Help me help a group read feeds
May 26, 2006 12:03 PM Subscribe
I have a gig helping someone get up to speed developing marketing capacity for a startup, and one of the first things that we're going to do is make sure good info is coming IN to the company. Please help me figure out the best tools to use!
One of the tactics we're pursuing is to help ensure that the execs have good information coming in regularly from the WWW using RSS/Atom feeds. I want to deliver a quick-and-loose implementation as quickly as possible.
So, what I have come up with is very simple - get everyone to install FeedDemon, import a pre-populated OPML file that includes a) some Technorati tag feeds, b) a Del.icio.us feed that each of the group can bookmark to (this will then become a distribution loop)., and c) a bunch of other RSS feeds that are relevant.
The downside is that with this system, updates or wholesale changes to each person's feed list will be difficult. Down the road I want to install a Scuttle-type system and maybe something like PlanetPlanet behind the firewall to accomplish the same thing in a much more interactive way.
What else can/should I include to do this effectively? Any way I can easily accommodate changes to the shared list coming from any individual participant?
One of the tactics we're pursuing is to help ensure that the execs have good information coming in regularly from the WWW using RSS/Atom feeds. I want to deliver a quick-and-loose implementation as quickly as possible.
So, what I have come up with is very simple - get everyone to install FeedDemon, import a pre-populated OPML file that includes a) some Technorati tag feeds, b) a Del.icio.us feed that each of the group can bookmark to (this will then become a distribution loop)., and c) a bunch of other RSS feeds that are relevant.
The downside is that with this system, updates or wholesale changes to each person's feed list will be difficult. Down the road I want to install a Scuttle-type system and maybe something like PlanetPlanet behind the firewall to accomplish the same thing in a much more interactive way.
What else can/should I include to do this effectively? Any way I can easily accommodate changes to the shared list coming from any individual participant?
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One thing you might look at doing that would be pretty easy is setting up an internal blog with multiple contributors that people can use to share clippings that they find interesting, and subscribe everyone to the feed for that. For example, the blog-this style bookmarklets that most blogging tools have these days make it very easy to blog a link, a comment, and a little excerpt when someone comes across an interesting tidbit on the web.
posted by Good Brain at 1:57 PM on May 26, 2006