Detailed Notes
This is the final part of a tutorial and overview for the RSS Reader and Promoter (reader.rb-sns.com) site. We get into the questions and answers part of the presentation. Our goal was to provide an easy way to read and share articles. You can schedule posts for social media sites and easily keep up with all of the latest news. While we have started a list of RSS feeds for your use, you can easily add any others to the list, and they will be shared with other users. However, you will be able to keep track of which article you have read or shared.
A Repository of Articles When we grab the articles for a feed, we store as much of the original content as possible. Therefore, you can refer to posts made years ago and long after a site has ceased to exist. The Internet can often feel like shifting sand. One of our goals is to make it a little more firm and useful for discussions.
Users can share articles and add comments around the post (limited to the social site features) and see both the original content and their share comments.
Getting Started It is (currently) free and easy to get started. Just register an account on reader.rb-sns.com. Then click on the "Subscribe to New Feed" button on the home page. You can add a new feed or select one that someone else has created. You should see posts for a brand new feed appear within a day. If not, please send an email to [email protected] so we can help get it live. Please note that some feeds provide limited article information, so you may not get as much as others.
Once you have subscribed to feeds, click on the Articles menu item. This will pull the most recent 100 unread articles matching your feed or across all subscribed feeds. You can mark an item as read or click on the read article or post article buttons to shift it to read status. We offer the full article content where possible. You can click on view original to go to the original site link (if still available).
Post Targets You can read articles almost immediately upon subscribing to feeds. However, if you want to share them, you need to set up targets for those shares. This is done on the post targets page. A button labeled "Create A New Target" takes you to link to your social sites. All you have to do to get started is pick a name for the target and select the social site.
An example would be to create a target for your personal Twitter feed. You can label it "Personal Twitter" and then select Twitter as the "lkpTarget." Once you save a target, click on edit to Authorize the target. That will take you through the site-specific steps to authorize RSS Reader to post to your feed or page.
Posting Articles When you post an article, you can add content to your post. This is entered in the description text field. Sites vary support for this, so test it out for your chosen targets. You can also add an image URL for sites that support that. Currently, we have limited image support. Select a target site you have configured (via Post Targets) and set a time to post it. You can set up time slots for scheduled posts to ease your administration of regular content flow.
Once you post the item, it can be viewed via the Articles view activity filter or "My Schedule" menu item. You can post and duplicate to quickly post to one target and then select a second target or time to post the article.
Scheduling Posts We do not have to post an article right away. We can set it to go out in the future. This is done by selecting the desired date and time on the post screen. You can streamline this process by going to the "Time Slots" page. Here you enter a day, time, and target site to give yourself some pre-built time slots throughout the week. These can be deleted if you want to change them around. These will show up in the slots selector on the "post" page to speed data entry for upcoming posts and avoid doing date arithmetic in your head.
Unused Articles Articles that have been marked read but never posted fall into the unused category. You can always run back through these for more content. Note that it pulls all articles, which can become a rather long list and take some time to retrieve. However, you can read or post articles from here and catch up on things you may have found uninteresting in the past.
Feel free to check back here regularly for updates and a FAQ as we get feedback on the RSS Reader and Promoter. You can also click on the contact form to send us ideas or bug reports. Enjoy!
