Thing #9: Locate some Marketing blogs

Now that you have your newsreader setup, you can begin adding other newsfeeds that interest you. There are several ways that you can locate newsfeeds:

• When visiting your favourite websites, look for news feed icons that indicate the website provides it. Often a feed icon will be displayed somewhere in the navigation bar of the site.
  
  
• Use Google Reader's search tool - just click on the "Add a subscription" button in Google Reader, then get searching!
  


• Find a reliable list of useful blogs. You might want to take a look at Julian Cole's Top 50 Australian Marketing Blogs - Julian completed his honours at Monash a couple of years ago, and is now working in a digital agency in Sydney.
  


• Use other search tools to find feeds, such as Technorati or Syndic8.
  

Discovery Exercise:

Explore some of the search tools above, find some relevant news feeds, and add them to your reader. Then, create a blog post about your experience. Which method was easiest to find relevant feeds? Did you find other search tools that were useful? Which feeds appear to be of interest, that you can recommend for others?