Using a feed reader is almost a sure bet that you will find in any marketers toolbox.

There are of course a multitude of choices of which one you chose to use but it is hard to beat the Google Reader.Not only for the fact that it is easy to use and that google has of late been adding some really cool features and functions, but being able to integate it with a bunch of googles other services and programs in my book puts it at the top of the list for reading rss feeds.

That being said though, I have been using a Firefox add-0n (and yes it works with Flock also) that has put using google reader over the top.Its like have google reader on steroids.

The add-on is called Feedly and if you have not heard of it and you use google reader you really should check it out.

Feedly is an add-0n that intrgrates with google reader that not only allows you to manage and read your feeds in various ways, but also give you the ability to share content on twitter and friendfeed,

find new content relevent to your various feeds and also see the conversations already going on in a number of ways.

Heres a video I put together that shows  just a fraction of the coolness Feedly brings to your google reader

Feedly Add-on Video

You can also download it here Feedly Video

Do you use any other add-ons for google reader or do you prefer a different RSS reader?

Leave a comment and let us know

Well its that time again to tune up the computer, clutter your work space, and get ready for the 4th annual Thirty Day Challenge. This I would say is by far, one of the biggest free online training courses available for not only the beginner (newbie as we say) but also the more advanced marketer. You can’t help but learn some of the newest technics working today.

Scheduled to start August 1st 2008, the preseason warm up kicks off early this year mostly impart to saying goodby to an old friend. Yes it will be sad, but our trusty browser Firefox will be sitting on the sidelines this year.

Pre-Season starts June 1 2008 (Live from a new format)
Thirty Day Challenge TV

Hello to a new browser

This years 30 Day Challenge browser of choice will be Flock “the social web browser”.

I’ve been giving the flock browser a spin for about a week or so now and although I do see that allowing one to socialize and keep up to date with whats going down around the net, I’ll have to give it a little more trial time in the “work” department, mostly for the fact that the addons are not as numerous as for Firefox.

Also there is of course some new platforms to be added the the training, one of those being FriendFeed.
This is a great site to follow what your friends are doing around the web and share with them what you are up to at the sites you socialize.

So sharpen the pencils, go get acquainted with Flock, and take a click on over to friendFeed, joinup, and say Hi.
And be sure to be at the pre-season kickoff at the Thirty Day Challenge TV show June 1 2008 at 8pm EST

Are you using Flock yet? What do you think of it? Let me know your pros and cons.

If you had a chance to check out Swypefile than you probably found some pretty good information, if not than you may have saved yourself the bother.

What started out as a resource for marketers, to share Swypefiles (swipefiles) of ideas and information with the incentive of having your posts monetized by way of adsence sharing,
I suspect started getting out of hand.

As a result here is the greeting you’ll get if you go to the site:

“Unfortunately, swypefile has been shut down for the time being. Things weren’t going as planned, and we are re-thinking the swypefile concept. Thanks to everyone who supported what we were trying to do!”

Sadly what was possibly a good idea, but I suspect started becoming a spammers playground needs a little more planning