Transcript Text
[Music] and so now okay so let's take a look in the posting article actually i guess there's two things here let's go back to first uh we did i showed you some of the basics about it is that you can schedule it um you could have one that's just posted and just sort of save it for yourself and you actually there's a feature that you can actually create your own rss feed but that's an advanced thing i'm not going to cover it's also a sort of a 2.0 feature that has not been fully tested so what i can do is i can pick a target i can push something into the future so if i want to do this on the 25th and i'm going to pick a that guy slots i'll show you in a second so i'm going to duplicate it and i'm going to get a couple of these just so we've got a few here and then same thing and let's do it again on 7 30. so and i'm going to post that and now you can see where those were showing up if i go to my schedule i can see oh this is what's i got so oh because i already marked these as posted so these are actually going to be i'm just restoring these out right now these have not actually been posted i should have scheduled these that was my mistake so i can go in with each of those i can repost it so if i do a repost it's just like a duplicate so it's going to come in with the original information i can schedule it and then i can give it you know some date in the far future or in the future so if i do that and post it oh i can post it somewhere so i post it here post it now it's going to show up there's that august one so that shows up in there if i go to my schedule i can see with now because that has not been posted i can go in i can take a look at it and i can actually remove it because it has not been posted now the other thing in a post is there's this little slots thing and this allows you to do uh time slots ahead of um ahead of sort of to set up your own social schedule so i could say every monday at uh let's say 8 a.m i'm gonna post uh and i'm going to tie this i'm going to tie this to a specific target so on this target i created i want to have monday at 8 monday at let's say 10 and let's see i'm going to assume this is still working because i think it just didn't refresh on me so now if i look at my time slots oh it's not coming out right so let me see what did i do i may have broken something make sure i got this right don't valentine something's not right on this let me try it on a different one i may have just found a bug okay let me log out and go to a regular one where i have some i'll just skip ahead to this so now uh this one and so i've come through and i've got all of these different uh slots that i've created you can see so i've got posting to different targets on a sunday a monday um oh and that's where it is so that thing was giving yeah so it came into the wrong slide so there's a little bug there that it was posting it was adding the queue to the wrong place but what i can do is i can come in and create new ones so let's do sunday at i don't know two in the afternoon i'm gonna post to one of these and i'm gonna see here that that just showed up now what i have from the let me delete a couple of those i can delete them and so they won't show up [Music] let's get rid of that and that because i already had those let's get rid of that so 7 11 and note that i can make it it doesn't have to be like a set time particularly and then what happens when i go in and do a post oops well here's let me go to an article and just post something real quick let's see so if i do [Music] let's pick something let's go something off of uh let's do smashing so here we go i like this guy so if i'm gonna do a post now what i can do here is can pick a slot and it's going to set the time for me so let's say i wanted to do i'm going to push this as linkedin tuesday at 10 o'clock i'm going to use that slot so now what it did is there's where the slot is this is the next tuesday uh you know currently it is saturday the 19th so it's going to just jump ahead and right now it's only a week ahead so you can do it for the week ahead and that's a quick way to set a time i can give it the target and post it and now i'm off and running so linkedin on tuesday if i go look at my schedule i'm going to see what was that the one that was smashing there we go so i can see here although this is sort of small let's even blow this up a little bit so here's where i have that scheduled out and if i look at the detailed history i can see really not a whole lot to it if i look at gosh go away if i go to [Music] let's go here i think i had on history where did i put my history oh activity here we go so this thing this is an older account so i've got i can see stuff all the way back what have i done now i can go back and say well what did i do with this article for example and i look at the history i can see this thing i posted it on october 8th at 9 16 to three different places i went to twitter looks like it went there three times i must have been testing something now even though and this is actually i broke this account out so this is a target uh currently that doesn't exist but i have it for historical purposes uh development or twitter i'm not actually posting that these days but i could still turn around and do a repost and it's going to give me the original article stuff i had like here for example i did a little hashtag aws that i threw in there and now it's scheduled for essentially you know today i can schedule it out i can pick a slot which just doesn't have any right now and i can go off and running so that's an interesting thing is that the repost doesn't have slots but i also can still go back from here on the history i can see where the prior post was and this is almost getting a little bit unreal because i'm blowing the text up so big but now i can get back to oh i'm sorry i didn't want to drag and drop but i can see the original article and if i wanted and like you can see here the content's pretty thorough this is one um oh i think this was from developer nor is that what it was um no this is from aws so aws feedburner so this is amazon's feedburner and they've got even including like uh you know videos embedded all this stuff is in the article itself or i can jump back to the original here which i'm either going to click on the link or i think it's down at the bottom it wasn't oh i don't have the original link necessarily built in here but i can take that and let's see if it still exists and it does and so you see