Friday, April 10, 2009

Ways to get connected

Was asked last nite at the DLGF meeting at Valparaiso University "Steve, how can I get connected on your Northwest Indiana Politics site and in all these movements, it's so hard to keep track?"

A good question, and one that probably requires more than the answer I gave last nite - permission to revise and extend my remarks :-) Here's a start, more to come later today, your comments and follow-up questions will be used to revise the post today, so leave comments and questions please.

  • Set up an RSS Reader - I use Google's free reader and it's pretty user friendly, you grab the RSS code or feed URL for each site you like to follow. Let's try it - hover your mouse over this link Porter County Politics RSS and right click and choose "copy this URL" or "copy link location" ... now go into your feed reader of choice all of them are easy to set up. In google reader you will see "add subscription" in top left ... choose this button ... in the box right click again and this time "paste" so that the feed you copied goes in the box. Then "add" ... You should be set up to get our headlines in your reader everytime we post. We have just short of 100 subscribers (free) who have done this exact thing and never miss a breaking post.
  • If you are a Facebook member, you can also "follow" us on facebook's networked blogs feature. Porter County Politics Networked on Facebook
  • There is a Tea Party in Porter County on April 15th at 4 p.m. you can get the breaking news on that movement on Facebook or their website.
  • Now some other sites to keep an eye on daily - Hoosier Access, Indiana Hardball Conservative, Blue Indiana, Hoosiers for Fair Taxation, Circle City Pundit, Hoosier Pundit, Blue County Red State, Ft Wayne News, Advance Indiana ... all great political sites in our state and worthy of adding to your RSS reader. Frankly they tend to break news that gets reported by the Times and Post later in the day or even the next day.

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