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Want to populate a blog widget from Google Reader? You still can. (Updated: Or maybe not.)

Use tags to replace the RSS feed from Google Reader's "Share" button

1 November, 2011
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by Rob Cottingham

Updated: Yes, you get a news feed from this tip... but it's only available if you authenticate as the user who created it. I'm digging around to see if there's a solution.

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Not only working, but multitasking

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I'd favorite you any day, Valentine

A tasty Valentine's Day greeting from Social Signal

14 February, 2011
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by Alex and Rob

A box of chocolates, including RSS's Pieces, Delicious Chocolate Heart, Techcrunchy Frog, ReadWhiteChocolate, Petit Foursquare, Remember the Milk Chocolate, Truffl, Mintstapaper, HootSweet, Marshmallow Cloud, Bittertweet Chocolate and Heavenly Hashtag. Title: To the sweetest thing online, the sweetest things online. Happy Valentine's Day!

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How to feed iGoogle

Adding an RSS feed to your iGoogle page

26 January, 2011
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by Rob Cottingham

I've been teaching social media fundamentals in the UBC and Emily Carr University continuing studies programs for nearly two years now. Early on in every course, I show students how to use iGoogle (and similar services) into a social media dashboard, displaying the latest results from online searches, must-read blogs and other sources.

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The 5 requirements for using RSS aggregation to build your online presence

21 October, 2010
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by Alexandra Samuel

Part 4 of a series. Originally appeared on AlexandraSamuel.com.

The rule of 90-9-1 means that small organizations with focused audiences are unlikely to create highly participatory, self-reinforcing online communities. But they can still benefit from using social media tools to engage their audiences in online conversation. And one of the most exciting options is very useful to large organizations and businesses, too.

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Convert Twitter lists to RSS feeds with one click

12 July, 2010
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by Rob Cottingham

Twitter's relatively new Lists feature can be a handy way of teasing a melody out of the cacophony of incoming tweets, as well as compiling a collection of worthwhile voices on a particular subject.

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Google Reader: the first social newsreader?

20 July, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

Think of a social network, and you probably think of something like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace or Bebo. (If you're especially old-school, or Brazilian, you might think of Orkut.)

Either way, you're thinking of a capital-S, capital-N Social Network. You join it as a social network, probably with the initial intention of connecting with people.

But some social networks can kind of sneak up on you. You think you're there to do something purely solitary, but then something happens...

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Blogging like it's 2009

18 tools for effective social media participation on blogs and beyond

30 May, 2009
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by Alexandra Samuel

What are the essential tools for blogging and online conversation in 2009? Social Signal friend and advisor Leda Dederich recently asked me for an update to the post I wrote on this topic four years ago. Happily, SoSi staffer Karen Fung recently wrote an excellent post that ran through the specific tools I reviewed in 2005. But I thought I'd step back and offer an answer to the underlying question: what tools do I need to participate effectively in the thriving world of social media?

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10 tools from 2005 that tapped the power of blogs - where are they now?

9 March, 2009
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by Karen Fung

In 2005, fresh out of the Online Deliberation 2005 conference, Social Signal CEO Alexandra Samuel wrote about 10 tools that tap the power of blogs. As we were working on relaunching our website, we had a chance to take a second look at this post and thought it'd be fun to do a bit of a retrospective: what's happened to these 10 tools in the past 4 years, as blogging has become more popular and mainstream?

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It's lonely at the top

5 December, 2008
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by Rob Cottingham

Google Reader, our newsreader of choice here at Social Signal (hunter-destroyer droids constantly prowl the premises, looking for holdouts still using Bloglines... there's one now! KABOOM!)...

...anyway, Google Reader has launched a redesign. It's crisper, cleaner, simpler and faster.

But apparently, there's a downside: you'll have a lot fewer friends.

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