Alltop – Alltop is a directory that showcases the RSS feeds of hundreds of blogs.  Headlines are bloody important. The best blog authors nail headline/titles. Magazines with millions of subscribers fill every issue with juicy headlines.  Top Gun copywriters spend hours brainstorming hundreds of headlines BEFORE they write. My buddha at Copyblogger says… “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. Headlines are that important. But Where Do You Get Headline Ideas? quick search on Google proves the point. MORE >>

Marshall Kirkpatrick talked about aggregation and filtering several years ago in How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project where he had cobbled together a solution using Google Blog Search,  dapper, Feed Digest, PostRank, Roller, and others.  You likely are already using an RSS Reader to subscribe to various sources.  IceRocket – real-time search against blogs, twitter, myspace, news, images, Twitter List to RSS – allows you to create an RSS feed from a list of twitter users. RSS Mesh. Alltop – Limited blog aggregation. Aggregation. video? MORE >>

Use  StumbleUpon  and  AllTop  to increase your readership. Subscribe to  SmartBrief  newsletters, RSS feeds, and  Google alerts  in order to find ideas for new content. Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and email. I’m taking a few days of vacation time (before Patti Knight kills me) so we went through the 2010 most popular blog posts and updated a couple to run here again. Enjoy! It’s interesting to go back and look at both what I was reading two years ago and where I was getting blogging ideas. 50 Tips to Make Your Company’s Blog Rock. Ask questions. MORE >>

Alltop  and Free Digital Photos   are just a couple of useful resources. You’ll find that FlashIssue eliminates the need for creating complicated templates – just drop and drag your content into our software, or better yet, automatically pull it in from the RSS feed of your blog or other online sources. How do you get the most out of your email marketing campaigns? Get the attention of your audience. This means giving them something of value at every turn. Consider your practices and you realize this is true. Rules for Better Email Marketing. Simple is always better. MORE >>

heard this on Sunday and so just for fun I filtered every one of the newsletters and rss feeds that I never even bother to scan into a mailbox. RSS Feeds. Like Guy Kawasaki Tweets and does for AllTop. will also use it to send content out to my network over a period of time so when I read my RSS feeds every day I don’t just dump a dozen feeds on my network but spread it out over the day. The number one question I get about social media is: “How can I do all this social media stuff and still get my work done?&#. Great question isn’t it? Email. Alerts. MORE >>