Personalized home pages

WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program

October 2012

What’s all about

Using RSS feeds to set up a personal home page

– to ‘read’ the web in a different way– to save time when looking for new content

It’s the first thing I check in the morning – also before my mailbox!

Allows me keep on top of the news and the information I need to know for my work and my interests

RSS what?!

Really Simple Syndication A publishing format

that lets you to subscribe to and receive latest updates from your favourite blogs and sites all from within a single newsreader program

RSS – A better definition…

Ready for some stories!

Key functions it supports

Managing your information flow, to keep track of latest updates from your favourites sources

Working more efficiently by subscribing to feeds and see what’s new from multiple sources, in one single interface

Monitoring what the media is saying about your project/programme/organization

Example: Monitoring the media

You can subscribe to keywords searched in Google News

New stories will come up in Google Reader

How to use it

Create an account – Google Reader or Netvibes

• Google reader as personal home page• Netvibes good to create public home pages

Subscribe to feeds– Two clicks; by url

Organize your content– Using tags and folders; in tabs

Three clicks subscription

‘Polite’ feeds…

See also http://euforicservices.com

…Clean list in your Reader

When feeds are not polite…

Copy feed URL…

Copy feed url

Add feed url in your reader

Creating public pages - Netvibes

Add content by url

Using Feedly on top of Your Google Reader

Why Feedly?

Giving Google Reader a nicer interface– Magazine style

Importing Twitter and Facebook content

Leveraging on 'social engagement', to see on your front page the most popular items from your sources

Great mobile Apps – looking even better than the desktop version!

Flipboard – Social magazine for mobiles and tablets

Hands on exercise

Go to http://www.google.com/ig– Log in with your own username and

password;

Or

Create an account at http://netvibes.com

Find 3/5 sites or blogs that you use daily – If RSS is available, subscribe to it

Add one or two gadgets

Personalized home pages

WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program

October 2012