We just released the ability to use RSS feeds in Dasheroo. Sounds so 2007 doesn’t it? But the power of RSS for access to data is awesome. Yeah we’re geeks, but let’s not think of it as “RSS”, let’s think of it as not having to troll the web or click a million bookmarks to find the up-to-the minute data you’re looking for. So we decided to give you these 10 awesome uses for RSS feeds.
Let’s get ready to rumble with RSS!
1. Track your competition. Go to your competitor’s blog and see if they have an RSS link. If they do? Great. If they don’t you might want to try using the blog URL and adding a /rss to the end of it and see if that works when you create your Dasheroo Insight.
We like to see what the competition and industry is up to, compared to what we’re writing about!
2. Track your Tweets. If you’ve got someone doing your company Tweets for you and you want to keep a quick eye on what you’re saying it’s easy, especially if you have multiple Twitter accounts you want to monitor. Go to FeedTwit, sign in with your Twitter account, use that URL in Dasheroo.
3. Gather inspiration. If you write content for your company gather the URLs of the sites you visit to give you that information. For instance on Dasheroo’s Dataviz Friday we follow 538, Flowingdata and Information is Beautiful and republish their awesome content with backlinks to their site.
4. Track crazy nutty holidays. Perhaps you plan marketing campaigns around holidays, did you know that April 11th was Barbershop Quartet Day? You could run promotions around fun holidays you never heard of.
5. Track sports. Track the latest news from your favorite team, cuz let’s face it, it can’t be all about business!
We track all of these amazing sites for inspiration on what to post, crazy holidays and … hey, how did the SF Giants news get in there?
6. Track the weather. Let’s say you count on business in another zip code or state. If local weather is preventing them from getting business done with you, that could have an affect on your sales. Go to the National Weather Service, at the bottom of the page choose the location you want to track the weather for. Then use the URL they give you for your Dasheroo Weather Insight! Make sure you’re diversifying your selling or your advertising from those locations.
7. Track Google Alerts. If you’ve got some alerts set up that mention you or your company you can get them into a feed. Just select RSS Feed in your Google Alert settings instead of email, click on the RSS icon and you’ll get URL you’ll need to put into your Dasheroo RSS Insight.
8. Track your mentions. If you use a service like Mention.com or Trackur, when you set up your alert, go to settings, manage your alerts and click on the RSS icon. Then take that URL and create a Dasheroo Insight for that.
9. Track your own blog. If you’ve got someone writing blog content for your company you might want to share it with everyone who is looking at your dashboards. Then your sales or customer service team knows what is being said when your readers ask about it.
10. Food. And because it can’t be all about business and sports, how about best recipes of the day! Food Network has a plethora of them! Use http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/tag/best-recipes/rss as your URL for your feed.
We’re hungry now!
There ya have it. Get on in there and have a blast with RSS, we are!
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