Great tips here that I have used before but you have put them into great perspective. I think following 500 blogs is a bit much but hey what ever floats the boat. Thanks
Davd
· 1 year ago
Great post - if I could get everything I consumer converted into an RSS feed for my Google reader, i would.
surfnturf
· 1 year ago
Excellent post - useful and insightful - no wonder you have so many readers.
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Zach
· 1 year ago
Forrester's John Cass linked to this list of F500 biz blogs over the weekend (http://pr.typepad.com/pr_communications/fortune...) - it's served me well when looking for good corporate social media examples.
I the key is to be balanced and selective. After some time you will realize that most sites and blogs produce a lot of filler content and I know that most of us simply don't have time (or don't care) about reading things about someone's personal life in business blog. After some time I simply unsubscribe from those feeds and follow ones that provide value.
nudgeme
· 1 year ago
For those that don't know, if you click the list only tab on Google reader you can scan all headlines for your chosen feeds in an eighth of the time, and then just click expand view on the ones of interest. This was a great tip I picked up on this year's Thirty Day Challenge and it's saved me shed loads of time. Thanks for this post, you've given me some further ideas on saving time, much appreciated.
andy
· 1 year ago
You miss a key point which is to use Google Readers star feature. Star any blog posting that meets certain criteria and use the built in statistics to periodically revisit your priority based on those resources that are yielding higher value content.
Yasser
· 1 year ago
Thank you, I try to keep track of websites by "memory" and never seems to work that great lol
dave
· 1 year ago
There is another rss reader at www.irintech.com which lets you customize your rss feeds
michael
· 1 year ago
Use Readmine and save yourself a lot of time.
Jeff Majka
· 1 year ago
A very good simple primer on Google Reader. Well done.
Launching Today
· 1 year ago
Great Post. I also use a 'daily' folder in Google Reader for my main feeds that I read every day, constantly promoting/demoting feeds.
Digital Man
· 1 year ago
Nice post. I will try your step for my controlled website.
rachel
· 1 year ago
Great tips
Martin
· 9 months ago
useful post ;)
Steve
· 9 months ago
Thanks for the suggestions. Makes a lot of sense.
everythingability
· 8 months ago
I created a tool that takes lots of search phrases and builds a whole heap of search subscriptions (Google Blog Search, Technorati, Twitter, etc) and gives you an OPML file that you can import straight into Google Reader (or whatever RSS reader you like)...
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Here is one.
http://startupping.com/html/blogs.php
http://www.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi
http://everythingability.com/make_opml_form/
www.contentunltd.com