Presentation by Euforic Services (Pier Andrea Pirani, Pete Cranston and Vanessa Meadu) at the FAO Social Media Workshop - July 2012

1. Personalized web listening
dashboards
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2. Definition
Really Simple Syndication
 A publishing format
that lets you to
subscribe to and
receive latest
updates from your
favourite blogs and
sites all from within
a single newsreader
program

3. Definition
Ready for some stories!

4. Key functions it supports
 Managing your information flow, to keep
track of latest updates from your
favourites sources
 Working more efficiently by subscribing to
feeds and see what’s new from multiple
sources, in one single interface
 Monitoring what the media is saying about
your project/programme/organization

5. Example: Monitoring the media
 You can subscribe to keywords searched
in Google News
 New stories will come up in Google
Reader

6. How to use it
 Create an account
– Google Reader or Netvibes
 Subscribe to feeds
– Two clicks; by url
 Organize your content
– Using tags and folders; in tabs

7. Three clicks subscription

8. ‘Polite’ feeds…

9. …Clean list in your Reader

10. When feeds are not polite…
Copy feed URL…

11. Add feed in your reader

12. Creating public pages - Netvibes

13. Add content by url

14. Hands on exercise
 Go to http://www.google.com/ig
– Log in with your own username and
password;
Or
 Create an account at http://netvibes.com
 Find 3/5 sites or blogs that you use daily
– If RSS is available, subscribe to it
 Add one or two gadgets

15. Personalized web listening
dashboards
FAO Social Media Workshop