I thought it would be cool to track all of the various Legion of Tech activities. I started with a Yahoo Pipe that pulls together blog posts, Twitter conversations, and Flickr images that mention legionoftech, startupalooza, igniteportland, and barcampportland. I also used the rss feed from this pipe in a nice little sidebar widget. You can see a copy of this widget in the sidebar of this blog.
Legion of Tech Pipe Usage:
- Add the Legion of Tech rss feed to your favorite feed reader.
- Go to the Legion of Tech tracker and run the pipe to see the output without adding it to your reader.
Use the Widget:
Embed this code in your blog:
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Advanced Tracking Usage:
You can also use this pipe to track any other keywords from blog posts, Twitter, and Flickr with a custom csv file
- Create a custom csv file with a new line for each keyword you want to track and put it somewhere that can be accessed via a url. Make sure there are no blank lines in your csv.
- Go to the Legion of Tech tracker
- Enter the url of your csv file and run the pipe
- Grab the rss feed output
Feel free to leave me any feedback or suggestions to improve the pipe or the widget.
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