Finally – the moment has arrived!
Yes, for all of you who have been prodding and patiently waiting for GovLoop to have an option that allows you to post once on your own blog and have it fed directly via RSS to the community, the time has come.
Before I tell you how it works, we owe a HUGE thanks to Devin, Kyle and Peter from Ning for the hard work to make this happen. Steve says, “You guys rock!”
It just takes 5 simple steps:
1 – Go to http://govloopblogimporter.appspot.com
2 – Enter your email and password for a Google account (this is because our importer app is hosted on Google App Engine).
3 – Authorize the sync server to connect to GovLoop by clicking the ‘Add your credentials’ link and entering your email and password for GovLoop.
4 – Click the “Add a Feed” link and add your RSS feed(s).
5 – Once added, the feed will be checked hourly for new content with it uploaded to GovLoop under your profile.
Let me know if you have any questions or issues…but it should make your like a whole lot easier…and community members get your insight even faster!
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Great news, Andy! Thanks for the heads up.
Yay! Just in time for me to start my blog! Now, I just need a clever name… Got any auto-naming apps?
Andy — added credentials, got this message — Credentials added! — but no link to add feed? Is that on another page? Thanks
Yep – its on the next page…..
This is huge. Makes it a lot easier to contribute to the conversation here and share what’s going on. Next step: how to filter it all 🙂
Hmm, auto RSS. Not all my blog posts go to GovLoop. As a matter of fact, not all my blog posts go my blogs. Some stay with specialized groups. I think in 2011 we are about to blunder into the granularity of our contacts, and the different properties of connectedness. I’m not sure what it means except not all my connections are interested in the same things which I manually try to control/anticipate.
Steve — no navigation on the credential page I saw. Can you share link to page with the Add Feed option?
Hey Chris-
Do you get to this screen once you’ve logged-in w/ your Google login (but before adding credentials)?
See add feed at bottom
Very nice! Thanks for this!
@Tara* – why not brainstorm with the community? Post a new forum question: “Starting a New Blog! What Should I Call It?” Give a little details on the topic and we’ll help you name it…
@Andy – Great idea! Thanks!
Wonderful! We’re launching a new Collaboration Project site TODAY and this is perfect for our new blog. Many thanks, guys!
Buried in here is a great comment by Dick Davies – not all of our blog posts should go to GovLoop – I know I may be speaking heresy but the flip side of making things easier is making things homogeneous. I brought this up at the Facebook conference last year when they were touting how there were so many great apps to consolidate and share all your information with all your groups. Doesn’t this negate having communities that are just focused on key topics?
@Kathleen – Don’t worry…we’ll help to filter and promote the most relevant stuff.
@Charlie: here’s mine from the GenShift blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/generationshiftblog
Here’s an example from CNN: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
@Jean-Paul:
1) Blog importer goes to blog section, though there is also an RSS feed option in groups. Theoretically, you could run a blog into GovLoop AND the group.
2) You’d just go into the importer and edit…or let us know and we can delete on your behalf.
Great idea! Thanks for this.
Hi Andrew – Thank you for this great tool! How can I edit the feeds I’ve put in the application? Thanks!
How do you delete a blog feed? I have a video blog, but the importer doesn’t push videos. So my blog posts on GovLoop that are imported look like they’re missing something.
Thanks, Andrew! This will be a big help!
Cannot connect to importer, regardless of security and cookie settings.
There is an option on my profile page to add an RSS feed. Will that RSS blog feed also be “fed to the community” just as explained with the option here? Just trying to understand the current options.