where it's you know this thing's although it was from a while back uh we can still see roughly like i said theirs is going to be formatted a little bit differently but we'll probably see the video there you go video down at the bottom and so you can actually go back and see something that even if you weren't so you know even if you signed up today and registered you'd be able to go back and see some of these older articles so it's a great way uh to come back and and see what was out there and also to track i use it also it's a great way to track as a repository for information track stuff that maybe gets rolled off of a site this is actually very useful particularly if you wanted to do something like a link to maybe a software version or something like that that you know maybe that stuff sort of falls off the site but the the link is still there or instructions that sometimes get updated over time for example let's say you've got an article on java that's an older instructional article you want to keep it even though it over time it's obviously going to disappear as new versions come out you can have that stuff out there so it's again like i said it's a it is a 1.0 version of an interface but uh it's something i've started to use i use actually regularly now uh you can it is um if you go here i don't know how well you can see it but it is um i guess this background crap out of the way is you can actually do it on a phone as well so i could come in and i i do on a regular basis so i can come in i can take a look at articles and i can go through and i can read them or or mark them as read and it's going to give you the same kind of an experience so it is a great way to have a reader that's available to you wherever you want to read articles and you know handle some of your social networking kinds of stuff let's jump back to the presentation so as a wrapping up sort of what we've learned so the reader and promoter is uh hopefully you've seen that it's a simple tool for reading articles that's that is uh while you can post the the nicest thing about it i found so far and the thing that i've really focused on streamlining is the ability to subscribe to a feed see the latest articles mark them as read share them um storm off however you need to so you can actually keep up with stuff that's out there along with that it is nice to have the sorry the ability to look at feeds and find feeds that maybe you don't use so you can you know like now i don't subscribe to techcrunch but maybe i decide i want to and so now it's going to show up next time around let's see if it's run yet it probably hasn't oh it has so techcrunch has already run and pulled in you know 20 articles and it does go back like this is not going to pull um it doesn't pull starting from like the moment you create the feed it's whatever is available on the feed which is usually maybe sometimes a day or two back it depends on what it is this one goes back uh a couple of days so now i can see you know some articles that are out there and some of them you're going to see this others you're going to see oh i don't have portable apps that sometimes has some a little more fun stuff to it but now i can you know take a look at those articles and add that to my list particularly if i go to all now i'm subscribed to a lot of feeds but you see here i've got literally you know i literally probably have a thousand articles that i could go through if i wanted to but a lot of this like for example here i don't care about say the clippers eliminating the jazz i can crank through some of this stuff very quickly as i want to and and or focus on specific articles like i said more coming as particularly with filtering and searching uh as we as we move forward and it is open to suggestions and requests so as people start to use it and they have their own needs and and benefits to it then we'll add those in there's you can use the posting feature to speed your shares on social sites currently there's very limited sites that it works with facebook just changed their stuff so there's it does not work it worked well with facebook up until about two months ago they changed their api as they do and uh currently it's broken and i'm not sure if i'm going to chase that down or not and i'm not sure whether that will impact trying to go to like an instagram but there are other sites out there and so that is you know part of the roadmap is to periodically add new sites and expand the ability of what you can actually post to uh as i said the bonus adding feeds for others so you can find feeds that are out there without having to do searches you know google searches for rss feeds and then you can also provide feeds for others for example i highly recommend and you know if you have a site if you've got a blog throw yours out there others may subscribe to it and get your readership up as i mentioned it's set up it's set up so that you can email info at developernoor.com for any bugs or feature requests and that'll be you know take those on as as we can because this will be definitely a work in progress and being one of those things that is a scratch your own itch since something that i use on a regular basis there will constantly and there are there are steady uh changes and updates to it that are made available that being said uh questions and comments can this be used as a marketing tool as a marketing tool no can it be used as a marketing tool oh definitely i mean you can definitely use it to because you can as as you've seen with this one that's one of the things that i do is um like for example if i go back and look at like i've got development or so this site i've got all of the stuff that's coming through on developing or and i can easily say hey i just put this thing out and that's a lot of my history is uh if i go look for developer newer yeah so there's a uh i have to spell it right there we go and so there's um and the sources are here so i can see all these little places where i have posted my articles out to different places so for example here's a developer newer article this one out to my twitter and linkedin and it's like i said again it's an easy way to do so so i can schedule that out to any of my social places and definitely from a marketing point of view i can share not only articles that i've written and my own content but things that i find useful that whatever my platform is you know followers may likely will find those useful as well [Music] you
Transcript Segments
