Some General Reflections on Social and Professional Networking in 2009
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
by Jean Purcell
OpineBooks.com
At the beginning of 2009, I decided to focus more on the Internet for article-writing and sharing information. To SearchWarp.com where I was already writing and where I feel most at home, I took up an idea from another SW writer, Joel Hendon, and applied to write for Examiner.com, the Baltimore edition. I wanted to share learnings later in my free newsletter, and have done some of that. Also, a few subscribers there began to send ideas and one kept in touch sharing social networking resources with me.
Twitter is a sharing network easy to use, along with LinkedIn. An internet contact, Pat Corn, went back several years, when I was starting to work on a publishing web page, about 2000. Pat later was the one to invite me to join LinkedIn in 2007/2008, and I did. But I did not grasp how LinkedIn might be helpful until later. For professional networking, you might want to check it out if not already using it.
If you have not yet used the "Tweet This" and other similar ways to connect and share postings or articles, I think you might like to give this feature a try. You can tweet not only others' articles, but your own as well. I delete the "I just read this" claim that goes with Twitter tinyurl feeds (links?) and substitute either "I just posted this" or just leave the link without intro.
How to use RSS feeds remains a mystery to me. They are not the same as the Twitter "Tweet this" feature, yet somehow I think maybe they produce similar results. That may be way off the mark, however. I'd love to know more.
Re: RSS feeds, do I need to go into (manage) my website in order to post HTML or other language? If not, how does it work? I've read lots online about this, and yet it still does not make sense to me (which would not surprise the guy who manages our computers' health!).
I invite someone to write an article with the step-by-step How To aspects of using RSS feeds or refer me to a really good free source of info for this online. Like many of us who do not grasp the technical lingo in this department, I need non-technical computer language and guidance. A step or two above "Go to the little empty text box beside the word 'Google' and type this link there."!
If anyone writes a How To article about using RSS feeds, including exactly how to set them up and where, I would like to know. If I can follow it, I'd like to Tweet the article to as many places as possible and would like to quote from it for my free newsletter for writers. I think they'd like to know too!
If you want to info me about a good article on RSS you might know about or write, comment below or contact me through SW mail. Thanks!
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)You know, Jean, there was a time I could explain RSS, but where is that knowledge now? Because of your article I may actually re-learn the thing. Thanks. ~mogama~Hi, friend, please refresh your mind on this and explain it? BTW, my computer is still broken. An electrical part is being ordered. Should be back with my documents and files on Monday...let's hope so.
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