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On The Death Of Google Reader

Waxing UnLyrical

This time though, Google cut services for a tool that isn’t just “popular.” ” Google Reader is the bedrock for how many people collect information on the Internet. Before Google announced they were shutting down Reader , I hadn’t looked at my feed in months, maybe a year, or more.

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32 Signs You Might Be a Social Media Marketing O.G.

Ignite Social Media

You debated whether FeedDemon or Google Reader was the best for RSS feeds ; 12. You remember when social media was all about authenticity , then became about a perfectly curated feed, then came back around to authenticity again; 25. Facebook Business Manager may be causing your blood pressure issues; 10.

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Google Reader Alternatives: 3 Web Based RSS Readers to Manage Your Subscriptions

Kikolani

If you follow my writing, you probably know how much I love Google Reader. On July 1st, Google Reader says goodbye. The Learn More takes you to a page that tells you what you can export using their Google Takeout tool, but nothing in the way of alternatives. A Little About How I Use(d) Google Reader.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

This self-curation creates self-reinforcing echo chambers and narrows the perspectives to which we’re exposed online in a way that wasn’t present in the pre-Internet era. This self-curation creates self-reinforcing echo chambers and narrows the perspectives to which we’re exposed online in a way that wasn’t present in the pre-Internet era.

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Breaking Google Reader on the wheel of Google +?

The Way of the Web

Google has announced it will make a number of changes to Google Reader ‘in the next week’, and by the looks of it, they’re going to break a great existing product and tool which is used by a lot of professionals to be able to shoehorn some extra interaction into Google+.

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3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives)

Kikolani

Feedly also offers social engagement scoring on blog posts, but it is no where near as comprehensive as PostRank. Feedly only measures shares through their reader, Facebook, and Google +1′s. Google Reader. Google Reader only has a few more days before it is retired.

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Why Buffer, HootSuite and Post Planner are the Holy Trinity of Managing Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. My primary platform for content curation is Twitter. Frankly, I think that medium isn’t all that happy.

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