Keeping up with iParaglide
Friday, November 25, 2011 at 14:59 Craig Fleming Not so much a paragliding related post, as keeping-up-with-paragliding related. If you're like me, every so often you'll find yourself on the iParaglide site (likely at 5am, looking at the weather) and you'll skim through a few articles that have come up over the last few months. Close the browser, walk away, go paragliding, no problem.
You can do better! In my technology life, I find that anything that isn't either on my RSS feed or my Facebook feed gets ignored. So when I find a site, in this case about paragliding, that I'm interested in following, I do my best to find out how to integrate it with either of those two.
I found this afternoon that if you use Google Reader (you really should), you can just Subscribe to the top-most page of this paragliding blog ("http://www.iparaglide.com/paragliding-blog-vancouver/") and GReader will figure out the rest for you.
So now you have no excuse to have not read about the CF-18 fly-by this weekend, or about Melissa's thoughts about boots or flying sans-instructor.
Happy Interneting!
Reader Comments (2)
Craig,
Thanks for the heads up tech tip reminder!
I just scratched one item off my long to do list by adding an easy to use "RSS Paragliding Feed" widget in the right widget column at the bottom right of each page of iParaglide. :)
There are now several ways for users to subscribe to or view the latest paragliding content:
1. Use the contact form and request a membership subscription. We will issue you a user name and password. Once a member logs in using his/her account, they can create a subscription to any page on iParaglide by: first residing on the page they want to subscibe to > then clicking their "Profile" link in the "Admin Bar" at the top right of the screen > Under "Membership Management" > click "Subscribe to Page Updates". Do this for every page you want to be updated on. The advantage of this approach is you will receive email links for all page updates you request, including html pages. This gives user possibility to subscribe to ALL new site content.
2. All dynamic journals and picture galleries, but not html pages, automatically generate RSS feeds that can be subscribed to. Various browsers Safari, Firefox, Google Reader (best) etc automatically detect these feeds and display the RSS icon when viewing a page with an RSS feed configured. Example: Safari shows a grey RSS button to the right of the URL. Click on the button, it turns blue, and you get taken to the RSS feeds URL. Bookmark that in your browser, and voila!: you've subscribed to that particular blog or gallery. Gives second most content subscription ability. Per Craig's post.
3. Use the RSS feed widget in bottom right of each page to most easily subscribe to iParaglide's: Right Site Weather; Paragliding Pilot's Blog; or Icaro Paragliders (new wings news). Most popular blogs only.
4. Even without a members subscription ("pushed" by iParaglide), or setting up any RSS feeds ("pulled" by your browser), you can also conveniently just view our "Paragliding News" widget in top right of each page. It automatically generates hyperlinks to: the most recent weather report; the most recent Pilot blog; the most recent paraglider wing design articles.
Happy reading!
Everyone should want to know what I think about boots, clearly!
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