Sunday, May 16, 2021

RSS Feeds - Putting a sprayer on the firehydrant

 I appreciate the analogy in the introduction this week about a fire hydrant feel.  

Image of a wet dog walking through water.


But my chin is up and I am moving forward.  I re-watched the information provided on RSS feeds and that feels a priority to for me. I read some reviews of different RSS reader apps.  Here is a top 10 list.  I appreciated the extra information we already received on two in the top 3. 

I selected Feedly to start setting up RSS feeds.  But I discovered that in order to have the twitter feeds added I needed to sign up for a paid account.  So I searched for RSS feeds and twitter.  I found this article by Feeder recommending their product that includes twitter feeds. 

I set up a free Feeder account. And yay! I have the Twitter feed for class added. I also added the extension to Chrome so I can just click on that and get a list of tweets in a column. I also like that when I added the twitter feed I was able to select a folder or create a new folder.

I am now adding in all our class blogs.  I notice it gives me the option to follow the blog and the comments separately. Here is a bit more on Feeder. 

I look forward to trying this out over the next few weeks and maybe switching to a paid subscription later if I want more features.   Drying off and getting ready for next week. Have a great week!

Image of a dog being dried off in a towel.




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5 comments:

  1. That Will Show ThemMay 16, 2021 at 2:27 PM

    My feeling exactly, I feel like this is coming at me from a fire hose! So impressed with how you connected everything and need to make a note to go back, look at this pose and connect my twitter account. I feel like I am in a million places to get things done for this course and like to be more organized.

    Cut pup, a doodle?

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    1. crs6414blog21May 16, 2021 at 7:33 PM

      Thanks. My dream puppy but not yet, hopefully soon. Have a great week ThatWillShowThem

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  2. ElloMay 16, 2021 at 4:04 PM

    Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this article about feeds! I like to consider myself moderately savvy when it comes to social media platforms, but I never quite mastered blogging -- I am going to need as much help as possible!

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  3. VanessaMay 16, 2021 at 7:14 PM

    Psst. In Week 2 on the tool page I just dropped in my OPML file. You can download it and import it into your feed reader and VOILA you will have all of the class blogs there.

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