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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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Are You Listening?

Small Business Mavericks

Here are a few I recommend: Google Alerts. Google Reader. TweetDeck or HootSuite. Google Alerts help you do that by honing in on certain keywords that are important to you. Google will notify you when those keywords are mentioned online – in a blog post, on a website, in social media, or wherever.

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Social Media Tools, Apps, Resources and Plugins

Harp Interactive

Twhirl: Twhirl, like HootSuite and Tweetdeck is a social software desktop client and is useful for managing multiple twitter accounts. Google Reader. Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Some of twhirl’s features: runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX.

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Tools for Monitoring Online Conversations: Part 2 of Monitor Your Brand Online

Harp Interactive

In order to make things easy you should fiirst create a place that will aggregate all your monitoring results like an RSS reader. Here are some RSS aggregation services : Google Reader , Bloglines , Fastladder. Monitoring Tools For: Blogs. BlogPulse Conversation Tracker. Blogpulse Trends. Ubervu (beta). Web Page Changes.

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What’s your Social Media diet?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I can say that life was a lot more chaotic before I found Google Reader (hat tip to Robert Scoble who turned me on to Google Reader). A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader).

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My social media system

Josh S Peters

I use Google Chrome for somethings but you can’t beat FireFox’s massive line up of plug-ins. TweetDeck – The multiple columns of TweetDeck make it so easy to sort and follow people that without it Twitter gets difficult to manage at times. I open 2 FireFox windows, TweetDeck , and Foobar.

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Getting Overwhelmed? Get Organized!

Kikolani

Once you have created a few lists (or found good ones to follow on sites like Listorious , you can login to Twitter and go straight to your lists, or setup your TweetDeck , HootSuite , or other Twitter applications to show you the people you are following on those lists. Facebook Friends List.