make your own vanity or ego feed stalk yourself or how to really
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Make your own Vanity or Ego feed
stalk yourselfOr how to really
What is an Ego or Vanity feed?
According to AllExperts – “a certain kind of web feed created by a search engine -- one showing all search results that match the subscriber's name, blog name, product name, etc. A feed of search results for links to the subscriber's URL would also be considered a vanity feed.”
A Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed from sources around the web with a certain keyword or words.
What is it good for?
Engage in Conversation
Build Relationships
Track Success of output (posts, twitter etc)
Correcting Errors and Damage Control
Generally see what people are saying about us
Ok, backup what is RSS
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format
Is it easy?
As with all things it can be as easy or as hard as you want
You need an RSS reader like NetVibes or GoogleReader
Inputs and outputs are customisable
The 5 minute ego feed
Step 1
Go to monitorThis and set up your keyword search
The 5 minute ego feedStep 2
Go to monitorThis and set up your keyword search
blogdigger blogmarks delicious findarticles google blogs google news google picasaweb identica magnolia
metacafe mybloglog opensearch plazoo technorati topix twitter wikio blogs wikio news youtube zimbio
The 5 minute ego feed
Step 3
Open results as an OPML file
The 5 minute ego feedStep 5
Copy and paste the file into a notepad document and save it as MyFeed.opml
The 5 minute ego feedStep 6
Create an account in a reader like NetVibes or GoogleReader
The 5 minute ego feedStep 7
Click on Add content
Click on add a feed and then under OPML select import
The 5 minute ego feedStep 7
Select Browse and select the MyFeed.opml document you made and then click on import
The 5 minute ego feedStep 8
NetVibes will then give you a pretty graphic interface with the overall results and the results per feed
Tweaking your feedResults can be quite varied and may need refining
You can manually add feeds from sites
You can edit or delete each feed on NetVibes
Tweaking your feedAdd in specific feeds like a twitter proximity feed or go more Boolean through their Advanced Search field
Upgrade
You can use various tools once you get the hang of it to get more results.
Yahoo pipes more complicated but much more flexible for advanced users
UpgradePage2Rss is a service that will create RSS feeds from pages without RSS facilities
Google Alerts can create RSS feeds on certain keywords
MSN Keyword Mutation Detection Tool can see what common misspellings occur for a phrase and help you add them to your search
External Google Keyword Tool helps you refine terms searched rather than your search terms
You can now go out and build those relaltionships
Or just stalk yourself…your choice really
More sources
How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard
Creating An Ego Feed With Yahoo Pipes
Page2RSS.com-Create RSS Feed For Any Web Page
Using Netvibes To Create A Current Awareness Service In Healthcare
Netvibes Tutorial