If you track your RSS subscriber figures as closely as I do, you’ll know that the number of people downloading your RSS feed tends to drop markedly at the weekend. Yesterday mine went up though, and a change at Google is behind this.

Tags: Blogging, fedafi, feedburner, google, google+reader, RSS, RSS+analysis, RSS+subscribers, Social media, statistics, Statistics, research and analysis
Categories: Blogging, RSS, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

Do RSS subscriber figures always go up?

Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

Tracking RSS subscribers is a way to see how many people are tracking your blog. It’s a great motivation to see RSS subscriber growth and be able to celebrate milestones. But do RSS subscriber figures always go up anyway?

Tags: feedburner, neville+hobson, RSS, RSS+analysis, RSS+subscribers
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

Dealing with feed overload - the answer?

Sunday, February 4th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Late last year I blogged about how my RSS reading list had reached 100 feeds and was becoming impractical to keep up with. Now I think I’ve found a solution.

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Categories: Marketing, Public relations, RSS, Social media

Measuring blog engagement - the Fedafi approach

Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

Gary Reid from Fedafi has some interesting thoughts on a model for measuring engagement in blogging, plus a Wordpress plug-in that is going to help deliver the metrics that make up the model.

Tags: Blogging, fedafi, Public relations, RSS, RSS+analysis, RSS+marketing, RSS+subscribers, Social media, Software, Statistics, research and analysis, Wordpress, wordpress+2.1
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Software, Statistics, research and analysis, Wordpress

Why doesn’t the BBC offer full RSS feeds?

Monday, January 22nd, 2007 at 6:15 am

There’s much discussion about the merits of publishing full or partial RSS feeds on your website. But I really don’t understand why the BBC doesn’t offer full feeds for their great range of news content.

Tags: bbc, duncan+barnes, full+feeds, ian+delaney, partial+feeds, RSS
Categories: RSS

MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom for 2007

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

My feedreader is awash with predictions, tips and hints for surviving 2007 in the world of marketing and public relations. The MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom 2007 is one of the best I’ve seen.

Tags: Marketing, marketingsherpa, public+relations
Categories: Blogging, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, RSS, Social media

RSS and predictions for 2007

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

One of the best set of predictions for 2007 I’ve seen is over at Read/Write Web. They highlight that the growth of RSS will be one of the big stories next year.

Tags: edelman, hosted+conversations, newsgator, RSS
Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Public relations, RSS, Social media

Dealing with feed overload - update

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 10:03 pm

Earlier in the week I blogged about how I could deal with my ever-increasing RSS feeds.

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Categories: RSS

Dealing with feed overload

Monday, December 4th, 2006 at 2:04 pm

Over the weekend my RSS feed count hit an all time high. The problem is that these feeds generate a very large number of items for me to read, and I simply can’t keep up.

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Categories: Marketing, Public relations, RSS, Social media

CIPR - social media consultation

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has just published its consultation document on social media.

Tags: Blogging, chartered+institute+of+public+relations, CIPR, code+of+conduct, Podcasting, PR, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media

When is a podcast not a podcast?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 9:45 am

This is one of the most misleadingly named services I’ve seen in quite a while: Readspeaker Podcaster.

Tags: podcast, Podcasting, readspeaker, readspeaker+podcaster, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS

Delivering the New PR - London

Saturday, November 11th, 2006 at 12:10 am

Just arrived back from Delivering the New PR in London today - an excellent conference on using social media tools in public relations.

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Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Personal development, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media

Email marketing vs RSS marketing

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

After a good week or so completely offline I’m now back to find more than 800 emails in my inbox, and that’s after the junk filter has done its best. I also have more than 1,500 unread entries in my RSS reader.

Tags: digital+marketing, email+marketing, Marketing, RSS, RSS+marketing
Categories: Email marketing, General, Marketing, RSS

Branding in social media

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

Brand is one of the most mis-used words in marketing. I’ve been thinking about what affects brand perception in social media.

Tags: Blogging, brand, brand+perception, Branding, RSS, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Branding, RSS, Social media

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Category archive: RSS

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Social media as a recruitment tool

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Marketing with interactive media

Reaching an RSS milestone

Getting to know you better

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Google hits your RSS subscriber statistics