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Written by: Patrick Salomon on Mar 31 2010, 2:56pm

How to discover interesting content ?


You may have noticed some ways to discover new content on SoftCity, but do you know all of them ?

Here is a tutorial to find what you may consider interesting.

RSS feed

RSS feed is the best way to discover all new content. Currently, you have a single RSS feed, but soon, you'll have more choice (by channel, by expert...)Easy to use.

Home Page

The home page is a sample of each channel. You can see the last 2 articles from each channel.You can focus on a channel and use its portal. You will discover all types of contributions.

Experts

This is a great feature to discover articles ! Add someone as your favorite expert (you can find a button on their public profile page), and you'll have in your Dashboard contributions they made.You can easily see content from experts sharing the same interests.Soon, a RSS will be added to have contributions from your experts ! (I just can't wait :) )

Commuter

You may have noticed this email, the beautiful blue one. There is a lot of interesting information in the commuter.You find how much SoftDollars you have earned, what your favorite experts recently wrote, and if you don't have enough contributions from your experts, we will offer you some popular content.

That's it ! you are now ready to discover tones of contents !

Citizens Comments

Adam Black says:

RSS is a great way of organizing new/interesting information very quickly in one place. Most new browsers have RSS readers built-in, and there are many standalone applications which put all your subscribed RSS feeds in one place.

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Apr 6 2010, 1:05pm | Report

Max Eidswick says:

OK, two quick questions:  (1) How to setup the RSS feeds for Outlook internal on Exchange and via POP3 servers and (2) How to 'become a fan' of someone? 

I am new to SoftCity and am just learning how powerful it is. 

I would like to try to consolidate some of my notes and put them up as short articles (mostly on disk, file systems, system internals, and digital developing, etc.).   The http://cafe.softcity.com/contribution/wkzNwEzN/view/how-to-make-my-articles-read article looks like a good starting point but any other guidance or direction will be much appreciated!

TIA

Max

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Apr 10 2010, 7:26am | Report

Patrick Salomon says:

@Max : You should ask this kind of question in a real question (see in the header, Create a contribution). You'll have an answer faster.

So, to use RSS, you need a reader. This is not a mail, but, Outlook can read RSS fead. RSS feeds are just pages with list of information. No matter if you're on internal server, POP3 or whatever. I don't know the way to add a RSS in outlook, but if you are using FireFox, look into the URL bar, you'l find the RSS icon. Just click on it and you will have to choose your reader. Outlook should be here.

To become a fan of someone, go in his (or her) profile. Find in the top bar an heart. Click on it, and that's it. We will improve this visibility.

Waiting to read your articles now :)

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Apr 11 2010, 7:29am | Report

Max Eidswick says:

>Waiting to read your articles now :)

OK, :-) I gave it a try and posted my first one.  We'll see if anyone reads it and/or comments. 

I will try a conversation next ... something controversial like Nikon vs. Canon should be a good starting point!

Thanks for the help. 

If there is any interest, I will do three follow-up articles on image backups, file-by-file apps, and encrypted archival to portable storage media.

 

 

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