tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post5734865045123518033..comments2024-03-06T03:58:39.540-06:00Comments on The Viral Garden: Turning your feed reader into a powerful monitoring dashboardMack Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02723628321171539590noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-79421352835871984012009-02-23T09:36:00.000-06:002009-02-23T09:36:00.000-06:00Thanks for the recommendations, Mack. I use Googl...Thanks for the recommendations, Mack. I use Google Reader for my Google Alerts which allows me to avoid the deluge of email for all my alerts.<BR/><BR/>I search Twitter but not as regularly as I should. I'm still getting into the habit of staying on top of this. I agree with @nealwiser, if there are any tools out there that would allow me to congregate my info sources it would be great!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-8789664798606961702009-02-23T08:37:00.000-06:002009-02-23T08:37:00.000-06:00A great -- and useful -- post Mack. I see the val...A great -- and useful -- post Mack. <BR/><BR/>I see the value of insights gleaned from monitoring and I've taken it upon myself to initiate a program of monitoring for my employer. But while they appreciate the effort, it is not considered a top priority. No one is after me to make it work better. That translates into me playing the fast game of pickup -- slapping together ideas as I find them and moving on to other assignments.<BR/><BR/>Further translation -- I don't monitor efficiently. <BR/><BR/>Your post discusses the tools and the real-world uses and is invaluable information for me and, I'm sure, others. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for always being the one who backs up to fill in the blanks for the rest of us!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-66496141924622403542009-02-22T19:38:00.000-06:002009-02-22T19:38:00.000-06:00Matt how you use TweetDeck is a great example of w...Matt how you use TweetDeck is a great example of what I think companies can do as they become more familiar with the tools. Tweetdeck can become its own monitoring system if you use it as you do. Great advice.<BR/><BR/>Heather where is your post on Yahoo Pipes? I have heard some rave about it, but am not sure how to use it.Mack Collierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723628321171539590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-73985814358446870852009-02-22T17:44:00.000-06:002009-02-22T17:44:00.000-06:00I subscribe to Google Alerts and while I agree wit...I subscribe to Google Alerts and while I agree with you, Mack, that the email volumes can be oppressive if not kept on top of, since I use Gmail, the advent of their 'filter' and 'label' functions help divert those daily alert feeds into a special slot so that I can read them at will rather than manually sift through my inbox.<BR/><BR/>I use TweetBeep to keep track of my @heatherrast mentions (right now I'm without TweetDeck b/c my home dino computer can't handle it) and it works okay. But to your point about immediacy, there is indeed a lag so its best not used by corporate brands.<BR/><BR/>Not long ago a friend turned me on to Yahoo! Pipes which seems to have infinite possibilities if I ever tried to apply myself to learn all the ins and outs. What I did succeed at was setting up a feed that goes to my Google Reader account (again, so that I can read at will). The feed focuses only on specific URLs that I enter, for tags or topics that I pre-define. A good approach if you want to filter out all of the nonsensical stuff (like, a Google Alert for 'Heather Rast' usually results in the mention of William Rast jeans instead) and focus only on those sites that you know will bear relevant content.<BR/><BR/>But I like your Bloglines suggestion too, something I haven't tried before. Thanks!<BR/><BR/>PS, so if you do all that monitoring, didja know TVG is on my blogroll? Didja? Didja? :-)@heatherrasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16265870432923666527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-28765683704021177862009-02-22T14:39:00.000-06:002009-02-22T14:39:00.000-06:00Great post, Mack. I started doing this little over...Great post, Mack. I started doing this little over a year ago and it totally changed my life. Now I track data from about 175 sources very quickly. Recently, I've added tools like Google Alerts and Twitter into the mix and the results have been excellent. I only wish there was a tool that could tie all the different services together in a customizable interface (let me know if you know of one).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-35102373365109013672009-02-22T14:36:00.000-06:002009-02-22T14:36:00.000-06:00Hi Mack, i do exactly this with Tweet Deck.I've go...Hi Mack, i do exactly this with Tweet Deck.<BR/><BR/>I've got Twitter feeds for social media, music pr, marketing, watford and kilburn. These are the topics that i want to know most about, and i'm from Watford (so i don't feel so out of the loop) and i live in Kilburn (it's good to know who's around and what they think of the place!).<BR/><BR/>These help me to see what's happening in real time, but i'd never really thought about investing time in doing it for the www until now... bloglines here i come!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com