Syndicate your

blog posts with

little effort!

The bad old days

…and now

How do you find

the time to post

you photos in so

many places?

I don’t!

It is easy

But it requires a

little magic

The Magic of Syndication• “A feed is a machine readable (usually XML) content publication that is updated

regularly. Many weblogs publish a feed (usually RSS, but also possibly Atom and RDF and so on). There are tools out there that call themselves "feedreaders". What they do is they keep checking specified blogs to see if they have been updated, and when the blogs are updated, they display the new post, and a link to it, with an excerpt (or the whole contents) of the post. Each feed contains items that are published over time. When checking a feed, the feedreader is actually looking for new items. New items are automatically discovered and downloaded for you to read. Just so you don't have to visit all the blogs you are interested in. All you have to do with these feedreaders is to add the link to the RSS feed of all the blogs you are interested in. The feedreader will then inform you when any of the blogs have new posts in them. Most blogs have these "Syndication" feeds available for the readers to use. “

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#

Huh?

Syndication - “The bullet points slide”

• Usually Really Simple Syndication – RSS• Made for computers to read - XML view• Not for people to read• Built into WordPress (yay!)• Updates automatically (whenever you post!)

• Applies to posts only, not pages

Try it at home

• Simple add /feed to the address of your blog

• E.g.• http://www.notesfromthecape.com/feed

www.dlvr.it “deliver it”

http://www.notesfromthecape.com/feed

Remember this from

earlier

A little more

advanced

http://www.notesfromthecape.com/category/daily-photo

http://www.notesfromthecape.com/category/daily-photo/feed

Email subscriptions

Free, but

limited

Great stats!

Highly

customizable,

but paid service

• Both send email

• Both use the blog feed

• Both have signup form

Getting really

fancy now

• http://Myblog/feed

• http://Feedblitz/newfeed

You create the

content, and

automate the

syndication

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