Hello everyone!
We just finished the OPML for all the blog URLs. I am excited to add it to my Feedly and dive into your blogs.
Please say hello too @elicon89
Elizabeth is working with me this semester on a INFO 298 WordPress Immersive Experience and will be creating some content and more for my classes on WP. She created the OPML for us! YAY! If we missed anyone, please just let us know!
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.
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.
Here’s a screenshot:
Image: Snoqualmie Falls, Washington in the 70s
I was able to import the OPML file into my Feedly account. I’m new to RSS, so I’m curious to see what comes next.
@evura Yay! Do you see all the blogs?
@michael I do. All 33.
@evura Yay!
It worked for me too! Just a tip: you can also add Feedly as a browser extension in Google Chrome. I went to my profile picture on the main Feedly page and clicked “Browser Add-Ons”. It makes it super accessible at all times.
@sarahnoel721Thank you for the tip!
Wow, thanks!
Thank you for this great tip.
Success! Thank you @elicon89 & @michael it was super easy to import the OPML. This makes it so much easier to see everyone’s intro posts that I missed. Just for the sake of tinkering, I added the Feedly app to my phone. I must say this is a super handy way to do a quick read of some of our posts and comments.
Yay for the OPML file!
Thanks, @sarahnoel721, for the suggestion to add Feedly as an extension.
And thank you to @michael and @elicon89 for getting me back into using Feedly.
I had added the app to my phone when I first started at SJSU and haven’t done much with it.
Holy Blog Feed, Batman! It worked like a CHARM. Thank you so much @elicon89 and @michael!
Also, what a great photo of Snoqualmie Falls! I love it there. (Also — some pretty good little breweries down the road from there…)
I am in! I can see all of the blogs! This is my first time using Feedly and it is awesome.
Worked for me, too! This is also my first time using Feedly; thanks for the easy-to-follow directions!
Hi, @elicon89 it’s nice to meet you! Everything worked swimmingly for me, too.
I’m all set up on OPML! What a great tool, and nice to meet you @elicon89
It worked for me. Thanks for putting the file together @elicon89! Feedly is my preferred to method for following content so this is ideal for me.
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It worked for me! Love seeing all the blogs in one place. Thanks @elicon89 and @Michael!!
@sarahnoel721 @tvandeusen @michellecal678 @roseholck @eramirezsegura @annie @mhannum @flee @jwebb202 @juliemcpherson Hurrah – thanks for all the feedback, tips and sharing here.
Hi @elicon89 and @michael! This is my first time using Freedly and it worked perfectly! Thanks!
@angelina Yay! 🙂
Hi @elicon89 and @michael!
It’s great to see everyone in the reader.
@eileen It’s very cool to see the posts coming in week to week. 🙂
OPML…Another strange acronym to add to my toolbox. Thank you, Professor Stephens and Elizabeth for introducing me to it. Success!
@kbryantsjsu You are very welcome! 🙂
Hey Everyone!!
It’s very lovely to meet you all 🙂 I am excited to be assisting @michael this semester!
Thanks @tvandeusen, @michellecal678, @roseholck (what a great tip!!), @mhannum, @flee, @jwebb202, @juliemcpherson, @angelina, @eileen, and @kbryantsjsu for the shout outs!!!~
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if anyone wants to chat or has a question I can help with. I’ll be around and popping into some of the tribes!
Happy reading 😀
It worked! Very cool. Thanks for getting me back on the Feedly bandwagon and for putting the OPML file together @michael and @elicon89!
I have never used a feed reader before and was a little intimidated by it but the process was a lot easier than I expected.
@arwenogriffith @jbolwar Yay! I hope it is a helpful tool for this semester and going forward.
@elicon89
whenever you get a chance, I was curious why when I made a post, it doesn’t show as a new post on OPML? Is it cause I’m the same “poster” so it doesn’t show? Just want to make sure my posts show up for everyone!
@flee Sometimes it takes awhile for the feed to refresh. I see a new post from you in my Feedly from 11 hours ago. 🙂 Let me know how it goes.
Thanks @michael for advising! @flee let us know if there is still some trouble and we will look into it further!