Readers here who enjoyed my post on How and Why to Use Feedburner (for RSS management) may like a recent interview I did with Rick Klau, VP of biz dev at FeedBurner. Very understandable, yet in depth at the same time. The most interesting part is how they count the number of subscribers.
TagCentral Tags: FeedBurner, RSS, Klau, interviews
If this works, it couldn’t be easier. I ran an OPML file through this sweet new service Grazr and this is what I got. Click around and check it out. Wow.
Oops it didn’t work. Wonder why. It sure is a sweet service, I’ll have to find time later to figure it out. My browser keeps reading the quotes around one of the URLs as if it should display quotes, not that I’m putting a bit of code in quotes for its benefit. I’ve been spending a rediculous amount of time here trying to make it stop.
UPDATE: Several people tried to help me out with it, but Brian Benzinger of SolutionWatch.com saved the day, finding me the WP plug-in I needed to turn off the auto-reformatting of the quotes in my post! Yay Brian!!
Now you can see below the beauties of Grazr, in action here with my NetSquared/NonProfit News OPML file. Go click around inside here – it’s incredible! Let’s have a race, shall we, to figure out how many different ways this tool is going to be useful. I’d start first, but I want to see if anyone else can take it in an unexpected direction before I write how I think this will be useful. Oh I’m so excited!
Unfortunately, you can only have one per page, as far as I can tell right now. So check the sidebar where I’m puting it to good use.
TagCentral Tags: OPML, Grazer, RSS, demonstration, nptech
Things are nuts after some time on the road, but I want to post some links here for readers interested in helpful research tools I’ve covered elsewhere, primarily on the Social Software Weblog.
I’m writing 60 posts a month on that blog, so there’s always lots to read, but those are two of the most helpful in terms of research. See also over at NetSquared:
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Back from SXSW. Had a great time. Now lots of catch up to do. I’ll post the fruits of my labor here over the next week or so.
I like this list of tips, it’s thorough and succinct. From Rob Cottingham at Social Signal, a Vacouver consultancy that you should check out if you’re interested in a key example of what people are doing in the Web 2.0 and nonprofit space. I work with Social Signal folks on Net Squared.
From their e-newsletter:
Tips on beginning to blog
1. Serve yourself. Know why you’re blogging: a sense of mission can go a long way to keeping your blog interesting, focused and on track.
2. Serve your audience. Figure out who you want to reach, and what they’re looking for (as well as what they don’t need to hear).
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It’s very hot here. There are lots of people, but I’m having a hard time connecting with specific folks because the name tags are very small and the affiliations are even smaller.
I had lunch with some people from the Yahoo Publishers’ Network, thought they were going to be super corporate but actually felt great about them as people!
Getting to see quite a few web friends face to face and that’s been great.
Sorry I can’t say anything more interesting, I’ll write up a report back later. Thanks for stopping by my blog! I promise that this is the least helpful post here, all the others are better.