In an effort to troubleshoot and see how far I can go to manage my social media, I delved into a trick I used to do with IFTTT, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. A while ago, I set up some Applets on IFTTT that fired when I updated this blog page. What it was supposed to do was auto-publish the new blog post across Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn without my having to copy and paste the link on each service separately. As of March 2019, LinkedIn changed their API and I was oblivious to this, or too busy to research how to correct it. As I don't blog much (thanks Sharon for pointing THAT one out...), I haven't been bothered by it much. Today, after being excited enough to post a very extensive blog post, I saw the IFTTT fire, but it only reached Twitter and Facebook. It was then I found that LinkedIn was broken. I still have the connection in place though between Twitter and LinkedIn, so anything I post should go to both places, however, I found that now I have to add an extra step. I have just updated my Applet on IFTTT and this post will test whether adding the hashtag will work to cascade the post across all three again.
Update: Well, it didn't work. LinkedIn is being very obstinate about automatic posting. In addition, they removed the ability to link your account with Blogger (at least for non-Premium accounts), therefore, my workaround is to add my Blog as a publication under my LinkedIn profile and hope people scroll down that far to see it.
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