Three Reasons To Become Friends With FriendFeed
If you are an avid user of Twitter, you might have found yourself showing less friends last week due to a data base error.
I ‘lost’ a couple of hundred of friends who had been following me and also found some people who I had been following disappeared. I am still not convinced I have managed to remember all of the key people that I followed and it was a timely reminder that when we join a social network that it’s not good business practice just to rely on the online data base of the online network to be the primary place for business contacts.
One action I took last week was to make sure that I had another way to access the Twitter feeds for key people in my network and I did this in FriendFeed.com.
FriendFeed is an free online service for you to keep up to date with the online activity of friends from updates they make on their blog, Twitter, YouTube – in fact over 40 different services are supported.
So when I realised that I had ‘lost’ some of the people I was following in Twitter, I made sure that I had ‘subscribed’ to their feed in FriendFeed.com.
But what is all your friends are not using FriendFeed.com? After all, we know how many of us struggle to keep up to date with being an active member in one or two social networks.
Well you can create ‘imaginary friends’ in FriendFeed.com. For example, as I knew the Twittter name they go by, I created an imaginary friend profile for people I wanted to follow on Twitter but were not using FriendFeed.com. The only time I found this not to work is when someone has their Twitter account set up in a way that you have to request to follow them.
A second feature I really like in FriendFeed.com are the rooms – a place online for a particular subject or group of people. Rooms can be private – for example I have created a private room for my own research, or public – I have a FriendFeed room for the ‘Biz Growth Community’ where you can add feedback and questions about our ‘Biz Growth Live Masterclass’ calls. I have also created a FriendFeed room for ‘The Podcast Sisters’ for listeners of the show and a room for ‘Social Media in Ireland’ .There’s no limit to the number of rooms you can join or create.
A third feature that is really helpful is that there is also a FriendFeed bookmarklet which enables you to share anything from the web – either in a specific feed or in a particular room.
In a recent Podcast Sisters podcast we discussed FriendFeed and you can access the FriendFeed podcast we recorded here.
So if you have not checked out Friend Feed, why not do so today? And if you are using FriendFeed, how have you found it has helped you build your network online or as a productivity or research tool?
Article by Krishna De and courtesy of Biz Growth News blog
