Sharing Resources With You

A longtime staple of many social media professionals is to share what they read, what they find and the resources they use every day.  I’m not different, and have been sharing this information for the better part of a decade.

Over the years, I’ve used Google Reader (still a staple), Tumblr, Posterous, Read It Later, InstaPaper, BlogLines, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Digg, and many others that I’ve since forgotten (sorry!).  In fact, earlier this year I wrote a similar post pointing out that I had More Resources To Share.

Since then the work involved to share to so many different sources, along with the changing landscape of browser experimentation (my fault for using Firefox and Chrome) with their different sharing plugins takes way too long.  To add to the complexity, I’ve added several dozen feeds to my daily reading list, even after cleaning out many non-essential feeds.

I’ve made it simple. Finally. At least for me it is and I hope it is for you as well.

Google Reader is still my mainstay for sharing – everything that I think may be of interest to others is found here.  By everything, I mean everything – social media, mobile technology, android stuff, apple stuff, microsoft stuff, and many other topics.  If you’re connected to me via Google you’ll see it in your “People You Follow” portion of your own Google Reader.  Otherwise, you can find it here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/rickmahn

Posterous is the main place I’ll take time and post social media related items that I think are very relevant for anyone in the field.  These articles and posts might be on business use, marketing, communications, tools, news and so on.  You can find this fee at: http://rickmahn.posterous.com/

Finally, I do still bookmark some items at Del.icio.us. There’s really no rime or reason to those, but it may be useful, so here it is: http://delicious.com/rickmahn

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Goodbye Pluck – “Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down”

Pluck LogoSo now I hear Pluck is shutting down their RSS Reader(s).  While I gave up Pluck and other client-side news aggregators in early September, I had used Pluck for a long time.

The rich feature set, ability to share my feed list automatically between multiple computers and browsers was its biggest draw.  Also, I really enjoyed the format, where it plugged into your favorite browser as a side-panel where you could scroll through the list of feeds and click away reading easily through each category.

Since I’ve moved to Google Reader, I won’t be moving back to a client-side aggregator.  I’ve got my feeds in one spot that I can access from practically anywhere.  The “River of news” views, either by category or by date, has won be over.  The ability to quickly scan the most recent conversations is a huge productivity boost.

Still I will miss Pluck, and I have to apologize to everyone that I recommended it to as they will now need to move on to another reader.  My latest recommendation on that?  Google Reader of course!

Via Read/Write Web – Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down: Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now

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No Pluck for me

Pluck Logo I’ve stopped using Pluck a few weeks ago, and finally have removed the last vestiges of it from my machines. Did IE7 cause this? Not exactly.

While the RSS/ATOM support in IE7 and Firefox contributed to this, it really is Google Reader that drove home the last nail in the coffin. The simplicity, performance, and accessibility of GReader just can’t be beat for my needs at this time.

So, it is with sadness that I am currently removing Pluck from my last machine before installing the IE7 gold release. I’ve used Pluck for 2 years and will remember it fondly.

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