ed 5 Reasons Your Social Media is Not Working By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:28:30 -0400 Common sense pretty much tells us most of what we need to know to get our fans and followers engaged with our social media content. complete article Full Article
ed Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Web Traffic By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:00:17 -0400 We all know that the content writers are bringing their juice into social media nowadays, as people see Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms as ridiculously fresh, upbeat, and contemporary. Both are competing to be the best in content delivery, making these social networking sites an area for socialization and easier product exchange, a social slash business hub perfect for the growing online market. Amongst the hustle brought about by too many content delivered in these sites, it is likely that the simple RSS is already forgotten, disabled and dead. But this is a wrong notion. As the RSS feeds are still coming on stronger than ever, and is still treated as one of the supreme in hot‐wiring the many thoughts of the general population brought together. complete article Full Article
ed Backup RSS Feed to Google Spreadsheet By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Backup your RSS feed to a Google spreadsheet using an IFTTT recipe Full Article
ed 5 ways News Brands can take advantage of Linkedin By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:00:11 -0400 LinkedIn may have started out as a simple way to build professional connections and share contact details, but more users are looking to share articles that interest them, the Digital Media Europe conference heard today. Isabelle Roughol, France editor for LinkedIn, told delegates that, compared to five years ago, there are five times as many people coming to the site for content than for jobs searches. complete article Full Article
ed Podcast RSS Feed Survey Results By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Checkout the Podcast RSS Feed Survey Results complete article Full Article
ed Increase Sales on Ebay with RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:00:00 -0400 As eBay sellers continue to try to crack the code of Cassini, one suggestion coming from the eBay team is to refresh RSS feeds. If you are not familiar, an RSS feed is a technology where a web feed is used to distribute information, or to distribute content to a large number of people at one time. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. eBay sends an RSS feed to Google. Sellers do not have to do anything to make this happen - eBay automatically sends information about each listing to Google using RSS feeds. complete article Full Article
ed Social Media Audit By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:00:00 -0400 One way to jump-start a content strategy that not only engages but motivates your audience is to conduct a social media audit. An audit also can be useful as you analyze your competitors social media efforts and get a handle on any unauthorized activity taking place on rogue accounts bearing your name and or likeness. complete article Full Article
ed Teens, Social Media and the School System: Misunderstood or Toxic Relationship? By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:00:13 -0400 The education system has its flaws. You do not have to be a researcher to know that. Am I biased? Of course I am, but so is everyone else who has ever been to school. The education we have in this country is incredible compared to some countries that do not. I am not disregarding them; I have the perspective of a student who has had the luxury of going to school my entire life and a pretty good one at that. Schools all over the world have flaws. Some are small but some are quite substantial. complete article Full Article
ed Social Media and the Law By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Now that folks are posting and tweeting and retweeting - complaints and grievances around the clock, is every negative experience a possible class action? If someone has a bad experience with a bank or someone gets food poisoning at a restaurant or someone has a problem with a prescribed medicine, he can immediately find others with similar outrages. Are social media making it easier for plaintiffs to band together? complete article Full Article
ed How to: Convert FaceBook posts into an RSS feed By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 5 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Take any Facebook Fan Page and pull their content into an RSS reader. complete article Full Article
ed Two Easy Tips To Manage Your Unread RSS Feeds Better By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:00:08 -0400 You may have RSS feeds accumulating dust over time, but that unfortunately does not mean the number of unread items will kindly reduce for you. complete article Full Article
ed Google Plus RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 7 May 2014 06:26:39 -0400 It is fortunately dead easy to create an RSS feed for a Google Plus profile. All you need is the users Google profile ID and the url that you have to add it to to create the feed. complete article Full Article
ed Torrent Enable RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 9 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 RSS feeds are a great tool for keeping up to date with the latest information across the web, whether that be plain news updates or other fresh content. Now a new website allows users to transform any RSS feed into a torrent-enabled RSS feed which can be imported into a torrent client for automated downloads of a limitless array of content. complete article Full Article
ed Ping.It Brings Context to RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Sat, 10 May 2014 09:58:08 -0400 In May last year, we brought you news on Ping.it, a Web-based RSS reader that lets you create tailored feeds by keywords and popularity. At its most basic complete article Full Article
ed Pull RSS Feeds Into Buffer’s Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Buffer, the social media scheduling and analytics tool, is introducing a useful new feature today the ability to pull RSS feeds into its dashboard. It will allow users of Buffers paid product to have an automatically populated queue of content to share on their connected social media accounts. It other words, it could be a godsend for people juggling multiple social channels. complete article Full Article
ed YouTube Kills Off RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 it looks like Googles anti-RSS policy is trickling down to YouTube subscriptions. The newly-implemented YouTube Data API v3 now throws out a 403 Forbidden error on trying to add the publicly accessible feed of new subscriptions from any YouTube account. complete article Full Article
