How to Find Engaging Content for Your Social Media Profiles

(A Feedly Tutorial)

Feedly is a news

aggregator

that brings all

the updates

from your

favorite blogs

to one place.

This tool is

useful when:

1. You need to

find content to

curate for

your social

media

profiles; and

2. When you

need to come

up with ideas

for blog posts.

It’s so easy

to use!

First, you need

to sign up

for a Feedly

account.

For this

tutorial, I’m

going to use

an existing

Google account.

It’s much

quicker that

way.

Go to the Feedly

welcome page:

http://feedly.com/i/welcome

Click this:

You will

see this:

Click this:

Choose an

account.

Enter your

password.

Hit the sign-

in button.

You will

see this:

Click the allow

button.

Voila!

You’re in!

Here’s the

search box

You may either

enter the title

of the blog you

wish to follow.

You may also

enter its URL.

If you want to

look for a blog

in your niche,

you can enter

a keyword

preceded by a

hash tag (#).

Let’s say you

want to find

motivational

blogs.

Type

“#motivation”

in the search

bar.

Hit the

Enter key.

You’ll find

blogs on

motivation

as well as

related posts.

Click the

green cross

to add the item

to your reading

list.

You will

see this:

To create a new

collection,

click this:

Name your

collection and

click CREATE.

Your new

collection has

been created!

Let’s choose

another blog.

You’ll see this:

To add the blog

to the

motivation

collection,

just click this:

You’ll see a

green circle

with a check

when it’s

been added.

The updates on

the blogs you

chose

will appear

in your

newsfeed.

You can find

interesting

blog posts

and other

types of

content.

Then, you

can share

the link

on your

social media

profiles.

Let’s say you

want to

include a blog

in your Feedly

news feed.

You can

click this:

or this:

You will

see this:

Add the URL

here and hit

ENTER:

You will

see this:

Again, click

the green

cross

to add the

item to your

reading list.

Add it to your

collection

by clicking the

name of the

collection:

See the green

circle with a

check mark?

It means that

the blog has

been

added to your

reading list.

For more

tutorials like

this visit: theproactivepro.wordpress.com

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