Here is a new episode in our continuing series of video guides. In this guide, our hero (Pito) shows how efficiently you can collect information from an article to subscribe to six or seven bloggers mentioned.

Just a quick note. BlogBridge was recently recommended by a very interesting site, “Digital Delights for Digital Learners” This site collects links for Learning and Development and is curated by Ana Cristina Pratas. She has lots of other interesting pointers on her site.

The popular site web advantage.net has an article called “30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use” : which says:

“Here’s a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems.  Each tool mentioned below has unique strengths, and none are exactly like any other.  Whether you’re just looking to augment your personal blog with some free tools, or are seriously considering a paid content curation platform for your business, you’re likely to find a useful solution in the list below.” (from 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use

They recommend BlogBridge with the following note:

“A tool for true info-junkies who want a better way to wrangle all their RSS feeds from blogs and news into one pretty cool organizer. An easy to use/easy to manage way of trawling through hundreds of blogs and pulling out the best nuggets.”

Thanks!

A “BlogBridge Visual Guide” explaining how to use Twitter in BlogBridge. From the Guide:

“Built right into BlogBridge is the ability to post to twitter. But this is not just another twitter client. BlogBridge tries to make your read-post-comment-read cycle most efficient.

While you are scanning through blogs just one click takes you to a twitter post, ready with the link to the article you are referencing. Easy!”

SocialCompare is a very cool social site that allows users to collaborate on a head to head comparison of a series of tools.

A recent comparison was between a series of “Curation Platforms” and BlogBridge is there among all the competitors that you may or may not have heard of. I strongly encourage you to take a look at the site and post your opinions and ratings.

From the site:

“Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it.

This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: “Le Guide de la Curation”. For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/

This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content :http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3

You are free to update this comparison and rate your favorite tools! “

Please visit the site and let the world know your opinion!

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.” — Admiral Jim Stockdale”

“Let’s just say, blogbridge rocks and google reader makes me want to chuck my netbook out the window. There’s seriously no comparison.” (from BlogBridge vs. Google Reader)

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I have exciting news. We have released a new beta build of BlogBridge with IMO awesome new twitter support. This is bringing us another step to being the ultimate personal social media dashboard.

You can try the new features without perturbing your normal BlogBridge use by simply clicking on the link to the BlogBridge Weekly Release. Follow the steps and you will be taken through the installation steps. N.B. None of your feeds will automatically come over. This is a separate release with its own sync database.

It is as if you were installing BlogBridge on a different computer. So all you need to do is to go to the Tools menu, choose BlogBridge Service… and set up your email and password there, and do a sync.

To find the new stuff, look here:

1. Choose Preferences, and look at the Twitter Tab. You will find full authentication support to connect BlogBridge to your Twitter account.
2. Create SmartFeed: Choose Twitter Search. You can create three types of Twitter Feed:
   1. A feed of all the tweets that match a specific twitter query,
   2. A feed of all the tweets that are on your own timeline
   3. And coolest of all IMO, a feed of all the tweets from a user’s (like your own) twitter list
3. While you are looking at any item in BlogBridge, choose the Article/TweetThis menu item. You can tweet directly from BlogBridge. You may include a link or the full text of a an item you are looking at.
4. Within any Twitter Feed (as described in (2) above) you see the Tweets requested. 
   1. Hover over a name and you will see information about the user.
   2. Click on Reply to directly reply to the tweet in Twitter
   3. Coolest: Click on Full Text (if you see the button) to see the page that the tweet was mentioning, right there before your eyes.

That is all for now. I wanted to make a brief announcement to get people going but there will be more detailed instructions and help soon.

As always please send your comments, and especially your bug reports to support@blogbridge.com

Our next release of BlogBridge should be coming out soon. One of the major new features is in the area of our Twitter support. Wait, you didn’t know we support Twitter?

We are working hard to make BlogBridge the ultimate social media cockpit. Many of our customers monitor their social media impact by watching what is going on in the blogosphere, in the main stream media, on twitter and on Facebook. (Or they have interns doing it for them. ) And then when they want to join the conversation, they spin up yet another tool to actually be heard.

Our view is that it needn’t be that hard. BlogBridge is morphing into a unified tool that allows you to follow all your social media streams and instantly respond to one or more of them, with minimal effort and maximal efficiency.

One step in that direction is our new integrated support for Twitter, for Twitter Lists as well as augmented viewing of tweets. Just check it out yourself:

Use the Cleanup Wizard to surgically clean up BlogBridge. The interface makes it clear: you can delete articles older than a certain age,  or just so a certain feed does not have more than a certain number of articles, while protecting if you want, unread and pinned articles. You can delete whole feeds that you have not looked at in a while or that have been dead for a while. There are actually even more options to allow you to easily control what BlogBridge keeps and what it throws out. Check the Cleanup Wizard command in the BlogBridge Tools menu and let us know what you think!