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Am I talking to myself over here? My Feedburner saga

Janet Fouts

I migrated my clients from Feedburner some time ago because the service was getting a little sketchy. So we moved some client sites to Feedblitz , others decided to use WordPress’s free built in RSS feed tool. I had a little over 10,000 subscribers and yesterday Feedburner was reporting that at a big fat 0.

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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. xml version="1.0"

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RSS is Not Dead. The Concept of "Subscribing" Is.

Stay N' Alive

There are a lot of blogs out there claiming, "RSS is dead." "RSS RSS isn't dead." The higher points are what this blog looks like when FriendFeed subscribers come into play (FriendFeed submits to Feedburner that all your followers there count as subscribers on your blog(s)). Is RSS dead? Don't just say "RSS is dead".

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10 Ways to Position Your Blog Above Copycats

Kikolani

Craft your RSS feed content to avoid making it easy for content thieves. Michael Martinez published this post about how scraper blogs exploit RSS feeds like Feedburner by sending out links to blogs on a buy list. However, I do agree with his suggestion to post just a paragraph and not the entire article in your RSS feeds.

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

Buzz Marketing for Technology

5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0 1-Join a professional social network. technology) and EduBlogger World (for education bloggers) and I launched a social network called iTeach/iLearn (enhancing instruction with tech across the content areas). Subscribe via RSS Reader. at 6:23 AM.

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

It used to be this would return a list of scholarly papers, some nasty pictures of you at a bachelor party, a random smattering of form posts about cupcakes or software and possibly your connections on some social networks. These days however, it can mean a whole lot more. Looking for a job in marketing?

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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

Individuals can no longer have a basic sharing and following network within Google Reader. But worse is the claim that many users in more repressive countries were using Google Reader as social networks were blocked, and had connections of several thousand in many cases. That’s entirely lost now.

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