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How to Synchronize BuddyPress and Facebook Activities and... Unless you’re giving away free beer on your website, chances are that you need the assistance of 3rd party social media to make users aware of interacting with your WordPress community. This week the WordPress community has been bursting with new ways to connect the social networking sites users use most with WordPress sites so that information and interaction can be easily shared across platforms. Welcome the Facestream plugin for all of your Facebook streaming needs on your BuddyPress site. This plugin allows you to synchronize your user’s BuddyPress activity items with their Facebook posts. It also sends out updates upon forum topic creation and topic reply. Peter Hofman developed this plugin and is also the author of the very excellent Tweetstream plugin, which has been downloaded more than 1,800 times since it was released less than a month ago. There are three simple parts to setting up this plugin. Get an API key From Facebook Set the Filters (Optional but highly recommended)

TeamPage - Traction Software TeamPage calendars show collections of Tasks by Project or by Person - permission aware of course. Read TeamPage calendars in any iCal client - including Microsoft Outlook. Show profile and status information from TeamPage using TeamPage's free Outlook Social Connector. Use and install TeamPage's free Traction Instant Publisher client for Microsoft and Mac desktop use. TeamPage Instant Publisher for Windows automatically installs itself as an application plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.