- [Narrator] Content curation is a big part
of using social media.
Nowadays. It's a pretty big turnoff when you go to
someone's Twitter or Facebook feed, and it's filled only
with self-promoting links to their blog or website
a great way to get around that is to curate content
from other sources to share with your followers
to create a little more trust and authenticity.
This can get time consuming, however
and that is where Feedly comes into play.
As we can see from their homepage
Feedly provides a great way to keep
up with topics and trends without being overwhelmed.
Let's take a look.
Okay, so here I am inside a Feedly
and there are two primary ways we can use Feedly.
We can subscribe to the RSS feeds
from our favorite sources to see their latest updates.
Additionally, we can use Feedly boards to
handpick content that can later be shared
with our followers.
So to get started, let's go ahead and let's just
create a feed by clicking on this, create a feed button.
Now we can give this feed a name
and we can add multiple sources
to one feed so we can keep it pretty general.
So we'll just call this one technology.
So now that we have our feed created
we need to add some sources.
So we can just click on add content
notice that we can find content based on a topic, a website
or an RSS link.
So I can just search my website.
There it is.
And then we can click on the follow button
and then we can add it to our technology feed.
So now, if you look
at the left side of our screen, we have the feed section.
We have our technology feed, and if we click on it
we'll start to see articles from that source.
Now I haven't posted in a little while
so we do have to click on this
see all articles button, but there you go.
There's some articles from my site.
Now, if we want it to add a new source, we could just click
on the plus button and we could search for another source.
So I have a website that I like to look at for Mac updates.
It's called OSX daily.
So I could find them, I could click
on follow and I could add them also to the technology feed.
So now when we go to our technology feed
we would see articles from both sites.
So you can add as many sources as you'd like to one feed
and you can create multiple feeds.
Notice that we have the create new feed button
over here on the left.
So that's a great way to organize the different
sources that you follow by topic.
And then you can quickly take a look through your list
without having to go to each website individually.
And so if you say, Hey, you know
this looks like it would be a great article
for my followers to see as well.
We could just click on it.
And then from right inside Feedly we can share it
notice that we have some share buttons up here at the top.
We have the tweet button.
We could also click
on the three little dots and you have some more options.
So you can share to Facebook
custom sharing one note, pocket
all those methods of sharing.
Okay. That's great.
So that's how we can use feeds here inside a Feedly
but notice that we also have this board section
so we could create a new board
and we can give it whatever title we'd like.
So we can just call this, you know, tech board.
We could give it a description if we'd like
we could make it public
so people can actually follow us on Feedly and then
they'll see the articles that we're adding to this board.
That's up to you.
And then we can just click create.
So now on this board, notice
that we can actually save articles
to this board by clicking on the add article button.
So I could go and I could find a URL to an article.
I could paste it in here and then it would be saved.
And so maybe, you know, we're just doing our normal daily
you know, going to our different sources.
Maybe we're looking at our feeds, right?
And we see, Hey, here's a cool article from OSX daily.
So I could just copy the link of that article.
And I could go in here and add it to a board.
So maybe you just take an hour out
of one day a week and you go in
and you add a whole bunch of articles to your board.
And then the next week you start sharing those articles
on your Twitter account or your Facebook account.
So by using both the feed section
of Feedly and the board section of Feedly
we can efficiently curate content to share with
our users to create a little bit more trust, authenticity
and to be a bigger part of the community, right?
Because like I said, you don't want to have
a Twitter feed that is only self promoting links.
People won't even look at them
they'll go right away from that.
So by sharing other people's content
you seem more authentic.
You probably are being more authentic
and you're also providing a lot more value to your users.
And you're showing that you're not all about self promotion
but you're really about contributing
to the community as a whole.
So if you're looking to curate content
look no further than Feedly.