Connect faster and learn more with FriendFeed

#BCMem 08-Nov-2008 1pmjoin in: tinyurl.com/connectandlearn

Welcome to the session!

Thanks for attending everyone!  Contact me @dpritchett on Twitter if you'd like to add something.

I'm Daniel J. Pritchett.  I write a blog on collaboration and community engagement at SharingAtWork.com.  I work in software engineering for International Paper.

So what's FriendFeed?

FriendFeed is a lifestream

FriendFeed is a social network

First glance: Lifestreaming

Your online presence is fragmented.  Splice the pieces back together with a personal lifestream.

Joe Spake's lifestream

FriendFeed as a social network

Subscribe to a few Memphians on FriendFeed and your main page will weave their streams together.  You'll be following multiple people in chronological order.

Most importantly, you'll also see items submitted by non-friends.  These show up in your feed when your buddies share them by clicking "Like".

Effortless friend of friend connections

Drown yourself in information

Read and share to FriendFeed rooms devoted to different topics.

Watch rooms or lists in the new real-time view

Subscribe to any FriendFeeder who shows an interest in the topics you care about

Create imaginary friends to track a lifestream for someone who doesn't have their own FF stream

Dip into the Everyone page to drink updates from all FF users

Now, make FriendFeed work for you

Reshape the river of content

Use lists to group your subscriptions by content like People who live in Memphis, People who work for FedEx, or People who willingly talk with me about college football on the Internet

Curate and publish your own topics

Participate in moderated groups

Trade ideas with thought leaders

Crowdsource your ideas

Search your own archives - or everyone's

Where do I go from here?

Connect on the go with friendfeed.com/iphone or FFtoGo.com 

Identify interesting people with FFHolic.com  and other FriendFeed recommendation tools

Become a cool hunter by sharing wonderful things to FriendFeed via Del.icio.us bookmarks, Google Reader shared items, YouTube favorites, and more

Extend a conversation from Twitter to FriendFeed and back

How will you use FriendFeed?Let's talk about some things you'd

like to do on FriendFeed and how to make them happen.

Add your own ideas here

Anyone can contribute to this slideshow. Log in and share your own ideas!

• Yahoo pipes allow you to splice together feeds in fun ways• Feedburner provides good RSS enhancement and tracking

options• FriendFeed offers widgets as a way to share out the

streams you've created• Not sure you can suppress comments on FF