What we're reading
Always keeping on top of the latest information is difficult.
Here's some recent articles KPS have found useful on a range of subjects including SEO, Joomla, Photography and more.
How's this list generated?
Patrick Jackson regular reads through over 50 Joomla and technology blogs, managed in Google Reader, viewed in Feedly on the iPad or in Firefox, and the selection bookmarked with Instapaper. I'm then displaying my RSS feed of my Instapaper list in a module that you can see above.
But that's not all... it's sharing via social networking too!
You may have come to my site through my blog posts appearing on my various Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn pages. These articles most of the time have been shared from this site onto those social networks using a site called Twitterfeed. It lets you take an RSS feed and distribute it automatically onto these three networks and a few others.
Mixed into the blog post now is also what I'm reading, taken from the Instapaper RSS feed. Helps to share the knowledge plus doesn't hurt my professional social networking statuses (less so all the friends it annoys when geek speek is flowing through their facebook walls - just unsubscribe from my feed!)
So here's how to go about sharing your Joomla blog on Twitter Feed
- Copy your RSS feed URL:
- In many browsers, you'll find an RSS feed icon in the address bar - clicking on it will give you some options and you can then see and copy the URL for your RSS feed.
- In Joomla, there's a RSS Syndication module that you can turn on that will create an icon that will give the RSS feed URL for that page when clicked.
- I have only turned my icon on recently, after finding that when viewing the site on Safari on the iPad, you can't get the RSS URL without the link being accessible on the page.
- There's a range of other RSS tools out there such as Feedburner, but the above is the basics.
- Create a Twitterfeed account
- Once logged in, click Create New Feed
- Name your feed, paste your RSS URL, and continue to step 2 - or change some things in the Advanced settings like the frequency the RSS feed is looked at, whether to include images on facebook posts, and whether to add prefix/suffix/hashtags to tweets.
- In step 2, connect your feed to your various social networks.
- Finally, click on All done, and your feed will start tweeting away for you!