I just wanted to say a quick bit about Alltop Small Business. I’ve been using it as a home page for about a month now and it’s been really useful so far. Alltop is a collection of stories from "all the top" sites on the web in a single-page aggregation. (They have other categories at Alltop.com as well, not just small business.) I was also pretty happy to make Guy Kawasaki’s list myself, so I feel that I have to mention that part too.
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Martha Beck thinks you can get anything done if you can break it down into a 4-day action plan. - Ten Laws for Better E-mail
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New Things: Links Feed, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner (and some geek code)
I wanted a better way to showcase the really great stuff that I come across by other blog authors. I had been using my shared items feed from Google Reader, but I’m not the biggest fan of Google Reader and the options for display were very limited. (I’ve been trying Google Reader for nearly a month, but I think I prefer NewsFire more.) So, in this post, I am going to attempt to describe how I made a links feed, split WordPress to make that links feed appear in the right sidebar, changed my WordPress templates to exclude that links feed, changed my FeedBurner settings to reflect those alterations, used a new Facebook App to display my new combined links + site feed on my Facebook profile, and carried that all over to Twitter. (Phew!)
In English: I can now share links to quality content from other blogs on my site, and combine those links with my own feed on my Facebook and Twitter profiles. This serves multiple purposes: to add value for my readers, and to increase my reach both through my blog and other social media sites. I will start with an explanation of the whys, and then get into the code in a stepwise fashion.
Feeds, Readers, and Providing Value
I really think there’s not enough said about what feeds can do, and what they can do for your business. During the remodel of this site, and the building of two others that I am working on, I have been doing a lot of thinking about feeds and their uses. And now, I’d like to share these thoughts regarding building value and relationships through feeds with you.