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In the last few weeks I have really gotten more into the social networking sites but maybe not for the reasons most people do. They are really good marketing tools, and very easy to keep updated if you know how to automate them. Plus they give people anther way to find your web address, hours, location, etc. Once I got thing figured out it only took about a half-hour to an hour of setup time per business page.

Both of the business listed below are also setup to require no manual intervention using the notes/RSS import feature of Facebook. It works really well and basically takes care of keeping your Facebook page up-to-date.

Fro's Pub N Grub:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wilton-IA/Fros-Pub-n-Grub/65772046158

Side note: I have uploaded one photo from each band that has played recently but even that isn't really needed.

Muscatine Journal:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Muscatine-Journal/55294244167

All of the tools needed to import the RSS feeds into your Facebook pages are built into Facebook, no need for any third party applications. If you want to do this all you need to do is edit the note admin options, from there select import settings (or something similar). Once you gotten there you will be able to import an RSS feed directly into your notes, automatically with minimal setup effort.

I do use Facebook for my personal use as well but really I don't use it more the to update my status from my phone and even that's limited.

As for Twitter ( http://twitter.com/beauhuber ) I will be doing much the same thing that I do for the business. Using RSS to import my facebook status into Twitter using twitterfeed.com. Keeping it simple and hassle free, just the way I like it.

I've used MySpace a little but once again not much. I have links to my website and photo gallery so people can easily find them but I prefer to have a little more control over my data thus is why I post most everything here. From that I try and use as much RSS as possible to get the information out to people and hopefully bring people back to my website.

Now that I have rambled on enough, I'll wrap with my final thoughts. Social networking sites do serve a purpose as I have found in the last few week. But don't abandon what you already have instead use the tools you should already have and make your life easier at the same time. If you have a business and a website set your business up on these sites you can pass up free, relative easy to use marketing tool.