subscribe to / display an RSS feed as a column
When you click "Add Column" add an option to enter the URL of an RSS/Atom feed (such as a blog you follow). hootsuite then displays the recent items from that feed in the column.
Roger Hicks
shared this idea
The RSS Reader app provides a quick and easy way to view RSS feeds in the HootSuite dash. Simply add your feeds individually, or upload OPML files to import multiple feeds, and get a stream of organized stories and articles that you can not only preview, but share to your social networks.
More info: http://hootsuite.com/app-directory
38 comments
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Kemp Edmonds
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Appy to let everyone know that this is now available in dash!
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Charley Whitmore
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Amazing, I have also submitted this as an essential tool for this program!
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CJ Cornell
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I vote for this, too. It's not that I want another RSS reader (I already use one).... but, for instance - LinkedIN (and Quora) both have questions and answers that I follow - and often either forward/post or answer. To me,m this is much different that reading RSS feeds (though the same technology)... When I check/engage with my social networks via Hootstuite, 'mentally' in the same category, I am needing to check the LinkedIn Answers feed and Quora feed. These are as social as twitter and facebook (ie people posting and discussing) ...
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Laura
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I think this would be a great change for HootSuite, and we could also get Facebook notifications via RSS :) :)
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Anonymous
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This would be great - please do this. Has this been under review for almost 2 years now? I think it's probably time to make a decision. Please.
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Kemp Edmonds
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Here is a short guide to add RSS feeds into HootSuite: http://ow.ly/8YxBE
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Bill Hardison
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I have been searching and searching for for a one stop location for wading through Twitter and RSS feeds to pass along information to our agency's members. HootSuite is the closest only missing the RSS feed access. So I use Google Reader and Hootlet to inform my membership via tweets. Most days I don't get to my actual HootSuite "page" at all.
I would be willing to pay to unify my "social" and "informational" environments.
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Scelza
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+1 for adding this. It would improve workflow tremendously.
Currently:
RSS -> Google Reader -> Send to Hootsuite (configged in Reader settings) -> Save as draft (I have set aside time to do reformats/sends in batches) -> Reformat when I have time -> Send or scheduleCould be:
RSS -> Hootsuite stream -> Click to reformat and send/schedule -
Anonymous
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"This would in essence mean becoming an RSS reader"
Yes it would and yes, that would be beautiful!
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Magnus Attefall
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Need this ASAP!
Have multiple RSS feeds showing and choose wich post to send out.Best regards
Magnus Attefall, Stockholm, Sweden -
David Grimm commented
I've figured out a way to do this--i.e. to turn Hootsuite or TweetDeck into an RSS reader. Lots of steps, but it works beutifully:
http://davidhgrimm.com/2011/09/05/how-to-turn-hootsuite-and-tweetdeck-into-rss-readers-2/ -
Stuart Hemming
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@Kirk Munro makes a good point. I follow a LOT of tech forums and having the ability to pour the RSS feeds for these in to HootSuite would make my working day much easier to manage,
Come on guys. Pick this one up. It's an easy win.
You know you want to. Actually, even if you don't, you can see from this thread WE want you to.
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Daniel Rae
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Agree with this suggestion. Being able to pull in, for example, Google Alerts RSS feeds, to help us monitor forums and blogs, along with Hootsuite's native Twitter monitoring, would be perfect. If not, I have to switch between multiple apps/websites.
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Justin Geeslin commented
I would like this because then I could post things to my RSS and use HootSuite to schedule tweets and statuses! That is a killer feature! It seems only a few hops away.
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Stuart Hemming
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5 months ago, @Ian suggested just having to options to switch off reposts from an existing RSS/Atom feed. Now surely /that/ would be a no-brainer. You're already doing what we want and then some. Just give us the option to switch off the 'and then some'.
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Stuart Hemming
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I think that just allowing access to an RSS feed is actually a good fit for this kind of product. I'd love to be able to see a column for an RSS feed in here with the option of streaming individual posts to another account.
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flahey
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I think the first suite wich will add this feature will gain a LOT of new users. You NEED RSS Reader to become THE social network complete suite. Because some user wanna POST things and some user wanna READ things.
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AB
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The ability to add RSS feeds to a single column would be awesome. Please add!
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bevmerriman
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Many of our clients rely on RSS to source articles to tweet (as part of their social media strategy). Ultimately they don't want to stream an RSS feed through your twitter account, they'd like to be selective of what's tweeted. The option to stream several RSS subscriptions into one column will make HS a powerhouse.
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Kirk Munro
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I disagree with you Chris. RSS feeds are an essential part of social networking. For example forums are social networking, and there are RSS feeds for forums. I would like to subscribe to forum RSS feeds in hootsuite to manage the forum posts with my team, be able to assign certain posts to certain team members, and make sure everything is being processed efficiently this way. Today I can monitor tweets about my product, FaceBook comments, and more, but I can't monitor forum posts (old-school social networking).
Further, even getting beyond forums, being able to monitor community RSS feeds and assign certain feed posts to different members would also be very useful, especially when we want someone to reply to a post in the comments, or when we want to blog about a post, etc.
All to say, don't think about this request as a request for an RSS reader. Think about this request as a request to be able to manage social networking information that is made available through RSS feeds. I realize it would be like you're creating an RSS reader, but frankly I don't see any way around it. After using your product for only a few days in an enterprise environment, this is the one piece of functionality that I felt was very clearly missing from the product.
