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