ed Can RSS Feeds Help SEO By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Any owner of a website that is marketing or promoting a product or a service is concerned about the amount of traffic it generates. Not only is the concern about traffic, but the quality of the traffic is really the key. If your website does not rank well in the search engines, it can limit the amount of sales that you make, so anything to improve the ranking is welcome. One way to achieve a higher visibility is to improve the quality and the amount of relevant content whenever possible. One way to do this is to use RSS feeds. complete article Full Article
ed Buffer Introduces RSS Feeds And Handpicked Content Suggestions For Its Paid Plans By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 28 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Buffer is about sharing content, and now also a little about content curation. The social scheduling and sharing application announced two new features that could save you the trouble of searching for content to share. Buffer feeds has just been introduced for users on the Awesome and Business plans. Users on the free Individual plan can try out Feeds by signing up for a trial of Buffer for Business. Users on both these paid plans can connect their preferred feeds from websites to their social accounts on Buffer and create a continuous stream of content ready to be share complete article Full Article
ed What To Say When You Do Not Like Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Interesting: I do not use social media. Some of my friends keep asking me to join social media and interact with them that way. I tell them I consider social media to be a waste of time and that I have more important things to do. Yet they continue bugging me to join social media. What can I tell them to convince them it is better for me not to be on social media? complete article Full Article
ed Google Looks to Shed 'Geek' Glass with Designer Chic By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 09:00:55 -0400 Google Glass Makeover - The company noted that the new Google Glass designs build on the Titanium Collection released this past January. The designer collection will include five new frames and eight new shades. complete article Full Article
ed Link RSS feeds to email with Blogtrottr By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0400 RSS feeds are fine if you can find a good feed reader and the time to grind through the results, but lets face it - email is the center of most peoples universes. So why not converge RSS and email? complete article Full Article
ed Evernote and Feed.ly Servers were Hit by DDoS Attacks as Criminals Tried to Extort Money By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Earlier this week, popular notetaking app Evernote, and RSS feed service Feed.ly were taken down by multi-hour DDoS attacks. Evernote managed to stay active with major lag and issues while Feedly was rendered unavailable. complete article Full Article
ed Feedly RSS Reader Taken Down By Attackers By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Internet consumers used to getting their news from the popular RSS reader Feedly were left in the dark Wednesday morning after the service was taken down in what was described as a denial of service attack that included an attempt to extort money from the company, according to the website Verge. complete article Full Article
ed RSS Feeds to Burn By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:05 -0400 Post Alerts are perhaps the most valuable reason to have an RSS Feeds. If your blog has a mailing list that gets alerted every time you post, you can thank RSS Feeds for pushing it their way. complete article Full Article
ed Top RSS Feeds for Medical News By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 There is no harm in arming yourself with information when you need to talk to a doctor. A better informed patient (or a patient’s guardian) makes for a wiser decision maker. We are living on the cutting edge of great medical leaps. Medical news and alerts help us to keep pace with these leaps. Let’s look at some top websites for RSS medical news feeds and stay alert with the help of their feeds. complete article Full Article
ed Pinterest RSS Feed Widget By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Collection of WordPress Plugins for Pinterest - complete article Full Article
ed How to Add an RSS Feed in Outlook By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 How to Add an RSS Feed in Outlook complete article Full Article
ed Proven High Quality RSS Feed Aggregators By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 RSS feed aggregators require precision, user-friendliness, and overall quality to win the hearts of those who live by them. These RSS feed aggregators can be difficult to come by, but there are a few out there that have withstood the test of time. With the departure of Google Reader, it has become important to see who has survived and who was flushed away with this move as collateral damage. complete article Full Article
ed RSS Podcasting Explained By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:16:18 -0400 Many people don’t know the difference between broadcasting or streaming and podcasting. The difference is that broadcasting appears at the set location and at the set moment. So the broadcaster has all the control. If you want to listen to it, you have to be in front of your computer at the exact time. complete article Full Article
ed Social Media Risks By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Within corporates, social media is no longer simply the domain of the marketing department. And directors on big boards are putting their management teams through the hoops, demanding to know their strategic response to the phenomenon that has changed the world. complete article Full Article
ed Ecommerce Coming to Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 For Twitter and Facebook, the two principal combatants in the world of social media, e-commerce is emerging as the newest battleground. Twitter announced in a blog post on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire CardSpring, a mobile payments infrastructure company that allows merchants to offer deals to consumers that can be loaded onto to their credit cards. When the card is used to pay at the store, the coupon is automatically applied. complete article Full Article
ed Social Media Feeds into Munchausen by Proxy By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Experts say the case of a mother accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son to death with salt appears be an example of how social media feeds into Munchausen by proxy, a disorder in which caretakers purposely harm children and then bask in the attention and sympathy. complete article Full Article
ed How to Sync RSS feeds to a Kindle By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:00:00 -0400 The Kindle Paperwhite is my go-to device for reading as I simply love the display. In contrast to my tablet or phone, I can use the device outdoors in direct sun-light without any issues which is a huge plus. complete article Full Article
ed How To Turn An RSS Feed Into A Newsletter PDF By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Did you know that you can rapidly and easily turn any RSS feed into a super cool newspaper style newsletter PDF? complete article Full Article
ed RSSFeedList By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:00:00 -0400 RSSFeedList is an RSS news aggregator Full Article
