Since its inception, The Student Affairs Blog has rapidly grown a dedicated community. Every day more Student Affairs professionals find their way here. Sometimes they find us from a random Google search, but most of the time it’s because a current community member (cough cough…you) told them about the site. So, to help you spread the word even further, try out these 8 tips and let’s see how many more of our peers we can reach.
1) Import the Blog’s RSS Into Your Facebook Account
A lot of traffic comes from people who share various posts with their Facebook friends. If you’d like to automate sharing via Facebook, here’s how to take this blog’s RSS feed and make it automatically import into Facebook as a Note. If you’re unfamiliar with RSS, check out this video.
NOTE: Facebook only lets you import one RSS feed at a time. So, if you are already importing an RSS feed into Facebook, then you have to use a tool called FeedRise to merge two RSS feeds together into one. This way both RSS feeds will be imported into Facebook. If you have three or more RSS feeds, Feedrise will merge as many as you’d like. But beware that Facebook doesn’t like anyone posting too much stuff. Be active, just not too active 
2) Import the Blog’s RSS Into Your Twitter
For our Tweople on Twitter, you can also automate blog post sharing via Twitter with a tool called Twitterfeed. It’s simple, fun and FREE!
3) Link Your Twitter and Facebook Statuses Together
Instead of remembering to update both your Facebook and your Twitter status with new blog posts, use the Twitter App on Facebook to automatically update your Facebook status every time you update your Twitter status.
NOTE: The Twitter App will only import Tweets that don’t start with an @reply. This way you can still carry on conversations in Twitter without overloading your Facebook friends with too many updates.
4) Subscribe To The Blog via RSS or Email
Have new posts sent to you instead of you having to check the website everyday (not that we don’t love you). Think of it like a free magazine subscription. You can either have your subscription sent to you via email or sent to you via RSS.
5) Add the SA Blog to Your Blog Roll
Have a blog? Add us to your blog roll. While you’re at it, give your blog some exposure love and add it to The SA Directory.
6) Email the Blog Link to Your Fellow SA Professionals
Word of mouth is the best form of advertising. You’ve heard it before and it’s true. Whether they’re in your office, your department or at another school, share the blog link ( www.thesabloggers.org ) with them.
Or, if they have a question related to Student Affairs, share The SA Forum link ( forum.thesabloggers.org ) with them.
7) Share the Blog at Conferences
According to one of our recent polls, 67% of you go to 1-2 conferences per year. A few people said they go to 7 conferences per year, but that’s another story! While at the conference, remember the blog URL ( www.thesabloggers.org ) and pass it on to new people you meet.
It can even make for a great ice breaker… “Hey didn’t I see you comment on The Student Affairs Collaborative Blog.”
NOTE: If you can, write down the URL for them as very few people tend to take action based on just memory.
Bookmark or Homepage The Blog
We know Yahoo, CNN, and Google are near and dear to your Homepage heart, but if you feel like changing it up, consider The Student Affairs Blog as your new Homepage! Ok, we’ll also be happy with you just bookmarking us
There you go. With these 8 tips, we’ll be able to reach out to even more Student Affairs Professionals and, collectively, we can all support each other.
