Calling all Alfresco bloggers!

The other day, a member of the Alfresco community pointed out to me that while it is great we have so many people blogging on Alfresco topics–from authors both inside and outside the company–there isn’t a single aggregated feed of all of those valuable sources of information. I completely agree.

While we do have the blogs page, the technology we’re using to produce that is a bit cumbersome to keep updated. And that feed is mostly Alfresco employees. We also recently launched www.socialcontent.com, but that does not have links to a universal blog roll either.

To address this, I’ve created several new feeds in Yahoo Pipes. There’s one feed for each of the following:

This should let you subscribe to specific feeds according to your needs.

Now, there’s no way I got everyone on my first pass. If I missed your blog, no worries! The whole point of using Pipes is to make it easier to maintain. To get listed, just shoot me an email with your ATOM feed and which bucket you belong in or respond to this blog post with the same and I’ll add you at my next opportunity.

At some point, hopefully in the near future, we’ll clean up blogs.alfresco.com with a new look-and-feel and we’ll switch the data source to use these feeds. Until then, add one or more of these to your feed reader and enjoy.

12 comments

  1. Jan says:

    I like the idea of you playing arround with Yahoo Pipes. I’ve got some pipes setup for myself and indeed it is a good way to harvest specific content. But why not taking it a step further and bringing these pipes straight into Alfresco and use the Alfresco Magic to turn the content into something more valuable by adding meta-data, make them searchable, put them in a review workflow, republish or archive it ? I do believe that the “social” strenght of Alfresco could be Alfresco as a collector of social content where it can be tagged commented, saved, re-organized and re-distributed in or out the organization.

  2. jpotts says:

    I like this idea. The process of requesting a new entry in the feed, routing that for approval, and adding the entry could be automated with an Alfresco workflow as well. Hmm, I smell the need for a Yahoo Pipes integration for Alfresco as a community-driven open source project!

    Jeff

  3. jpotts says:

    Snig, Skuro, and Peter,

    I’ve added you to the aggregated Alfresco Community blog feed. Thanks for submitting!

    Jeff

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