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Sifting for Ideas: Building Your RSS Feed Reader Toolkit

Discover the power of RSS feeds for finding story ideas. Learn how to use popular feed reader tools like Netvibes, Feedly, and Digg Reader effectively. Maximize your content curation with these tips!

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Sifting for Ideas: Building Your RSS Feed Reader Toolkit

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  1. Building and Using an RSS Feed Reader to Find Story Ideas Presented By: Joe Beckman, CMC Cochair

  2. Drinking Through a Fire Hose

  3. Really Simple Syndication • “RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails.” —About.com • “RSS feeds are a way to keep tabs on news sites, blogs or anyone else publishing in the abbreviated notification-oriented format, eliminating the need to revisit websites throughout the day and manually scan for new content.”  —Time Magazine Tech • What’s all this stuff on my computer screen? Where did the pictures go? —Norma Savio

  4. Sifting and Communicating Ideas • Netvibes – Popular for iGoogle fans. www.netvibes.com • Feedly – Works like Google Reader; the views are customizable and it syncs with various apps. www.feedly.com • NewsBlur – Looks and feels like a desktop reader; it’s free up to 64 sites. www.newsblur.com • The Old Reader – Has great sharing features. www.theoldreader.com

  5. Sifting and Communicating Ideas • Digg Reader – New feed reader from social news site Digg. www.digg.com/login • Pulse – Is image-driven and visual. www.pulse.me • Tiny Tiny RSS – Software that allows you to build your own RSS Reader. www.tt-rss.org • Skimr– Allows you to easily skim headlines. www.skimr.co • Curata– Filters your content. www.curata.com

  6. Sifting is the Important Part

  7. Another View

  8. How to Avoid Going to the Well Too Often

  9. Questions?

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