Comments on: Taming the social media firehose

By: Lilin Mak

Lilin Mak — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:18:00 +0000

Thank you, this is a very useful post, particularly for those of us studying for the new digital marketing qualifications.

PostRank for Google Reader looks very handy. Unfortunately, it is being retired on 1st April. No alternatives in the pipeline. For shame Google!

http://blog.postrank.com/2012/01/the-top-posts-widget-and-google-reader-extension-to-be-retired-on-april-1st/

Any recommendations for third-party alternatives?

By: Dave Chaffey

Dave Chaffey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:41:12 +0000

In reply to Rhodri Lloyd.

Cheers Rhodri, yes it is a shame that the Connect feature has gone. I used to use that a fair bit also and I’m not sure that there’s a good free or even paid replacement.

By: Rhodri Lloyd

Rhodri Lloyd — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:05:32 +0000

Thanks for the mention Dave. I actually found out about the plug in through Quora (http://b.qr.ae/mMkKnP), and since then become invaluable.

Something else should which should be mentioned about PostRank is the now defunct PostRank Connect. This allowed you to search for the most influential authors and blogs in any given topic, e.g. “social media marketing”, “email marketing” based upon their engagement score, which was extremely useful in finding unknown blogs and reading some high quality posts.

However, with this acquisition by Google, this feature appears to have disappeared. Shame really, was very useful. At least the google reader extension still works very well.

By: Dave Chaffey

Dave Chaffey — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:43:52 +0000

Yes, Rene PostRank is really useful for prioritising what to read – let me know how you get on.

Tracey – interesting you’re able to use paper.li effectively by filtering it – got the benefit that you can share it also.

By: Tracey Brown

Tracey Brown — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:36:30 +0000

Completely agree that it’s all a bit overwhelming and like yourself, we’re always trying to find interesting, relevant content to share to followers and subscribers.

I agree on the LinkedIn Today idea – a good aggregation of content that’s likely to be relevant.

I also use paper.li which we have based on the content we’ve chosen on Twitter lists or hashtags or searches, but we’ve filtered it over time so it’s only from trusted sources. So every day when our paper.li comes out, reading that is a good way for me to get a quick consolidated view of the content that’s relevant to me (and other online marketers) today.

By: Rene Power

Rene Power — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:02:51 +0000

Interesting post Dave.

I’m a real advocate of Google Reader and the humble RSS feed, so the PostRank plug-in is a real jewel worth exploring in more detail.