To put the Twitter feed in the right navigation of this blog in place I needed to create an aggregated RSS feed. There’s a million ways of doing this, but I wanted the easiest/quickest/best and my Google searches hadn’t offered an obvious answer… so I asked on Twitter. @GuavaMarkeD helped me out, and now here’s a guide for you to find, Interwebs:
1) Subscribe to one of the RSS feeds you want to add to your composite RSS feed in Google Reader
2) Create a new folder category for it
3) Repeat with all other relevant RSS feeds, filing them in that folder
4) Click on ‘settings’ in Google Reader
5) Click on the ‘private’ setting to make it ‘public’, at which point you’ll be given a link to a web page with the content, including an RSS subscription button
Handy for all sorts of things (e.g. wanting to track all social mentions or a person/client/thing/news event in a consolidated feed), and easy when you know how. I’ve posted it here under the headline of my search term as am sure other people will want to know how…
If you want thoughts on other ways to use Twitter, btw, Lifehacker has six suggestions…
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