The Benefits of Sharing on Google Reader

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The Benefits of Sharing on Google Reader

by frankbradley on July 29th, 2010 | View Comments

Earlier this month fellow Bloggertoner Greg Fry wrote an excellent article called Are You Sharing?. In his post Greg talks about how easy it is to share content these days, and encourages us to do so actively.

In the comments to Greg’s post, I mentioned how I use Google Reader to share content, and also how I benefit myself from content shared by other people. For this blog post I decided to create a short screencast, that represents visually how I use Google Reader for sharing.

Note: It is recommended to expand this video when watching it.

I hope you enjoyed this screencast. Do you share content on Google Reader? Are you watching what other people share on Google Reader? If so let us know your thoughts on how this works for you, in the comments.

The views expressed on this post are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Oracle.

Category: Blogging, communities, Great Business Resources, Modern business, social media

Tags: google reader, how to, sharing, social media, tutorial

The Author: frankbradley

I live in Kilkenny, Ireland, and I'm married with one daughter. I was born in Derry, and came to Kilkenny via Manchester, England, and Dublin. My passion is all things Social Media, and for the last 2 years I have been working as a Social Media Evangelist for Oracle, where I have worked for the last 8 years. This role entails, promoting the use of Social Media internally for improved communication and collaboration. My other interests include sports, especially football (soccer), reading, video games, movies/tv, music and walking. http://frankbradley.tumblr.com/

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http://twitter.com/fredchannel Fred

Nice one Frank. Thanks for sharing!
I’m not really crazy about RSS readers. On paper, sounds like a no-brainer, everybody should use it but I’m not sure if it’s the interface or what that never got me. I liked your video though. Think I’ll give my G-reader another shot
http://www.btbtraining.com/blog Niall Devitt

Frank, thanks for taking us through. great video! Your point about intertested in content that shared more than once is a good one. Cheers, Niall
Anonymous

Love the screencast Frank. Super post thanks for “Sharing”.
http://www.stopthinksocial.com/ David Christopher

Nice video Frank and some useful tips. Shows the true power of “sharing”.
Feel free to share this blog post on http://facebook.com/stopthinksocial.
Anonymous

Thanks for the feedback Fred. I don’t use my RSS Reader as much as I used to, but I still find it invaluable for keeping up with content from sources that I’m already aware of. I do find Twitter much better for finding new content.
Anonymous

Thanks for the comment Niall. This was a useful tip I picked up a few weeks ago. At the moment the number of items shared more than once are few and far between, but I’m increasing the number of people who I follow on Google Reader, so hopefully this feature will become more useful.
Anonymous

No problem Greg. Thanks for the inspiration from your post.
Anonymous

Thanks for the comment David. I’ve shared this post over in StopThinkSocial
http://twitter.com/rbconsulting Richie Bowden

Frank, thanks for the reader overview. Interested to hear how the twitter feed experiment is going. I think it could a handy way to circulate content through a number of channels ?

Richie
http://www.rbconsulting.ie
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

Hi Frederique, thanks for the great feedback and I’m delighted you are finding these useful.
http://www.techwork.dk Thomas

Hi NiallnI think I have missed all 10 links There are some very interesting links there.nThanks for sharing.
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

No problem, Thomas! Glad you found some of them useful. By the way, new round up out today: nhttp://bloggertone.com/global/2011/03/05/10-more-links-you-may-have-missed-but-shouldn%E2%80%99t-4/

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