How to share a blogroll

by Dresden Shumaker on January 3, 2013

how to create a bundle of blogs to share with others I have been really thrilled by how many bloggers have decided to stand up and proclaim, “YES! In 2013 I will make an effort to blog more, read more blogs, and stretch beyond my own corner of the blogosphere to meet new kinds of writers.” It is incredibly easy to do this.

The first step is to add your blog URL to the connected blogger list.

The next step, and this is so simple that I am giddy, is to subscribe to every blog on the list. I am doing the “hard” work by adding each new URL to a folder within my feed reader. All you have to do is subscribe to the folder.

Now before you go all, WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A MINUTE is this all a ploy to have people subscribe to Dresden? No. It isn’t. When you click subscribe what you are doing is subscribing to a bundle I created. One click and this entire list of blogs is added to your feed reader! And it isn’t just a big woosh of blogs it is an organized FOLDER.

Subscribe to the RSS of all feeds in the connected blogger list

(Get ready for your feed reader to get large! You can easily dismiss posts older than a week to make the new folder of blogs more manageable.)
the subscribe

: process of subscribing

: you are subscribed!

: your new subscribed folder

Sweet, right?

So the time may come when you want to create your own folder of blogs for people to subscribe to.

How to create a bundle of a folder of RSS feeds

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: 1. within google reader click on folder you want to “bundle”

: look for “folder settings” and within that drop down select create bundle

: you can easily add blogs by dragging them into the bundle

: you can also easily delete them

: Click “add a link” to get the link to share

: hint to save your sanity: rather than clearing ALL blogs if you haven’t read in a while, consider just deleting the posts that are older than a week

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1 JP January 3, 2013 at 12:13 pm

Thank you! This will be a great help!

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2 Junebug January 3, 2013 at 12:51 pm

Thanks!! I might have said it before but it still holds true -> You rock!

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3 Carrie January 3, 2013 at 1:29 pm

That is really awesome! I just subscribed and have already made a comment. Now. . . this is tricky. . is there a way to unsub from a blog in the folder?

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