#EIR - How to find click-worthy links to tweet, quickly & easily

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#EIR - How to find click-worthy links to tweet, quickly & easily

Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Mon, May 03, 2010 @ 05:43 PM

A wonderful way to help your friends and establish a strong, positive presence on Twitter is to tweet links to informative articles on the internet. Helping to educate your Twitter community is also an essential component of the #EIR (Engage, Inform & Retweet) plan for success on Twitter.

But surfing the internet can be so time consuming, I hear you say. Well here's a way to bring the information you want right to you in a way that will:

* not clutter up your email inbox

* give you timely updates from all of your most trusted blogs & news sources

* allow you to see them all on one page that you can organize to your liking

It's the magical and highly useful RSS feed and if you aren't using it now, you aren't making the best use of your news gathering time.

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Tags: social media, Twitter, retweet, #EIR, marketing, online, Online Communities, Social network, Virtual community

Comments

I use the iGoogle home page too- a great resource by itself for organizing links.

You can get so much info by RSS feed now. Using Google Reader, I sort by topic and add the Twitter feeds in with the other posts and articles from all media types. Then I add one instance of the Google Reader app for each topic to the iGoogle Home Page and select a category for each one. This way I don't have to have one box for each feed and my home page isn't a mile long.

:D Been there!

Great post!

Posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 11:44 AM by Emily Breder

Emily,

I'm so curious about your method! I'd love to see a screen shot of your Google home page. Do you see blog updates under the topics?

Posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 12:20 PM by Jenise Fryatt

Sure! I'll email you a screenshot.

I see all RSS updates in the topics. In Google Reader, you can label or tag the feeds after you add them, and you can add as many as you like to a label. In the Google Bookmarks app on iGoogle, you can select the label in the drop-menu and each time you reload the page, it stays on that label so you don't have to select it each time. I always have about a half-dozen instances of the Google Bookmarks app on my page, mixed in with the Google search terms for our company name and RSS feeds I like to follow individually.

The best part is that you can pull a feed for all of those feeds combined and put it on your website. This doesn't work well on all platforms, and with large feeds it can develop hiccups, but if you'd like your core network to have a feed on your website it can be really useful.

Posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 1:02 PM by Emily

Correction: I meant Google Reader, not Google Bookmarks. I use the other too, but not for RSS feeds.

Posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 1:58 PM by Emily Breder

Emily,

Well you certainly sparked some activity on my Google homepage! Thanks so much for sending over the screenshot. It got me poking around to see if I was making the most of my options on iGoogle.

I like to see titles of the latest blogposts for all my feeds - and I found out that if I go to the iGoogle settings, I can free up space on my homepage by creating new "tab" iGoogle pages and organizing my feeds that way.

So on the side of my homepage, it now lists the tab categories (social media, event industry, etc) and when I click on those, it brings up a new iGoogle page with all my feeds in that topic with the latest posts listed. Yay! Now my homepage doesn't take so long to load. Thanks again!!

Posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 2:36 PM by Jenise Fryatt

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