Re: making rss from fb page?

Although FB uses the term "feed" for the postings that appear in your account, it's not an RSS feed at all. And FB doesn't want you to "take that feed elsewhere", they want you to bring your friends to your feed on FB ... and they hope your encouragement to them will drive non-members of FB to get sign up ... viral growth and all that. 

Here's a better way. Post you item on an RSS feed separate from FB, then post your items from that feed to FB by 'sharing' it to your account. Each time you post a new item on your feed, "share" it on FB and you will get ongoing attention. 

If you use Enfeedia.com to publish your RSS feed, each item will include a facebook "share" button (as well as a LinkedIn "share" button and a StumbleUpon "recommendation" button). Simply click that FB share button and you can easily post the item to your FB account. You are also given an opportunity to post a comment about the item, so, for example, besides your FB friends seeing the item you are sharing, they will also see your comment. For example, "Here's some news I just posted on my website, check the details at http://......"

With this strategy, you can write your item once (your own RSS feed) then share it all over the place without having to rewrite it. :-)

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On Oct 29, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Virginia/Yahoo wrote:

> Hi, usually a rss feed ends in .xml & the file is named after your site (mine is http://www.bad-wolf.info/virginia'schristopherecclestonwebsitefeed.xml) you can't just post the url of your site as a feed, you'd either require FB's own feed for your site (if they do feeds) or create one manually or use an online feed creator.
> 
> Virginia.
> 
> From: J.D.W 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:49 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: [rss-public] making rss from fb page?
> 
> Hi-I am not a programmer but I am trying to make an rss feed from my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/people/Rescue-Volunteer/100000717094455 that I can post to my animal sanctuary blog page: www.firststop-laststop.com/myblog 
> 
> When I tried to just post the URL of my fb page as an rss, an error message appeared on my URL/blogpage.
> 
> Any tipe/pointers/is this possible?
> 
> Much thanks!
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