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Make your own Vanity or Ego feed

Make your own Vanity or Ego feed. Or how to really. stalk yourself. What is an Ego or Vanity feed?. A Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed from sources around the web with a certain keyword or words.

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Make your own Vanity or Ego feed

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  1. Make your own Vanity or Ego feed Or how to really stalk yourself

  2. What is an Ego or Vanity feed? A Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed from sources around the web with a certain keyword or words. According to AllExperts – “a certain kind of web feed created by a search engine -- one showing all search results that match the subscriber's name, blog name, product name, etc. A feed of search results for links to the subscriber's URL would also be considered a vanity feed.”

  3. What is it good for? Engage in Conversation Build Relationships Track Success of output (posts, twitter etc) Correcting Errors and Damage Control Generally see what people are saying about us

  4. Ok, backup what is RSS RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format

  5. Is it easy? As with all things it can be as easy or as hard as you want You need an RSS reader like NetVibes or GoogleReader Inputs and outputs are customisable

  6. The 5 minute ego feed Step 1 Go to monitorThis and set up your keyword search

  7. The 5 minute ego feed Step 2 Go to monitorThis and set up your keyword search metacafe mybloglog opensearch plazoo technorati topix twitter wikio blogs wikio news youtube zimbio blogdigger blogmarks delicious findarticles google blogs google news google picasaweb identica magnolia

  8. The 5 minute ego feed Step 3 Open results as an OPML file

  9. The 5 minute ego feed Step 5 Copy and paste the file into a notepad document and save it as MyFeed.opml

  10. The 5 minute ego feed Step 6 Create an account in a reader like NetVibes or GoogleReader

  11. The 5 minute ego feed Step 7 Click on Add content Click on add a feed and then under OPML select import

  12. The 5 minute ego feed Step 7 Select Browse and select the MyFeed.opml document you made and then click on import

  13. The 5 minute ego feed Step 8 NetVibes will then give you a pretty graphic interface with the overall results and the results per feed

  14. Tweaking your feed Results can be quite varied and may need refining You can manually add feeds from sites You can edit or delete each feed on NetVibes

  15. Tweaking your feed Add in specific feeds like a twitter proximity feed or go more Boolean through their Advanced Search field

  16. Upgrade You can use various tools once you get the hang of it to get more results. Yahoo pipes more complicated but much more flexible for advanced users

  17. Upgrade Page2Rss is a service that will create RSS feeds from pages without RSS facilities Google Alerts can create RSS feeds on certain keywords MSN Keyword Mutation Detection Tool can see what common misspellings occur for a phrase and help you add them to your search External Google Keyword Tool helps you refine terms searched rather than your search terms

  18. You can now go out and build those relaltionships Or just stalk yourself…your choice really

  19. More sources How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard Creating An Ego Feed With Yahoo Pipes Page2RSS.com-Create RSS Feed For Any Web Page Using Netvibes To Create A Current Awareness Service In Healthcare Netvibes Tutorial

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