I have a Facebook account, I have Twitter, Diigo, Flickr, Blogspot, Edmodo, LinkedIn, and about any other social media site you can think of. The issue questions becomes, how do I make them work together. I know there are lots of neat ways to set one up to post to the other and to use RSS to get lots more done, but that can be a bit of a pain. Yesterday I was introduced to IFTTT (If This Then That). For those of you who remember what BASIC programming was, then an IF THEN statement should be familiar to you. It is also used in the study of logic. This however is a website that allows you to do some pretty cool things all from one site.

I set one up for the school that will (hopefully) feed our Activities calendar to our twitter account, and if we had a Facebook Fan Page, then I could send it there too. For personal use, I have it send a tweet from me when I create a new blog post (this will be the first one, so I hope it works), when the ITEC fan page on Facebook has a post, it goes to my twitter, and when itec_ia tweets, I retweet it.

What is really cool about the site is the recipe book. People are sharing their IF THENs so that you do not have to recreate the wheel. I know that I am not on the bleeding edge, but I like to think that I am a little ahead of the average bear when it comes to new technologies. By the number of recipes that are already on the site, I feel like I am out of the loop on this.

I hope that some of you find this site interesting and useful. If not, then I am sorry I wasted your time. But for me, the sky is the limit as I think of new ways to use ifttt.

Until next time, Happy Days!