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Keeping up with my friends stumbles is getting hard and harder, as my mutual friends and targets list grows. I currently have 30 mutual friends of whom I try to stay updated with all the time. I am also targeting another 22 people, of whom I want to become friends with. That’s a total of 52 people who I am trying to be very active with. So you can imagine how hard, and time consuming it was getting to visit their profiles to see if they posted anything new.

I decided to do some research, and testing on ways to stay informed. I figured out a nice little technique using RSS feeds. If you notice on each stumblers profile page, there are two RSS buttons. One is for anything they review, and the other is for anything they thumb up. I find it most important to stay current with the ones they are reviewing. This means they have either submitted an article themselves, of which they want to promote, or they are helping the promotion of a friend’s article.

Using RSS helps simplify, and reduce the time of checking up on all your friends’ activities 24/7. Now you can syndicate all your friends, and targets into a reader, and check it whenever you have the time. It now takes about 30 minutes to catch up on all 52 friends’ activities. Review their articles, and thumb them up. Really nice considering this process used to take countless hours of visiting each friend’s page individually, and I usually had to do this several times per day.

Now the only thing left was to find a really good RSS management system. One that will allow me to group the feeds, and mark them as completed when I finished reading, and thumbing. Technically you can use any RSS reader service out there, however the one I decided to go with is feedeachother.com. It has a simple to use interface, and loads about 10 times faster than Google reader. It also has the ability to archive the articles you are completed with, so you don’t have to revisit the same ones over and over. It allows you to clip an article, in case you want to spend additional time reading one specific article later, if you don’t have time to read it right at that moment. Lastly, it has a share this article feature that allows you to push the article to all your feedeachother fans.

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I have also heard about another service called friendfeed.com, which is currently in beta, but it will allow you to synchronize all your friends’ social networking profiles such as digg, propeller, reddit, and all the rest. I have already signed up to be notified of its launch, or if I can get in as a beta tester.

If you are finding it hard to keep updated on all your friends’ activities, I highly recommend taking advantage of this feature. It will reduce the time needed to stay active with all your friends, and all of your friends, and targets will really appreciate you keeping updated on them, without them having to request attention from you every time they want to promote an article.

If you want to network with me you can find me at http://feedeachother.com/robertpriolo/

Also, don’t forget to add my StumbleUpon RSS feed to your reader, so that you can stay updated and current with all my latest reviews and articles

http://www.stumbleupon.com/syndicate.php?stumbler=4655332&comments=1

The Rest of the StumbleUpon Series

StumbleUpon Series Part 1 - A Commitment To Mastering StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon Series Part 2 - My True Intentions Are Not To Spam Or Game The System
StumbleUpon Series Part 3 - Where Does All That Traffic Come From?
StumbleUpon Series Part 4 - A Different Perspective On Your Friends And Fans
StumbleUpon Series Part 5 - Making The Right Friends In The Right Places
StumbleUpon Series Part 6 - Fans, Fans And More Fans
StumbleUpon Series Part 7 - Be An Active Member Of The Community
StumbleUpon Series Part 8 - The Importance Of Understanding Taxonomy
StumbleUpon Series Part 9 - Submitting An Article Like A Pro And Not Like A Newbie

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