To Crosspost or not to Crosspost?

I post teasers at LJ, Dreamwidth and Goodreads, as well as links on Twitter and my Facebook fan page. It's not as much work as it sounds; Twitter takes less than a minute, Facebook takes about a minute, the Goodreads entry takes less than five minutes. I cut and paste the Goodreads entry into Dreamwidth and it auto-crossposts to LJ. All but the Dreamwidth crosspost make a difference. I go ahead and do Dreamwidth anyway because it takes no extra time.

Cool, thanks for sharing. LJ is a phenomenon I can't entirely wrap my head around, but it seems to have a crazy-big user base.

Any other experiences with crossposting?

I post teasers and site news to a separate LJ, which many (or at least some) use as an RSS feed. Since my site is entirely roll-your-own, it doesn't come with an integral RSS.

But I've been on LJ longer than I've been married.

Ha!

(i.e., since 2001).

Anyone have any experience or opinions about crossposting at fictionpress.com and writing.com?

I played around with Fictionpress.com a few years back. Updating in multiple locations is too much work for me. I ended up stopping. From the one post I dredged up, I was pretty happy with the response I got there (http://www.sahunter.net/2007/10/fictionpress-update.html). It was all fluffy feedback, but I was just starting out on the internet so any was appreciated. It looks like I took the story down from their website though. I think because I got tired of updating and didn't want to leave it up unfinished. Fictionpress.com is I believe a sibling to fanfiction.net or was originally an off shoot. It's hard to get noticed on a large site like that or promote yourself. You're just one of the masses. Have not fooled around with writing.com

I came from LJ - fanfiction, if you must know I have been quite disappointed by the community around original fic there. I have had particular (though perhaps not surprising) difficulty coaxing the audience base I established from fanfic over to my original stuff.

Given that any fandom pairing however obscure and/or weird can find an audience, the original fic communities have relatively low activity (not nonexistent, but relatively low compared to fandom). Some comms are great (slavefic is a personal favourite...!), but others I don't think you really get value for effort posting there. Nonetheless I continue to do so, because I am fond of LJ.

Just my $0.02.

From my experience, it is very tedious and requiring proper planning and execution. Not doing this has caused my problems which I have to deal once I done with my hiatus.

I've actually been able to streamline my cross-posting to a significant degree. I built RSS feeds in my Drupal site so that every time I post a History or Gulch episode, or a blog post, it automatically posts to my LJ and Goodreads. That leaves just Twitter and FB, which are no big thing, and eventually the Twitter Drupal module will start working again (I hope), which would leave only FB.

Right now I'm just stumbling along with control-c.