[Music]
and so now okay so let's take a look
in the posting article actually i guess
there's two things here let's go back to
first
uh we did i showed you some of the
basics about it is that you can schedule
it um you could have one that's just
posted and just sort of save it for
yourself
and you actually there's a feature that
you can actually create your own rss
feed but that's an advanced thing i'm
not going to cover it's also a
sort of a 2.0 feature that has not been
fully tested
so what i can do is i can pick a target
i can push something into the future so
if i want to do this on the 25th
and i'm going to pick a
that guy
slots i'll show you in a second so i'm
going to duplicate it and i'm going to
get a couple of these just so we've got
a few here
and then same thing and let's do it
again on 7 30. so and i'm going to post
that and now you can see where those
were showing up if i go to my schedule
i can see oh this is what's
i got so oh because i already marked
these as posted so these are actually
going to be
i'm just restoring these out right now
these have not actually been posted i
should have scheduled these that was my
mistake so i can go in
with each of those i can repost it so if
i do a repost it's just like a duplicate
so it's going to come in with the
original information
i can schedule it and then i can give it
you know some date in the far future or
in the future
so if i do that and post it
oh i can post it somewhere so i post it
here post it
now it's going to show up there's that
august one so that shows up in there
if i go to my schedule i can see with
now because that has not been
posted
i can go in i can take a look at it and
i can actually remove it because it has
not been posted
now the other thing in a post is there's
this little slots thing and this allows
you to do
uh time slots ahead of
um
ahead of sort of to set up your own
social schedule
so i could say
every monday at
uh let's say 8 a.m
i'm gonna post uh and i'm going to tie
this i'm going to tie this to a specific
target so on this target i created
i want to have monday
at 8
monday at let's say 10
and let's see i'm going to assume this
is still working because i think it just
didn't refresh on me so now if i look at
my time slots
oh it's not coming out right so let me
see what did i do
i may have broken something
make sure i got this right
don't valentine
something's not right on this let me try
it on a different one i may have just
found a bug okay let me log out and go
to a regular one
where i have some
i'll just skip ahead to this
so now
uh this one
and so i've come through and i've got
all of these different
uh slots that i've created you can see
so i've got posting to different targets
on a sunday a monday
um
oh and that's where it is so that thing
was giving
yeah so it came into the wrong slide so
there's a little bug there that it was
posting it was adding the queue to the
wrong place
but what i can do is i can come in and
create new ones so let's do sunday at
i don't know two in the afternoon
i'm gonna post to one of these
and i'm gonna see here that that
just showed up
now what i have from the let me delete a
couple of those i can delete them and so
they won't show up
[Music]
let's get rid of that and that because i
already had those
let's get rid of that
so 7 11 and note that i can make it it
doesn't have to be like a set time
particularly
and then what happens when i go in and
do a post
oops
well here's
let me go to an article and just post
something real quick
let's see so if i do
[Music]
let's pick something let's go something
off of uh
let's do smashing
so here we go i like this guy so if i'm
gonna do a post
now what i can do here is
can pick a slot and it's going to set
the time for me so let's say i wanted to
do
i'm going to push this as linkedin
tuesday at 10 o'clock i'm going to use
that slot
so now what it did
is there's where the slot is this is the
next tuesday
uh you know currently it is saturday the
19th so it's going to just jump ahead
and right now it's only a week ahead so
you can do it for the week ahead
and that's a quick way to set a time i
can give it the target
and
post it and now i'm off and running so
linkedin on tuesday if i go look
at my schedule i'm going to see
what was that the one that was
smashing there we go so i can see here
although this is sort of small let's
even blow this up a little bit
so here's where i have that scheduled
out and if i look at the detailed
history i can see
really not a whole lot to it
if i look at
gosh go away
if i go to
[Music]
let's go here i think i had on history
where did i put my history oh activity
here we go
so this thing this is an older account
so i've got i can see stuff all the way
back what have i done now i can go back
and say well what did i do with this
article for example
and i look at the history i can see this
thing
i posted it on october 8th at 9 16
to three different places i went to
twitter looks like it went there three
times i must have been testing something
now even though
and this is actually i broke this
account out so this is a target uh
currently that doesn't exist but i have
it for historical purposes
uh development or twitter i'm not
actually posting that these days
but i could still turn around and do a
repost and it's going to give me the
original article stuff i had like here
for example i did a little hashtag aws
that i threw in there
and now it's scheduled for essentially
you know today i can schedule it out i
can pick a slot which just doesn't have
any right now
and i can go off and running so that's
an interesting thing is that the repost
doesn't have slots
but i also can still go back from here
on the history i can see where the prior
post was and this is almost getting a
little bit unreal because i'm blowing
the text up so big but now i can get
back to
oh i'm sorry i didn't want to drag and
drop but i can see the original article
and if i wanted and like you can see
here the content's pretty thorough this
is one
um oh i think this was from developer
nor is that what it was
um no this is from aws so aws feedburner
so this is amazon's feedburner and
they've got even including like uh you
know videos embedded all this stuff is
in the article itself or
i can jump back to
the original here
which i'm either going to click on the
link or i think it's down at the bottom
it wasn't
oh i don't have the original link
necessarily built in here
but i can
take that
and let's see if it still exists
and it does
and so you see where it's you know this
