Let's say you publish a new article on your blog. How do you promote it? Automatically via different web services (e.g. Feedburner) or manually ("copy-paste" to different social networks etc.)? I'm especially interested about the automated process.
Let's continue with the Feedburner example. It automates the promotion process by:
- auto-tweeting your new post via your Twitter account (post-title http://goo.gl/fb/abcd)
- sending an e-mail digest to your blog's e-mail subscribers (once a day I think, if there are updated content?)
This is a good start, but have any of you automated this process even further? Do you use a service like Ping.fm and a wordpress plugin like CR Post2Pingfm (or similar) to update all your selected social network status messages with your new content update info?
What are the best practises that you've found? Do you find it rude to do this kind of automation or is it already a "must" for everyone who wants to drive traffic and avoid the burden of manually promoting content in a number of different places?
