We do a lot of work with social media. Everything we do we try to make it as efficient as we can, keeping it simple but effective. We think “innovation” is often seeing the complex as simply as possible. In the spirit of gathering up our most used tools, this post should help you with some of our favorite tools. One of the best ways to form an opinion is simply to experience it for yourself, but we love this functionality. If you use Gmail, and we think you should, then this integration of Twitter and Facebook will rock your world.
These directions should work for you if you are interested in trying it out. If you do try it out, feel free to drop a comment below and let us all hear what you think–has it helped you? Is Google going the right direction providing all these integrated choices? We’d love to hear your opinions.
1. Activate “Add any gadget by URL” in Gmail Labs — Login into your gmail. Go to the “Settings” menu at the top right. Click on the “Labs” menu choice within Settings. You will find it near the bottom of the list.
2. Now go to Settings –> Gadgets. Here you’ll find a place to add Gadget URLs.
3. Add the TwitterGadget App. Any iGoogle gadget will do actually, but I like TwitterGadget, a fully-functional Twitter service for iGoogle and Gmail. This lets tweet from the sidebar or open up your Twitter with all of your tabs intact. It even supports multiple accounts (cool!)
To add it, copy and paste this URL into Gmail’s Gadget settings: “https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml”
4. Add the Facebook Gadget. In the same way you added TwitterGadget, you can add Facebook to your Gmail. While Google has an official Facebook gadget, it doesn’t play nicely with Gmail, so try out the app Ari Milner uses: Facebook Gadget by iBruno. It will expand into the rest of your Gmail for easy Facebook management (just click the ‘expand’ on the Facebook widget and it will expand into your Gmail pane).
FB integrated
To add it, copy and paste this URL into Gmail’s Gadget settings: “http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml”
5. Voila! Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail are now all wrapped up into one for your convenience. Simple and doable.
6. Final Step. Add us on Twitter @BigBadCollab, @marksnewton and @benjordan. We would love to connect!
Tags: Facebook, Google, integration, social media, Twitter