thing's although it was from a while
back
uh we can still see
roughly like i said theirs is going to
be formatted a little bit differently
but we'll probably see the video there
you go video down at the bottom
and so you can actually go back and see
something that even if you weren't so
you know even if you signed up today and
registered you'd be able to go back and
see some of these older articles so it's
a great way
uh to come back and and see what was out
there
and also to track
i use it also it's a great way to track
as a repository for information track
stuff that maybe gets rolled off of a
site
this is actually very useful
particularly if you wanted to do
something like a link to
maybe a software version or something
like that that you know maybe that stuff
sort of falls off the site but the
the link is still there
or instructions that sometimes get
updated over time
for example let's say you've got
an article on java that's an older
instructional article you want to keep
it even though it over time it's
obviously going to disappear as new
versions come out
you can have that stuff out there
so it's again like i said it's a
it is a 1.0 version of an interface but
uh it's something i've started to use i
use actually regularly now uh you can it
is um
if you go here
i don't know how well you can see it but
it is
um i guess this background crap out of
the way
is you can actually do it on a phone as
well so i could come in and i i do on a
regular basis so i can come in i can
take a look at articles
and i can go through and i can read them
or or mark them as read
and it's going to give you the same kind
of an experience so it is a
great way to have a reader that's
available to you wherever
you want to read articles and you know
handle some of your social networking
kinds of stuff
let's jump back to the presentation
so as a
wrapping up sort of what we've learned
so the reader and promoter is uh
hopefully you've seen that it's a simple
tool for reading articles that's that is
uh while you can post the the nicest
thing about it i found so far and the
thing that i've really focused on
streamlining is the ability to subscribe
to a feed see the latest articles mark
them as read share them
um storm off however you need to so you
can actually keep up with stuff that's
out there
along with that it is nice to have
the
sorry the ability to look at feeds
and find feeds that maybe you don't use
so you can you know like now i don't
subscribe to techcrunch but maybe i
decide i want to and so now it's going
to show up next time around let's see if
it's run yet it probably hasn't oh it
has so techcrunch has already run
and pulled in
you know 20 articles and it does go back
like this is not going to pull
um
it doesn't pull starting from like the
moment you create the feed
it's whatever is available on the feed
which is usually
maybe sometimes a day or two back it
depends on what it is this one goes back
uh a couple of days
so now i can see you know some articles
that are out there
and some of them you're going to see
this others you're going to see oh i
don't have portable apps that sometimes
has some a little more fun stuff to it
but now i can you know take a look at
those articles and add that to my list
particularly if i go to all now i'm
subscribed to a lot of feeds but you see
here
i've got literally
you know i literally probably have a
thousand articles that i could go
through if i wanted to but a lot of this
like for example here i don't care about
say the clippers eliminating the jazz i
can crank through some of this stuff
very quickly as i want to
and
and or focus on specific articles like i
said more coming
as particularly with filtering and
searching
uh as we as we move forward and it is
open to
suggestions and requests so as people
start to use it and they have their own
needs and and benefits to it
then we'll add those in
there's you can use the posting feature
to speed your shares on social sites
currently there's very limited sites
that it works with
facebook just changed their stuff so
there's
it does not work it worked well with
facebook up until about two months ago
they changed their api as they do
and uh currently it's broken and i'm not
sure if i'm going to chase that down or
not
and i'm not sure whether that will
impact trying to go to like an instagram
but there are other sites out there and
so that is you know part of the roadmap
is to periodically add new sites and
expand the ability of what you can
actually post to
uh as i said the bonus adding feeds for
others so you can find feeds that are
out there without having to do searches
you know google searches for rss feeds
and then you can also provide feeds for
others for example i highly recommend
and you know if you have a site if
you've got a blog throw yours out there
others may subscribe to it and get your
readership up
as i mentioned
it's set up
it's set up so that you can email info
at developernoor.com for any bugs or
feature requests
and that'll be you know take those on as
as we can because this will be
definitely a work in progress and being
one of those things that is a scratch
your own itch since something that i use
on a regular basis there will
constantly and there are there are
steady
uh changes and updates to it
that are made available
that being said uh questions and
comments
can this be used as a marketing tool
as a marketing tool no can it be used as
a marketing tool
oh definitely i mean you can definitely
use it to because you can as as you've
seen with this one that's one of the
things that i do
is um like for example
if i go back and look at like i've got
development or
so this site
i've got all of the stuff that's coming
through on developing or and i can
easily say hey i just put this thing out
and that's a lot of my history
is
uh if i go look for developer newer yeah
so there's a
uh
i have to spell it right there we go and
so there's um and the sources are here
so i can see all these little places
where i have posted my articles out to
different places so for example here's a
developer newer article
this one out to my twitter and linkedin
and it's like i said again it's an easy
way to do so so i can schedule that out
to
any of my social places and definitely
from a marketing point of view i can
share not only articles that i've
written and my own content but things
that i find useful that
whatever my platform is you know
followers may likely will find those
useful as well
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you