Category Archives: RSS

Bottlenose Is a Game Changer for Social Media Consumption

Is reading your social feeds starting to feel like a full-time job without benefits? Bottlenose is launching a new service on Tuesday that aims to extinguish this common gripe — and it comes closer than any social media dashboard we’ve seen.

Bottlenose fights social media overload with flexible, granular feed customization options.

You can, for instance, follow just slices of Twitter and Facebook feeds, getting someone’s tech news while skipping their Foodspotting posts. It’s also easy to sort by author influence, trending in your network, your interests (it learns these based on your activity) and pretty much any other criteria. You can set up as many feeds as you want.

Any of these feeds can be viewed as a visual node map for quick browsing and have automatic actions such as “reply” or “send alert” attached to it. For instance, you could set up a rule that “for messages by people I have mentioned more than five times, show a desktop notification.”

via Bottlenose Is a Game Changer for Social Media Consumption.

Sharing Content to Show Thought Leadership

Creating, finding and sharing compelling content can prove to consumers that a company knows its territory, is a thought leader in its industry and wants to help customers keep up-to-date on important developments. Marketers are placing an ever-greater emphasis on content marketing’s ability to add value for targets and prospects.According to February 2011 research from content curation firm HiveFire, nearly half of US marketing professionals surveyed are now curating content as part of their strategy, and another 42% are familiar with the practice but not participating. Even among that group, 85% had done at least some content curation, for example by sending an article or other content to a prospect, but were not aware of it.The main objectives of content curation, according to the survey, were establishing thought leadership and improving brand buzz.Objectives of Content Curation According to US Marketers, Feb 2011 % of respondents

via Article – eMarketer.

How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload

You might already be familiar with Yahoo Pipes (a fabulous and completely underused tool). You might also be familiar with PostRank. But I never actually thought about combining the two services … clever.

At SXSW there was this presentation combining Yahoo Pipes and Postrank for filtering super power. Enjoy.

http://www.slideshare.net/geekygirldawn/sxsw-hacking-rss-filtering-processing-obscene-amounts-of-information

http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7396

While there are some simple ways to make better use of your RSS reader to manage information overload, the real magic is in filtering. My favorite filtering tool is Yahoo Pipes, which lets me filter an RSS feed using various criteria: URL, author, date, content and more. Some examples of filtered feeds in my reader right now include industry analyst blogs filtered to only find posts about online community; searches across social websites where my projects are mentioned; and my some blogs filtered for just the best posts using PostRank.

via How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload: Online Collaboration «.

How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload


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You might already be familiar with Yahoo Pipes (a fabulous and completely underused tool). You might also be familiar with PostRank. But I never actually thought about combining the two services … clever.

At SXSW there was this presentation combining Yahoo Pipes and Postrank for filtering super power. Enjoy.

http://www.slideshare.net/geekygirldawn/sxsw-hacking-rss-filtering-processing-obscene-amounts-of-information

http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7396

While there are some simple ways to make better use of your RSS reader to manage information overload, the real magic is in filtering. My favorite filtering tool is Yahoo Pipes, which lets me filter an RSS feed using various criteria: URL, author, date, content and more. Some examples of filtered feeds in my reader right now include industry analyst blogs filtered to only find posts about online community; searches across social websites where my projects are mentioned; and my some blogs filtered for just the best posts using PostRank.

via How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload: Online Collaboration «.

[RSS tricks] Convert Any Partial RSS Feed to a Full Feed

RSS is just awesome. Except when it’s truncated. Sometimes web publishers provide excerpt-only versions of their RSS feeds rather than offering the full text via RSS—requiring readers to visit the site for the full story. Webapp WizardRSS converts any partial RSS feeds to a full feed. Handy to use it with a truncated feed before imported it on your favorite reader

via WizardRSS Converts Any Partial RSS Feed to a Full Feed.

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