Organizing+Your+Social+Media+Feeds

__Your Task__
Read the instructions below for setting up a Google Reader page and an iGoogle Page. Create both pages and add the details as described below.

Here are a few tools that will assist you in organizing your social media feeds.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
What is an RSS feed? Why you should add on to your blog How do you add one to your blog

Google Reader
To organize the blog posts that you will read it's good to have them listed in one place Google Reader is effective tool for this.

1. How to start with Google Reader
This is a video to assist you in getting started with Google Reader. Here are written instructions for helping you get started with Google Reader.

2. How organize your feeds into folders
Here is a [|video]describing how to create and organize folders. Here are written instructions for organizing feeds.

Instructions
1. Find feeds to all the blogs of your EDCI 336 classmates 2. Put them in a folder and labeled for easy identification.

iGoogle and Netvibes
These are two of the most common tools that allow you to create a webpages that illustrate all of the most common sites and feeds in one place. For the purposes of this class we will focus on setting up an iGoogle page. If you wish, you are welcome to set up a Netvibes page.

1. How to set up an iGoogle site.
This is a video for instructions in setting up an iGoogle Site Here are the written instructions for setting up an iGoogle Site

Instructions
After accessing googl.com/ig and logging in complete the following.

1. Add a tab on your iGoogle page and entitle it EDCI 336 2. Add two gadgets to your new EDCI 336 page
 * Google Reader Gadget
 * Twitter Gadget