At presentation camp I met Stowe Boyd. Stowe easily blogs more than 20 times a day. I asked Stowe how he kept up to date with new happenings particularly since I have been alternating between feeling mighty burned out by my Google reader or spending hours screening blog posts I should paying attention to. Stowe told me that his reading habits have significantly changed in the last year since he has started using some amazing reading tools. Now he almost never allocates separate time for blog reading or visits any RSS readers.

Highly curious I asked Stowe for his top 3 blog reading management tools. Here are the two I’ve been using since then.

Microplaza

Microplaza is a website helps you manage websites that have trended as high retweets. They have a public timeline on their page. But more excitingly Microplaza lets you see sites that have trended as high retweets among the friends you follow. You can also separate tweeted sites by tribe, but this seemed to take too much effort to set up.

Snackr

Snackr is a Adobe Air desktop tool that gives you a ticker with blog posts. Keep this on as you work or when you want to read blogs and only click to open the posts that interest you. This has been an amazing time saver. One quick digression to get noticed bloggers probably need even more exciting titles then ever.

Try these out and let me know what you think of them!

In the future I will be writing on my tools I love that help me with my blog posting. Stay tuned!

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