August 2008

How To Use RSS Feeds To Keep Up To Date With Your Favourite Blogs

By now if you have had a look around Technorati and starting surfing the web using the StumbleUpon Toolbar, you will have no doubt found yourself an amazing number of blogs that you would like to keep up to date with. In a previous post I gave a very generic introduction to the How To [...]

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4 Benefits Of Gmail

How does Google promote its own free online email service as the best place to set up email address? Take 4:21 to watch this video and they will explain the following for benefits of Gmail: (1). Fights Spam (2). Conversations (3). Search (4). Gmail and Chat combined.

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Why Gmail Is The Best Place To Set Up Email Address

I have written of my own personal positive experience with Gmail, but I thought I would collate for you other reviews of the Gmail service. This information should help in you if you are making a decision about setting up email address or if you are considering to moving to an online email service. Check [...]

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Reviewing Sites With Your StumbleUpon Toolbar

In my last, I explained how to download the StumbleUpon Toolbar and how you can the use the StumbleUpon Toolbar to web surf through areas of your interest. Today I want to look at how you can add sites that you like to StumbleUpon. Like the majority of social media sites, StumbleUpon is based on [...]

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Downloading StumbleUpon Toolbar

Image: Wikipedia StumbleUpon describes itself in the following way: “StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests. Whether it’s a web page, photo or video, our personalized recommendation engine learns what you like, and brings you more.” To use StumbleUpon you need to download the StumbleUpon Toolbar and install it. During the installation process the [...]

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What Social Media Is Right For You?

So far I have encouraged you to set up email address and then a feed reader to keep up to date with blogs, news etc. It is important not to just join all forms of social media though. The relevance of some services may be very low to you and of course there is also [...]

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Want To Know What Obama Or McCain Are Reading?

Image: jervetson In my last post I explained how you could find blogs to subscribe to on Technorati, to fill your chosen feed reader. Today I will show you how you can subscribe to what other people are reading. The process that I describe here is specifically with Google Reader. In Google Reader there is [...]

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Finding Blogs To Subscribe To On Technorati

Image from Wikipedia If you have set up an email address and worked out the how to of RSS Feeds, then you might be looking for something to put into your empty reader. An authoritative first place to start is Technorati. Defined in simple terms Technorati is a search engine for blogs. When you go [...]

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Simple Video Explanation Of How To RSS Feeds

Common Craft made this video and posted it on You Tube. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The video is aimed at those on the internet that have not yet learned the how to of RSS feeds. The video goes for under four minutes and is [...]

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Another Convert To Gmail

Image: Wikipedia Darren Rowse is the force behind Problogger. He is a full time professional blogger with a subscribed readership of over 45,000 people. In April Rowse lamented on Twitter about his exploding email inbox. Many of his followers sent him advice an tips to help him manage the 10,000 emails he had in his [...]

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