Do You Read Your Feed?

By on August 11, 2007 in Blogging, RSS Feeds with 9 Comments

Do you subscribe to and read your own feed?  You should.

Where does the image show up? Is it interrupting a sentence? Too big?

Is your feed being delivered with jumbled code? Or 500 words in one paragraph?

Does that video show up in the feed (probably not)? Should you also put that URL in the post?

Subscribing to your own feed is like checking the window display in your store or counter. What does you customer (reader) see? Don’t just subscribe in one manner.  Subscribe (and read) from Bloglines, Google Reader, GreatNews, NetNewsWire…all of ‘em.

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I hear it from a lot of business owners: “Where is the ROI with all this Social Media?“ If this is a question you ask yourself, maybe we should work together a bit more. We can work together solo, or via a professional learning community. Find and increase your ROI. There is a “there” there.

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  • http://InternetSafetyAdvisor.info Internet Safety Queen

    EXCELLENT suggestion! Thank you!

  • http://skelliewag.org Skellie

    I’m currently doing this with Google Reader but I never thought to try it with other services. Mmm… perhaps I should go do that now!

  • http://www.douglaskarr.com Douglas Karr

    This is great advice, Mike. I read my own – it’s one of the things that made me add graphics. I wanted to differentiate my feed from the rest!

  • http://blog.giftideahelp.com/ Elizabeth Anderson

    Interesting idea. I never thought about it. I will put it on a list of things to do. Subscribe to my feed.

  • http://www.conversationagent.com Valeria Maltoni

    Check! It is so good to read yours as well ;-) Back when we did usability testing, we would open up web sites on different machines and screen resolutions and looked at the site using various browsers. This is the new version of that.

  • http://blog.runnerslounge.com Tom Green

    Thanks for keeping us grounded in the fundamentals.

  • http://www.managingleadership.com/blog Jim Stroup

    Mike,
    This is great advice. It’s like calling your own office, or visiting your own store as a customer in order to see what the experience is like from their perspective, rather than just assuming it’s what you expected.
    For some reason, I suppose we don’t think of doing that in the context of our blogs – especially multiple subscriptions in different readers. Great idea!
    By the way, you’ve been tagged!

  • http://highdesertwanderer.com hdw

    Yes, yes I do. I subscribe to both the regular feed, and the feedburner version. They’re supposed to be the same, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to know they’re the same.

  • CCUCEO

    Read Your Feed

    Mike Sansone at ConverStations reminds us, bloggers and podcasters all, to read your feed. According to Mike it’s like checking the window display in your store or counter. Which reminds me I haven’t checked my window in awhile…. Thanks for

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