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October 2012 - Presentation at the Social Reporting
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Personalized home pages
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program
October 2012
What’s all about
Using RSS feeds to set up a personal home page
– to ‘read’ the web in a different way– to save time when looking for new content
It’s the first thing I check in the morning – also before my mailbox!
Allows me keep on top of the news and the information I need to know for my work and my interests
RSS what?!
Really Simple Syndication A publishing format
that lets you to subscribe to and receive latest updates from your favourite blogs and sites all from within a single newsreader program
RSS – A better definition…
Ready for some stories!
Key functions it supports
Managing your information flow, to keep track of latest updates from your favourites sources
Working more efficiently by subscribing to feeds and see what’s new from multiple sources, in one single interface
Monitoring what the media is saying about your project/programme/organization
Example: Monitoring the media
You can subscribe to keywords searched in Google News
New stories will come up in Google Reader
How to use it
Create an account – Google Reader or Netvibes
• Google reader as personal home page• Netvibes good to create public home pages
Subscribe to feeds– Two clicks; by url
Organize your content– Using tags and folders; in tabs
Three clicks subscription
‘Polite’ feeds…
See also http://euforicservices.com
…Clean list in your Reader
When feeds are not polite…
Copy feed URL…
Copy feed url
Add feed url in your reader
Creating public pages - Netvibes
Add content by url
Using Feedly on top of Your Google Reader
Why Feedly?
Giving Google Reader a nicer interface– Magazine style
Importing Twitter and Facebook content
Leveraging on 'social engagement', to see on your front page the most popular items from your sources
Great mobile Apps – looking even better than the desktop version!
Flipboard – Social magazine for mobiles and tablets
Hands on exercise
Go to http://www.google.com/ig– Log in with your own username and
password;
Or
Create an account at http://netvibes.com
Find 3/5 sites or blogs that you use daily – If RSS is available, subscribe to it
Add one or two gadgets
Personalized home pages
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program
October 2012