This one is for those of you new to blogging (and, yes, that is a verb!). If you follow only one blog, it’s not difficult to open that page each day to check for new entries; however, if you are like me and follow more than twenty blogs, this can absorb a tremendous amount of time that you’d rather spend doing something else. Mix in that many bloggers don’t add new posts every day and you’ve wasted time navigating to their page only to find nothing new. Ugh!
Enter Blog Readers, an ingenious techie tool! There are many Blog Readers on the internet so just enter ‘Blog Reader’ into your favorite search engine to find a list of options. I like integration so I use the one that fits in with all of the other online business that I do, but that’s certainly not a requirement.
What does a Reader do exactly?
A Blog Reader makes checking a list of Blog entries as easy as checking your email. In one place, you have a list of all the blogs you follow and the reader will alert you to new entries by making the related title bold, just like email! Simply click the bold title, and read the entry. Voila! It’s really that easy!
How do I get started using a Reader?
Looking toward the upper right of the PWOC Blog page (above the Search box), you’ll find a Subscribe link that looks like this:
Clicking this image will return the many Reader options from which to choose and selecting the Reader of your choice will subscribe the PWOC Blog to your Reader. From here, you simply check in with your Blog Reader daily to find what’s new in your Blog world.
Disclaimer: This has in no way been a step-by-step tutorial for establishing a Blog Reader account. For more detailed instructions, there is a virtual mountain of information available online found by using your favorite search engine as described above.
