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The Death of Google Reader: Did Email Kill the RSS Star?

Stay N' Alive

At the same time we see other "social networks" of Google's (Youtube) hitting over a billion active users. Compared to that, Google Reader was minuscule. Many are even screaming that the death of Google Reader is the death of RSS and the beginning (or end?) I hope RSS makes a come-back.

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

Ignite Social Media

We’ve been doing nothing but social media marketing for brands since 2007. You debated whether FeedDemon or Google Reader was the best for RSS feeds ; 12. Your blog was an important part of your personal brand; 15. You remember the days even non-regulated brands had legal approve every social post ; 27.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google will soon shelve Reader and this has created a lot of panicky online noise from ardent fans. I have had a Reader account for several years now, but hadn’t really ever used it. I did, at one time, make use of an RSS reader called BlogBridge. Do you use Google Reader? Related articles.

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed for Guest Posts

Kikolani

Figuring out how to do this with particular systems might pose a specific challenge, especially if those networks only allow you to import one RSS feed. Creating a Custom RSS Feed. The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. > <rss version="2.0".

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

Harp Interactive

This blog post is the second in the 2 part series on brand monitoring. In case you missed the first blog post, here is the link: Monitor Your Brand Online. In order to make things easy you should fiirst create a place that will aggregate all your monitoring results like an RSS reader. Monitoring Tools For: Blogs.

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

I teach classes on social media monitoring – computer classes – and the students set up iGoogle to find and monitor Media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, images, key influencers, keywords, CEO and brand mentions and so on. It can’t be a purely RSS play as we need gadgets/widgets for API only based services. Really grumpy

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5 Sure Fire Social Media Tactics To Jump Start Your Job Search

Jason Yormark

A few years ago when I got laid off from Microsoft, I got a quick lesson in how important it was to invest time in your personal brand regardless of your job situation. Take the time to brand yourself appropriately, and get into a rhythm of using Twitter to share relevant content, engage with like minded users, and network for opportunities.