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The question came up yesterday on how I read so many different blogs and so many posts daily and NOT spend all day doing it.
My answer...

Google's Feed Reader

Let's see if a video might help explain

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Posted by Mike Mueller on 01/08/2008 01:27 PM

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38 Comments on How I use my feed reader

JAN

2008

Mike - a really excellent tutorial. Thanks for putting this together for the troops. My only criticsm is that I didn't see SOUNDBITEBLOG in any of your reader categories!

Great information and very much needed! I spend way too much time looking through various websites for blogs and other info.

Mike this is great information.

Rich - Thanks - and yes it is there - Filed under realtors. It's alphabetical. You are right below Mary Smartt and a bit above Jay and somebody in Putnam -

Who's that? Sounds like an ice cream company.

You can also see that they are "all read".

Wonderful information. I'm always looking for ways to save time.

Mike: Google has so many wonderful toys! I also love their Calendar.... you can synch your google calendar with any other google user! :) Thanks for the tutorial!!!

Good one Mike! Love the tutorial... (yeah, you showed Rich for trying to self promote hahaha) Oops...he's AR now...shshhhhh.

okay, okay!....all is forgiven! Sally, me try to self-promote??....never!

Chelle - Everyone here has a feed they are publishing from AR - Most of them don't know it. I read every post that in the newbie group this way. Great for outside blogs, great for AR blogs too!

Terry - Thanks !

Jen - There's one other trick I elluded to called the "JJJ" trick. Coming soon to a blog near you...

Richard - You bettcha! I have given my assistant, and my wife the ability to add dates to my calendar. I also have the Cal Bears football schedule, the SJ Sharks Hockey schedule, all financial matters (Fed minutes, Job Reports, Home sales, and so on) filter to my Calendar.

Sally - I was going to delete his comment for the comment spam but bit my tongue instead. You notice I didn't even mention that the last post was back on Dec 30th... I wasn't even going to say that. Nope, not me...

Thanks for the information. I really needed a good explaination and the video supplied that. Google has much to offer.

I'm just starting to use Google's feed reader, and I really like the organization of the iGoogle page. Thanks for a great tutorial, Mike!

A very simple task indeed. The real time constraint is sitting down and doing it. Thanks for the direction. Lu

Mike - figured out how to add a You Tube Frame today because I kept watching you do it... now... I can't even rest on my laurels! This is great - thanks for sharing - and you and Sally are right - that Christmas Tree needs to come down. LOL!

Excellent. I thought I was up to date with Google Alerts. I've got a lot to learn!

good info...I will use it.

Great pointer for anyone not already using the reader. I'm sure many people are finding themselves with a lot of extra time on their hands today! :)

This is wonderful information, a great tutorial, and now I have one more thing to add to my list. I already have google so will get the igoogle set up. Then I can go in and add the blogs that I'm interested in. Thanks so much,

Google has excellent tools, I've been using the reader for a while now and it is good to see how someone else is using it. Thanks

I like this way to ram through the blogs! If it could just be easier to comment as well life would be perfect.

If I weren't sitting in the dark with one of my little ones passed out of me, I would watch this video. But since I am, I am bookmarking it for later!

Mike -thanks for the great info and the tutorial. I am spending a lot of time just on the reading the AR blogs, hopefully this would make it more time efficient.

great info!!

I'm really beginning to like the video tutorials. Nice presentation... I like the quality...sound needed up a little.

Love my google reader... THanks for sharing yours.

Google has so many wonderful tools. Thanks for putting this together!

JAN

2008

Hi Mike: What an excellent training video. I have Gmail, and use iGoogle, so I will try and find that Feed Reader in their pages of stuff, and start using it. Thanks so much for sharing. Take care...

Mike: I took a look at some of your posts, and I liked what I saw, so I have subscribed to your blog. Thanks again for sharing.

This is good stuff. Thanks for sharing it with us all.

Great timing, I spent quite a few hours this weekend setting up my igoogle pages and feed reader.

How do I delete blogs from the reader? Have too many it is mind boggling.

Thanks

This was my first chance of playing with Jing. As you can tell, I'm no Jeff Turner.

Here's a couple of links that might help answer all your questions:

I wrote this post earlier, Blog Reading for Un-Dummies

Google's Feed Reader is here: Google Reader

And if you want to start reading the 110+ blogs I am subscribed to here's the LINK

To properly import that you'll need a little help. Blog Reading for Un-Dummies has directions to use your built in Reader in Internet Explorer. I'll have to write one for Google's Feed Reader.

How do you delete blogs you've subscribed to? Easy. In the left bar, click on the title of the feed, as in Mike's Minute. Top right you'll see a button that says "Feed Settings", drop down to "unsubscribe".

This is also where you would tell your reader what folders you want that feed filtered into (like my FUN folder)

Really cool tutorial Mike. Kept thinking how did he do that while watching, then saw it was jing. downloaded it and want to learn how to do that.

trust the new year is serving you well, and thanks again for this one.

cheers

Mike, one of the things I noticed when looking at your home page is...for goodness sakes!!! You need to clean out your inbox!! LOL

Hi Mike,

Very helpful to have this. Wish I could be as organized and focused as this but now maybe this will give me the inspiration! :)

Lisa

Gary - This was my first try at Jing. I definitely have to up the volume. Learning as we go.

Linda - LOL As you might guess I have a system for Gmail as well. I use Outlook Express. All my gmail goes there and is filtered so in my Gmail inbox - it never shows as being read. At Mike@PatagoniaFinance.com I normally get a couple of hundred emails a day. Much is spam - but I don't have a spam filter.

Lisa - You are welcome!

I just upped the number of blogs I subscribed to and started using the goggle Feed Reader. It is pretty cool. I used to have all of the different blogs on my iGoogle page... but that got out of hand when I go up to 20 or 30 different blogs. And some of them post up several times per day.

Mike, thanks for this. I get mine through email and it gets overwhelming so this is a great alternative!

Look...Rich ran away after that one...hahahaha....and if he comes back ...delete this...lol!

Thanks for the video Mike, I am going to run and get IGoogle:)

JAN

2008

I have started using the igoogle more and more, manly to stop all the emails I was getting my subscribing to blogs through email. This is so much more efficient and the tutorial was excellent.

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