Have you ever wished you could let your friends and followers know when you’ve published a new post without having to traverse your several favored social networks? It usually takes me about 10 minutes to cross post quick updates to my SocNets whenever I want to let people know a new post has gone up on WRA. But what happens when a new post goes up that was scheduled? I’m not sitting at my computer ready to spread the word!

That’s where Shorten2Ping comes in.

This nifty WordPress plugin says, “Hey Ping.fm got something for you!” It uses your settings to tell Ping.fm (Michele Tune told us all about Ping.FM and why you will love it!) exactly what you’d like to say and then Ping.fm does the work of letting all your friends know. The greatest thing is it does it automatically. Now you’ve got no excuse for forgetting to let me know you’ve updated your blog.

Once you’ve got Shorten2Ping set up correctly you can save yourself those precious 10 minutes and let Shorten2Ping and Ping.fm do the hard work. Every time a post is published on your blog it’ll ping itself through your social networks automatically and you can get on with the important things, like writing MORE new posts.

Have you ever wanted to do something with your WordPress blog but don’t know how? Feel free to ask and I’ll dig up a solution for you. Do you use or prefer a different plugin to update your social networks? I’d love to explore other options too so share, shout, and keep on spreading the word.

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