SESSION+2+-+Weaving+your+blogging+network

<- Back to Main Workshop Outline =Session 2 - Reading/ Weaving Your Blog Network= Chris Lott, Lead 1:00p - 2:45p

Outcomes

 * Understand advantages and disadvantages of types and instances of Feed Readers
 * Signup with Google Reader
 * Find and Subscribe to sites by URL and OPML Import
 * OPML of Participants' Blogs: [] (Expires Oct 12, 2008)
 * Practice basic feed reader use
 * Learn strategies for discovering sites to subscribe to and recognizing existence of feeds
 * Use Google Blogs search and Technorati aggregator
 * Learn and use Google Reader stars and tags (for personal management)
 * Learn and use Google Reader sharing, notes and shared tags (for sharing)
 * Enable Google Analytics for Statistics

Session Outline

 * ===Time === || ===Topic/Activities === ||
 * 1:00-1:25p || === Getting Started with Web Feeds: Reading and Aggregation===
 * What are feeds? Acronym stew
 * Aggregators: email, desktop, portal pages, web apps
 * [|Sign up for Google account] & access [|Google Reader]
 * Subscribe to [|OLDaily] & Read ||
 * 1:25-1:45 || ===Web Feeds: Search and Discovery===
 * Blog search tools
 * Friends and FOAFs
 * Blogrolls (e.g. [|Borderland]) and Comment Trails (e.g. [|Weblogg-ed])
 * [|Human Aggregators] & Link Bloggers
 * [|Technorati] and Tags ([|Folksonomies]) ||
 * 1:45-2:10 || ===Information Like Water: Saving and Sharing with [|Google Reader]===
 * Keeping items unread (return to)
 * Starring (remember)
 * Share (refeed)
 * Share with Note (contribute) ||
 * 2:10-2:25 || ===Participation and Network Effects===
 * Commenting and "Remote Commenting"
 * Effective Linking and [|Linktributions]
 * The Virtuous Circle of Participation (social and intellectual capital)
 * Spam, Spam, Spam ||
 * 2:25-2:45 || ===It's All About Us (The Power of Positive Narcissism)===
 * What matters (and what doesn't) about stats
 * The Dashboard ([|incoming links])
 * Enabling statistics ([|Google Analytics])
 * Referrers
 * Trackbacks/Pingbacks (with comments) ||