Personalized web listening dashboards
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The document discusses personalized web listening dashboards using Really Simple Syndication (RSS), which allows users to subscribe to updates from multiple blogs and sites through a single interface. It highlights key functions such as managing information flow and monitoring media coverage related to projects or organizations. The document provides instructions for setting up RSS feeds and organizing content through services like Google Reader and Netvibes.
Personalized web listening dashboards
- 1. Personalized web listening dashboards FAO Social Media Workshop
- 2. Definition 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
- 3. Definition Ready for some stories!
- 4. 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
- 5. Example: Monitoring the media You can subscribe to keywords searched in Google News New stories will come up in Google Reader
- 6. How to use it Create an account – Google Reader or Netvibes Subscribe to feeds – Two clicks; by url Organize your content – Using tags and folders; in tabs
- 9. …Clean list in your Reader
- 10. When feeds are not polite… Copy feed URL…
- 11. Add feed in your reader
- 12. Creating public pages - Netvibes
- 13. Add content by url
- 14. 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
- 15. Personalized web listening dashboards FAO Social Media Workshop
Editor's Notes
- #4: Netvibes is another tool to read RSS feeds. You can have a personal page and also set up public pages. This is very useful for teams for examples, or to collect social media outputs from an event, of to reflect multiple voices from the different actors you work with.
- #5: To add new content to Netvibes, simply create a new dashboard, then click add content and paste the feed address – similar as you do in Google Reader when adding by url