Most social sites make it easy for you to find your personal feed URL (also called a feed address), while others can be more challenging.

Your feed URL lists all your activity within a social site or service. These feeds consist of images, video, recent blog posts, presentations, tweets, whatever is relevant to a particular service.

This video shows you how to find your:

• WordPress feed URL or address
• Flickr feed URL or address
• YouTube feed URL or address
• Twitter feed URL or address
• Slideshare feed URL or address
• and more

The video tutorial from the Internet Empowerment Series on YouTube also demonstrates methods for finding feed URLs on any site by using your Web browser or searching the site’s page source.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw2ePwWW-fg

This can get out of hand if you don’t keep track of it all. Our tip today is to create a visual map of all the accounts you have integrated, and how they are integrated.

Here is a presentation to help: http://www.slideshare.net/deltina/integrating-your-social-web-presence-two-sample-plans.

About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

In addition to increasing your exposure in the Social Web, adding your images and video to media communities can have other advantages. There are many open source applications that tap into the power of these sites to offer you a host of features you can add to your blog or Website, features like image and video galleries, portfolios, or sidebar widgets. With proper planning, you can even see better search engine placement for your images and video files by adding them to media communities.

The following excerpts are from A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web by Deltina Hay

Copyright 2009 by Deltina Hay. All rights reserved.

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Image Sharing Strategy

• Get an account with the image community of your choice and fill out your profile completely. Remember that this may be the only chance you get to make an impression on potential clients or readers.
• Gather the images you can upload right away. This may include:
  • Logos
  • Head shots of company principals
  • Author photos
  • Book covers
  • Event photos
• Prepare a main key term list to use as tags for every image. This may be your company name, principal name, author name, book title, home city, etc.
• For each image you want to upload prepare:
  • A list of key terms to use as tags in addition to your main key term list.
  • A short title that uses at least two key terms.
  • A description that uses several key terms.
• Use a form like the one below so you will be prepared when uploading images. (A fillable and printable version of this form is available on the resource CD [that comes with the book].)
• Pull images from your account onto your blog and/or Website
  • As a badge or widget
  • As an image gallery
• Connect with others by browsing images and commenting.

(Click on image to see a larger version.)

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Beyond strategies for image and video sharing, this chapter  includes real world examples of media communities in action, as well as ways you can use these communities to increase your search engine ranking.  The resource CD offers linkable resources and a number of fillable PDF forms called “Image Sharing Strategy,” “Prep Form For Image Communities,” “Video Sharing Strategy,” and “Prep Form For Video Communities.”

A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web by Deltina Hay

416 Pages, Indexed, Resource CD with fillable forms.

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