Combine RSS feeds using Yahoo Pipes for your Facebook Notes

Let’s start with the end in mind.

Your Ultimate Goal: Pull in all posts from your multiple RSS feeds into the Facebook Notes application.

You have a Facebook profile and/or Page. Facebook has a default application called Facebook Notes. You have several places you submit articles to or write posts on, and each one of those has its own RSS feed. Each time you post to any one of these places you would like it to be displayed in your Facebook Notes app. Why use Facebook Notes instead of adding a 3rd party Facebook RSS application that allows you to pull in multiple feeds?

It’s simple, really.

The Facebook Notes app is the only one you can tag your friends in.

To find out more about why tagging in Facebook Notes is awesome, you must check out Mari Smith’s blog post on the subject. Here’s the problem: Facebook Notes only allows you to import one RSS feed. So…what can you do? You want to have a “mashup” of all your RSS feeds into one and create a single “combination” RSS feed. Fortunately for you, there are several online tools that allow you to do this, but today I’m going to show you how to use Yahoo Pipes to accomplish this.

I’m including some YouTube videos (not my own) on how to work with Yahoo Pipes to build your combination RSS feed. Plus, I’m also including my video on how it works in the Facebook Notes application and what the final results look like. I also found a blog article listing some cool ways to use Yahoo Pipes, so if you’re interested in finding out more about it – check it out.

I have to tell you though, using Yahoo Pipes takes some getting used to. They do provide tutorials and I highly recommend reading them, but to get right to the point of this post, the YouTube videos I’m including are quick and easy. Perfect for what we want to know right now about how Yahoo Pipes fits into what we want to accomplish in Facebook.

YouTube Videos: You’ll notice you can accomplish the same thing by using different methods. A huge thank you to the creators of these videos!

Here’s my video included in this post:

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I hope you enjoy this tip!

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