I use the Facebook feature that lets you bring your blog posts (or any RSS feed for that matter) into Facebook as Notes.  I’ll not go into how to do that – you can go to Here and see how it’s done… I also use Drupal to run my website.

What I wanted to do was only have a sub-set of my posts go to Facebook – now, this is probably common knowledge – but I just figured it out tonight and thought that if nothing else – I’d write it down so when I forget it later, I can look it up.

Originally I was just using the Syndicate link on the blogs page to get the RSS feed and off I go – but that, of course, gets everything and some of my posts are technical and frankly leave a lot of my friends scratching their heads and wondering what I’m talking about… But I also post stuff that I would like for everyone to see – and I’m probably the only person that actually visits my blog. :)

Back on task - in my case, I just want posts that have been tagged with a special “toFacebook” tag to be delivered as notes to the Facebook Notes app.

The solution is this:

First, click the tag you want to filter by on any of the blog posts that has that tag assigned. Your URL should change to something like http:// yoursite.net/taxonomy/term/12

Next, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you should see a little orange RSS icon there.  Click on it and your URL should now be something like http:// yoursite.net/taxonomy/term/12/0/feed

This URL will be the blog RSS feed, filtered to only contain your selected tag… easy as that… copy this URL and you can now update Facebook.

The hardest part for me was finding how to change the stupid URL on the Facebook Notes application… go figure… a whole ‘nother blog post, I think.

I’ve decided to pull all my content and domains into one place and get it all running on Drupal – This was a pretty big step for me, considering my self-boxing in a mostly pure Microsoft stack of technologies for the last 6 years or so.