Thursday, October 30, 2008

Managing Multiple Memberships

With many people now joining multiple social networks the problem becomes how to manage them all. I had started using netvibes for that, and then came across this excellent guide written by Steve Hargadon (of Education.ning.com and classroom20 ning fame). He describes using pageflakes to collect the forum posts, video and photo additions etc onto a separate page for each ning ocmmunity he is a member of. I used his method succesfully with Netvibes (though had a rpoblem witht he blogs feed), with the modification of having three sites to a page, with each site in a column).
Follow this link for Steve's guide at his blog.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree with you -- managing multiple memberships can be really time consuming and RSS does make it easier.

However I would think that Google Reader might be the better option if you are trying just to manage your own subscriptions. That way you can sort out your subscriptions into folders. For example all my Ning memberships are in one folder - called forum - where I subscribe to their latest activity and forum RSS feed. Then I separate my blog subscriptions into separate folders.

I have a few posts on Google Reader if you want any information on how I use it.