Hello everyone!
I just finished the OPML for all the blog URLs. I am excited to add it to my Feedly and dive into your blogs this semester.
All the course activity and posts can seem like a raging waterfall but utilizing a feed reader will help you!
SO – here’s how it works…. I would strongly suggest using a feed reader (like Feedly) for our course and for the future. You can easily import the class OPML into your reader and have access to all the student blogs and our main course blog in a “collection.” Then, you may want to find other blogs to follow as you grow your own professional and personal set of feeds. I read all kinds of entertainment, tech, and lifestyle blogs/sites in my feeds. Using feeds is a very useful skill for future information professionals.
We have a full and rich roster of folks. We used first names in the feed titles because it helps me get to know you all. Note: I hope we didn’t make any mistakes!!
I would suggest downloading it to your desktop (via whatever method of mouse clicks you use on your computing platform) and then importing the file into reader of your choice. Make sure the file extension is .opml I suggest Feedly and use it in the steps below.
So here’s the challenge to some fearless #hyperlib student – please add the OPML to your reader and report back here in a comment!
For some background, view this video:
Second, follow these steps if you are using Feedly:
- Set up an account with Feedly
- Read over this helpful page: https://blog.feedly.com/opml/
- Click on your user profile pic and select Organize Sources
- In the Organize Sources window locate the import OPML button
- Click on Import OPML and locate the file you saved above or drag and drop the file if your browser supports that functionality.
- Follow the directions on the import screen: Choose file and Import
- You are ready to go!
Other sites will import differently but the OPML is a standard file type.
Image: Snoqualmie Falls, Washington in the 70s
Yes! Seems to have worked. The import populated a list of student blogs in alpha order in the left-side pick list.
A nice feature of this utility is the fact any given link (listed blog) disappears after each unread item has been read for that blog.
Or stated differently – read blogs populate to the bottom of the pick list:).
@aarontassin Yay! Thanks for jumping in.
I signed up to the free version of Feedly by using my SJSU email and imported the OPML file to the website. It works and now I have a list of everyone’s blog activity. Thanks for the tutorial!
Success! It was fairly simple to import the OPML file. Now I just need to familiarize myself with Feedly. Thank you for the detailed instructions!
It works for me as well! Thank you for the helpful step by step.
Works great! Thank you!
Yay, success with the OPML files…
Thanks for the clear instructions! It’s always nice (and sometimes surprising) when stuff just works!!
@martmart @naomimcd @janine @annaberger @michele @maryann. Yay! Thanks for reporting your success.
Phew! I did it… Now I am ready!
@hfergie YAY!
Thanks for the clear instructions! I was able to do it successfully as well!
@ecraig24 That is great!
Done, finally. I thought it was going to be much more difficult than it was.
Done, much easier than I thought it would be.
@tremmer @tsjennings Great! It is a pretty straight forward process… probably the most daunting thing is the file called OPML!