When monitoring social media, don’t forget to monitor social media platforms (changes at Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc) as well as stuff specific to YOUR industry. For my students:
RSS allows you to manually (or autopost) Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc updates from a 3rd party site. It also allows you to build a dashboard in Netvibes, Bufferapp, Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Feedly and other social media dashboards both in a browser and a news reader on your iPhone/Android smart device.
RSS Icons – any colour or the word RSS or Subscribe
Readers (Alternative)
http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/
Traditional News
The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/au OR http://www.theguardian.com/au/rss
The Guardian Social Media section http://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media OR http://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media/rss
The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/help/rss (choose one)
Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/rssheadlines (choose one)
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/syndication/ (choose one)
BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 Or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/default.stm#myfeeds (create your own)
Google Search
News: https://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=social+media or News.google.com
Blogsearch.google.com
Social Media COMPANIES (Press Room/Blog)
Twitter Blog https://blog.twitter.com/ OR https://blog.twitter.com/api/blog.rss?name=company Also https://blog.twitter.com/developer or https://blog.twitter.com/api/blog.rss?name=developer etc.
LinkedIn Blog http://blog.linkedin.com/ Or http://feeds.feedburner.com/LinkedInBlog
Instagram http://blog.instagram.com/ or http://blog.instagram.com/rss (Tumblr)
Pinterest http://blog.pinterest.com/ OR http://blog.pinterest.com/rss
Google Plus Developers Platform http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com.au/ OR http://feeds.feedburner.com/GppBxyz
Klout: http://blog.klout.com/feed/ and http://blog.klout.com/comments/feed/
Facebook Specific
Slideshare (manuals, powerpoint, etc) http://www.slideshare.net/Facebook OR http://www.slideshare.net/rss/user/Facebook
Business: https://www.facebook.com/business
News (biz) https://www.facebook.com/business/news
NewsRoom: http://newsroom.fb.com/ OR http://newsroom.fb.com/feed/
Marketing: https://www.facebook.com/marketing
OLD Studio https://www.facebook-studio.com/news/index OR http://feeds.feedburner.com/facebook-studio/hxhX
Adding hidden RSS feeds from Facebook (may or may not work from time to time)
FORMAT: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=PASTE_ID_HERE
PAGE_ID: easiest way is put graph in front of facebook URL ie graph.facebook.com/silkcharm and then take the ID on the first line
PAGE_ID: Old way: http://findmyfacebookid.com/ paste in Page URL
363337977414
Facebook AU is https://www.facebook.com/FacebookAU or http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id= 363337977414
marketingAPAC is 349211235171565
Marketing is 74100576336
Facebook has around 60+ official Facebook Pages – I’ll post up the OPML later…
Social media NEWS sites (Opinion, Analysis)
Mashable: http://mashable.com/stories/?utm_campaign=Mash-Product-RSS-Pheedo-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Product-RSS-Pheedo-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss
Forbes Social Media: http://www.forbes.com/social-media/ OR http://www.forbes.com/social-media/feed2/
The Guardian The Guardian Social Media section http://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media
Industry Organisations:
Harvard – Customisable feeds: http://www.harvard.edu/harvardedu-rss-feeds
Industry Org PRIA http://www.pria.com.au/ OR feeds for news, Training, Events
ADMA Blog http://www.adma.com.au/connect/blog/rss doesn’t have one on jobs or events or training…
Other
Iconsquare (Instagram analytics) http://blog.iconosquare.com/statigram-index-instagram-ranking-benchmarking-tool BLOGhttp://blog.iconosquare.com/feed/ COMMENTS: http://blog.iconosquare.com/comments/feed/
Facebook to RSS service http://fbrss.com/
page to RSS service http://page2rss.com/
Hidden YOUTUBE Playlist RSS feed is format: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLDD0211021CD7D5F9