1. What are content feeds? Web feeds or news feeds that frequently update with up to date information.
b. What are 2 kinds? Web feeds and News feeds.
c. Why are feeds a good thing for creators, subscribers, & advertisers? Feeds make it easier for creators to keep track of their content and they are good for subscribers because the subscribers do not have to give their email and potentially get spammed to get updates, they also do not have to "unsubscribe" but simply remove their feed from their aggregator. Feeds are also automatically sorted so that each feed URL has its own set of entries. It is great for advertisers because it makes it easier for other web sites to link to their content and its also updated so frequently.
d. Name 3 sites you can subscribe by content feeds (give address) http://babysteals.stealnetwork.com/, http://www.cnn.com/, http://www.msn.com/
e. How do you read feeds? You have to download an RSS reader.
f. Name 3 popular feed readers. Google Reader, newscrawler, Feeddemon
g. Find one interesting article on using Feeds. Give a brief description of it and the title. Give the online address. Tell us something interesting you learned from the article. Since I had no idea about feeds I used Google to help me find information on them. I found several articles on them but this one from Google was the best. http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=59255&hl=en Its titled "Available Google News Feeds" and gives the links to the news feeds google offers and also explains what what the feeds are and how you use them. It was very helpful.
2. What are other ways to subscribe to a blog. (Look at major sites or other popular blogs for subscription options.) By email, or by "following" if you have your own blog.
3. Find three blogs or websites related to your blog topic you find worthwhile and that can help you with your own blog posting.
Subscribe to each of them using one of the subscription options.
4. Create a CONTACT Form for your Weebly site, dragging the Contact Form icon to your site page and linking it to an email account you use. I will test your form and you will need to check your messages and reply to me.
5. Join Flickr, post an image/s and post a Flickr badge to your blog.
http://www.flickr.com
6. Join Twitter, send a tweet and post a Twitter Badge on your blog.
http://www.twitter.com.
7. Join Linked In, post a bio and a photo. Do a search of groups related to an interest of yours. Send a request to join a group.
Post a LInkedIn Button on your blog.
8. Drag the Feed icon under Blog Sidebar to your site. Publish it.
Go to Feedburner at http://www.feedburner.com. Who owns it? It seems that Google now own it.
Sign up. Then click on your published RSS feed button, paste in your weebly feed address that shows up in the browser window in the BURN A FEED RIGHT THIS INSTANT field on Feedburner’s page. It will look like this :
feed://yoursitename.weebly.com/…./feed
Now confirm your feed’s validity.
Log into your GMAIL account. Click on MORE at top menu. Select READER. Click on ADD A SUBSCRIPTION. Paste in your Weebly Feed address (found in browser window when you click on the RSS feed icon on your PUBLISHED Weebly blog page). A copy of your blog posts should now be showing on your Gmail page.
b. What are 2 kinds? Web feeds and News feeds.
c. Why are feeds a good thing for creators, subscribers, & advertisers? Feeds make it easier for creators to keep track of their content and they are good for subscribers because the subscribers do not have to give their email and potentially get spammed to get updates, they also do not have to "unsubscribe" but simply remove their feed from their aggregator. Feeds are also automatically sorted so that each feed URL has its own set of entries. It is great for advertisers because it makes it easier for other web sites to link to their content and its also updated so frequently.
d. Name 3 sites you can subscribe by content feeds (give address) http://babysteals.stealnetwork.com/, http://www.cnn.com/, http://www.msn.com/
e. How do you read feeds? You have to download an RSS reader.
f. Name 3 popular feed readers. Google Reader, newscrawler, Feeddemon
g. Find one interesting article on using Feeds. Give a brief description of it and the title. Give the online address. Tell us something interesting you learned from the article. Since I had no idea about feeds I used Google to help me find information on them. I found several articles on them but this one from Google was the best. http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=59255&hl=en Its titled "Available Google News Feeds" and gives the links to the news feeds google offers and also explains what what the feeds are and how you use them. It was very helpful.
2. What are other ways to subscribe to a blog. (Look at major sites or other popular blogs for subscription options.) By email, or by "following" if you have your own blog.
3. Find three blogs or websites related to your blog topic you find worthwhile and that can help you with your own blog posting.
Subscribe to each of them using one of the subscription options.
4. Create a CONTACT Form for your Weebly site, dragging the Contact Form icon to your site page and linking it to an email account you use. I will test your form and you will need to check your messages and reply to me.
5. Join Flickr, post an image/s and post a Flickr badge to your blog.
http://www.flickr.com
6. Join Twitter, send a tweet and post a Twitter Badge on your blog.
http://www.twitter.com.
7. Join Linked In, post a bio and a photo. Do a search of groups related to an interest of yours. Send a request to join a group.
Post a LInkedIn Button on your blog.
8. Drag the Feed icon under Blog Sidebar to your site. Publish it.
Go to Feedburner at http://www.feedburner.com. Who owns it? It seems that Google now own it.
Sign up. Then click on your published RSS feed button, paste in your weebly feed address that shows up in the browser window in the BURN A FEED RIGHT THIS INSTANT field on Feedburner’s page. It will look like this :
feed://yoursitename.weebly.com/…./feed
Now confirm your feed’s validity.
Log into your GMAIL account. Click on MORE at top menu. Select READER. Click on ADD A SUBSCRIPTION. Paste in your Weebly Feed address (found in browser window when you click on the RSS feed icon on your PUBLISHED Weebly blog page). A copy of your blog posts should now be showing on your Gmail page.