This is the fifth part of The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks series. If you have not read the other parts of this series you can find them here:

The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 1
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 2 [YouTube]
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 3 [Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Delicious]
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 4 [Flickr, GDZILLA]

Google Reader "send to"

I know that I was going to take a break from this series, I mean a longer break, but I’ve recently come across a new service that has changed my workflow for sharing links on social networking sites. Normally, when I see a website that I want to bookmark on Delicious, I use Delicious’s bookmarklet (via Quix). I tag and save the bookmark on Delicious and I can also send it to Twitter. Like I discussed in part 3 of this series.

Generally this works fine, however, there are times that I see a story in my Google Reader news feeds that I want to save for later on Delicious plus send out to Twitter or Facebook. Previously, I would click the “send to” link at the bottom of the post. I would then be taken out of Google Reader and sent to a Delicious page to add tags and then also send it out to Twitter. I would then have to go back to Google Reader to continue reading my news feeds. This is a bit of a disruptive process. Again, I have already described how I do all of this in part 3 of this series. On the iPhone it is even more tedious. I have to tap the link and go to the post on the originating website. I then use the Delicious bookmarklet. Finally, I need to go back to Google Reader again. A long and tedious process.

Packrati.us

Packrati.us

Along came my saviour in the form of a great new service, Packrati.us. It works like this, when users add a hastag to their Tweet (I use #db) then packrati.us will save that link as a bookmark and add the Tweet as a description on Delicious. Users can skip the hashtag and have packrati.us save every link from every Tweet. I post a lot of stuff to Twitter that is relevant to the moment and that I will never need to go back to, I opted for the hashtag method.

Now, my workflow is considerably smoother. If I am reading my news feed from within Google Reader all I have to do is share the item with a note and add #db at the end of that note, or as the note to save to Delicious. It is a real time saver. Additionally, if you had further hashtags to your Tweet then those will also be added as tags on Delicious. The downside to this is that if you’re a heavy tagger on Delicious then you only have 140 characters in your Tweet which doesn’t leave much room for many tags.

Google Reader "share with note"

At an earlier point in time, I also wrote about the Facebook application called Selective Tweets. So now, when I use all of these services together, I can post a news item from within Google Reader out to Twitter (using Reader2Twitter), Facebook (via #fb hashtag) and save it to Delicious (via #db hastag). One process with multiple results.

I have found packrati.us to be a real time saver when I am trying to go through all of my feeds. Anything that streamlines any workflow in my life puts a smile on my face. Have you tried Packrati.us? Any tricks or tips that you want to share? Add them to comments below.

Other parts in this series:
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 1
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 2 [YouTube]
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 3 [Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Delicious]
The Missing (Social) Link: Linking Your Social Networks – Part 4 [Flickr, GDZILLA]

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