ed How to Use RSS Feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:00:00 -0400 RSS may be antiquated to some because of the early days of online when RSS readers aggregated content from multiple sources and compiled them into one stream of news and headlines under an RSS reader. It made life easier for people because they did not have to go to dozens of slow Web sites to get their content. Instead, it all flowed to them. As Web and social media sites became more sophisticated and access speeds became faster, the RSS readers faded away. But the ability of sites to distribute their content to other sites and also collect content from other sites is still viable even today. complete article Full Article
ed Do CEOs Use Social Media? By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Some pretty high-profile CEOs have jumped on the social media train, but most are only occasional users of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or other tools. The pace of adoption is picking up, however, and those CEOs that do have social media accounts are using them more. complete article Full Article
ed 25 Ways to Grow Your Social Media Presence By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:11:27 -0400 Having a good, or great, social media presence can help your business grow like wildflowers. But, this will only happen after you develop a large following and learn how to give them what they really want. Here are some great ways any business owner or marketer can increase their social media presence and help their business grow. 1. Identify Goals and Objectives The first step in growing your social media presence is to identify your goals and objectives. This means make sure you know what you are going after – before you start posting. Ensure you know how each platform works, what audiences you can reach where, and what your objectives are and you will be off to a great start. complete article Full Article
ed 3 Ways to Get Business Recognition on Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:00:00 -0400 In our increasingly competitive world -- one in which we clamor for the right kind of attention for our companies -- the pursuit of likes can become an obsession. While experts work to define the return on investment, or ROI, of social-media attention and quantify the financial value of social media-fans and followers, entrepreneurs have an innate sense that there is power in gathering a following of likes for our brands. If being liked is an important goal, and if we measure our likeability by what our social-media fans are saying, how can we effectively gather that evidence of our likeability? complete article Full Article
ed 7 Social Media Security Tips To Protect Your Business By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Many small businesses recognize the benefits of having a social media presence for customer service and long-term marketing purposes. However, many are slow to recognize social medias security issues and how employees own social presence can add to the companys security issues. Some companies restrict internal access. Others may prevent employees from having any corporate association outside of work on their own social platforms. This is due to the fact that whatever an employee says outside of work publicly can have a significant impact on the organization. complete article Full Article
ed 8 Tools Every Marketer Needs in 2015 By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500 In the nature of making your 2015 as successful as possible, I want to share a few of my favorite marketing tools that I use on a daily basis. They make my make life easier, decisions more data driven, and my content more creative. We all have our own marketing toolbox, here is a look into mine. Here are my top 8 tools that are going to make your life as a marketer easier in 2015. complete article Full Article
ed Why You Should Automate Menial Social Media Activity by Using IFTTT By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500 The marketing world is on an absolute tear automating menial, mundane, yet necessary tasks. complete article Full Article
ed How to Create an RSS Feed for Your Etsy Shop to Boost Sales Across Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500 Looking to give your Etsy Shop a boost? Want a fast and easy way to showcase your products to your Twitter and Facebook audience? Promoting your Etsy items across social media is simple. complete article Full Article
ed 5 Top Social Media Campaigns of 2014 By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 09:09:00 -0500 When was the last time a social media campaign made you really feel something, whether it was happiness, hope or fear? Below are five of the most successful social media campaigns of 2014, each of which was able to tap into genuine emotion to make a lasting impact on consumers. complete article Full Article
ed Unlocking The Mystery Of Social Media ROI By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500 We are addressing the subject on most peoples minds when it comes social media marketing – what is the ROI of social media? It’s a completely valid question and one that no one should shy away from! Companies part with hundreds of thousands of pounds on billboard advertising over a motorway and have virtually no idea of the ROI, even if the billboard company says 60,000 drivers pass under it every day. complete article Full Article
ed To Be Blunt, a Lot of Your Social-Media Marketing is Getting You Nowhere By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500 Recently, Copyblogger made a shocking announcement: they were killing their Facebook page, even though they had 38,000 fans. Interestingly, this follows their decision earlier this year to close comments on their blog as well. complete article Full Article
ed 6 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your RSS Feed By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:00:00 -0500 Feed Tips for the Blogging Community: Make it easy to subscribe to your feed. Have an RSS logo near the top of your blog (you’ve seen them – the little orange and white squares? complete article Full Article
ed How to Truncate RSS Feeds in WordPress By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:00:00 -0500 Always willing to help out a fellow blogger, I gladly pass along the information. But then gee golly one morning bells and whistles went off! Why don’t I create a tutorial showing others how to truncate their posts? complete article Full Article
ed Pinterest RSS Feed By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:00:00 -0500 This is how Iaccess my own infographics pinboard: complete article Full Article
ed How to Setup an RSS Feed in MailChimp By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:00:00 -0500 Every blog has an RSS feed but with Mailchimp you take your average RSS feed up a notch. By using a newsletter service like Mailchimp you can take your standard feed and turn it into an email campaign. This might sound confusing but Mailchimp helps make this process easy and this post will walk you through the process step by step. complete article Full Article