Know-How Exchange : Social Media

Thank you both, Karen and Juliet.

Unfortunately, this is not what we're after. I suppose I was not as clear as I should have been.

What we're after is something that works in a browser, and will allow sharing as we find any type of content or URl that we'd like to share on our page.

The "Share on Facebook" bookmark that FB makes available to us does this with posts to your profile. We want the same solution to post to our Fan Page instead.

This is different from the "Add to Facebook" buttons that can be place don a page, or the platform-specific solutions which allow the content owner to send posts to a FB Page.

The solutions you reference above do indeed achieve the same type of results we'd like, but they are for specific types of content or platforms. They fall into the 3rd party solutions that I referred to in the original question.

Still looking!

Hi Craig,

Have you looked at posterous.com? You can set up an account with auto-post to several different social media sites. You can register your facebook page and then when you want to post anything including a photos or a url just to your Facebook page you send an email to facebook@posterous.com and it will automatically post.

Thanks, Kim-

Yes, I have looked at this as well as other 3rd party solutions. They accomplish the end result I'm after, but not the method.

I just want to be able to click a bookmark in my browser so I can quickly add content during regular workflow.

Some more poking around in the Facebook developer section appears to indicate it is possible with a bit of programing. This is the closest I've come to a solution so far.
https://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?pid=211620

There are two related threads discussing the same approach, but this is over my head. I'm not concerned with posted as a Page to my Page as one of these is, but they do address the difficulty of posting to the Page as as Admin.

what you could do to make this easier for yourself - is once you have your page made on facebook - just have a redirect on the website back to that page for people to become a fan of it has while - the same can go for twitter... I hope this helps.. I have one for my company and one on linkedin - it has helped my business grow allot.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure I follow you, though.

We have the FB Fan Page and have been slowly attracting fans thru a button on our website, blog and newsletter.

What I'm looking for is a method to simplify my own posts to the Fan Page, so that I do not have to interrupt my workflow when I come across something of interest that I'd like to share.

I'm not sure how a redirect button would accomplish this. . .

We may be making progress!
For anyone following this and looking for a path towards the solution, I believe this may hold promise
https://www.iopus.com/index.htm

There is a free plug-in available for FireFox and IE. I've downloaded the FF plug-in and easily created a bookmark which logs into our FB Page, then positions the cursor in the status update field, waiting for input.

We now have a simple 3 step process:
1. In our browser, click on the URL we want to share and copy it.
2. Click on the iMacros Bookmark we created, which now lives on our bookmark bar.
3. Paste the copied URL into the status bar.
Finished!

Almost as simple as the one step process FB provides for posting to personal profiles. There is probably a way to write a macro to copy and paste the URL, but it would take us more time to figure that out than it would save.

This does what we need- hope others find it useful!