Getting Your FriendFeed Account Set Up
To sign up for FriendFeed, go to: www.FriendFeed.com and “Click Create an Account”.
You’ll see this page:
The first screen you'll see when you setup your FriendFeed account.
Fill in the Email address and Name boxes.
Next, choose a nickname. This could be your name or some other handle you use elsewhere. If you’re using FriendFeed to brand your name, then use your real name.
The line on the right will indicate whether or not the nickname is already chosen. You’ll then choose your personal password. Then click on Create my account.
You’ll next come to a page that looks like this:
Here you can choose to aggregate your Facebook friends with one easy step. This causes FriendFeed to “mesh” your Facebook friends into FriendFeed so you have a seamless compilation.
You can also quickly import your entire current email list from any of the popular email clients like Gmail, AOL, etc. I don’t do this. Probably because I get bombarded with these kinds of requests on a regular basis and it’s inconvenient.
You don’t have to do this part right now, so just skip it – you can add this in later. Skip this step to go to the next page.
This is a list of Popular FriendFeeders that you may choose to add to your FriendFeed.
It’s great exposure if you can become one of the people popular enough to be featured on this page. Notice good old Ed Dale smack dab in the middle?
You'll notice some big name marketers are already present on FriendFeed.com
Subscribe to your favorites.
Here again, unless you see someone you know you want to subscribe to, just hit
Next: See your FriendFeed! >>
That’s it! No profiles to fill out and blanks to fill with your personal information just to get an account.
You’re probably wondering, “Why Not?”
Well, remember that FriendFeed is taking in your feeds from your other social sites where you’re already established with a profile. FriendFeed simply brings all those feeds into one “clearinghouse” of blurbs and microblogs so friends, family, co-workers, customers, team members and – you name it – can read your feeds.
Part 2: Adding Your Social Feeds and Blogs to FriendFeed
I’ll take you through how to add your own feeds to fill out your public FriendFeed – the part that others will want to subscribe to.
To add a social network feed, on your Home page, find this button:
Add Your Feeds to FriendFeed.
When you click on it, you get this:
The screen you'll see when you add your feeds to FriendFeed.com
These are not all the services listed. If you don’t see some of your services, click on “See all 59…” (or whatever number is currently there) “…services.”
Now, you see some of my services listed on the right. Right now I have my three blogs, my Facebook account, YouTube, and Twitter. But let’s pretend I didn’t have Twitter on there yet.
I want to add my Twitter feed, so I click the Twitter icon and get:
Use this box to add Twitter to FriendFeed..
You just need to type in your Twitter user name – LauraChilds – in my case and hit “Import Twitter”. Super simple. Now you see Twitter listed in my feeds list.
Now go ahead and do that with all of your feeds.
If you have a WordPress blog for instance, you can add your blog’s RSS feed to your FriendFeed account through the RSS module.
Click the orange RSS Blog button and you get this:
Here again, it’s as simple as entering your blog’s URL and then clicking Import Blog. Your blog is now instantly added to your own FriendFeed account and all of the world can find your public media all in one easy to find place.
Now that you have your account set up and you’re starting to add some of your own feeds and favorites to your account, I’ll leave you for a day and return later with some advanced social marketing tips for FriendFeed.com!
