The pain of having multiple social bookmarking accounts

Anybody know a good solution to the problem of wanting more than one (like personal and work) social bookmarking accounts? If you’re logged into one, you’ve pretty much got to log out of it and log into the other if you want to switch. This is totally counterintuitive to the river of content that is web 2.0. Workflow or tech solutions anyone? The best I can think of is to just use two different systems. Save work in Spurl.net and personal in del.icio.us, for example. Really no fun, though. And it complicates the use of otherwise fantastic tools like OnlyWire.

Maybe if I link to Identity Woman she’ll come save the day and help us out with some ideas or perspective.

7 Ways to Use Grazr

Grazr is one of apparently several mini OPML browsers, but it’s the one I’ve used so far and I like it. If you haven’t seen it in action, check out the “my favorites” box in my sidebar. I think there are lots of different and interesting ways that this kind of tool could be used, so here’s a list of ideas I’ve come up with so far (please feel free to add more).

  1. When you create an OPML file to share with people, give them a way to look inside it by posting a Grazr box next to your write up of the file.
  2. Have a blogroll on the side of your site? Save space and display more information by displaying your blogroll in a Grazr box. (I have.)
  3. Planning an event someplace? Pack a whole lot of information about the event, its participants and its location all into one OPML file displayed in a box.
  4. Going to a conference and want to share info with your loved ones? You could set up a box to display your flight schedule’s RSS feed, your blog posts, flickr photos tagged for the conference, etc.
  5. Have a project that you want to discuss that has multiple subsections with subsections therein? Put it into outline form and display it with one of these groovy boxes.
  6. Create a list and let readers click through to the most recent photos, audio or text regarding each item in the list.
  7. Schedule tasks with progressively more granular descriptions or instructions. Some people will only click through to see that Jane is working at 2:00, others may click through to see that she’s calling Joe on the phone to talk about subjects A, B and C.

This list has infinite potential, but I’ve run out of time. You get the idea. Working with OPML outlines is going to get easier and easier and this new way of displaying them is a key step. Heck, this list could be elaborated on, have lots of details added, and work great inside one of these dynamic boxes itself.

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CommunityWalk redesign coming along great

Check out the awesome new Explore feature over at the mapping service Community Walk. Not only increasingly functional but professional looking too. Search, tag clouds and so much more. I should write up a comparative review of these different mapping services. I said I was going to awhile ago, but the head of Community Walk told me I should wait a bit for their redesign. Now I can see why!

Grazr demonstration

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.

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