Gloria Ferris

For the past few days, I’ve been using a free service called FEEDblitz, and it really cuts down on the amount of time I need to devote to monitoring my favorite blogs. Here’s an excerpt of what they say About themselves:

FeedBlitz is a service that monitors blogs, RSS feeds and Web URLs to provide greater reach for feed publishers. FeedBlitz takes all the headache out of converting feed and blog updates into email digests, delivered daily to subscribers’ inboxes. FeedBlitz manages subscriptions, circulation tracking, testing, and is compatible with all major blogging platforms and services such as Blogger, Typepad and FeedBurner. Unlike other blogmail services, FeedBlitz is reliable, scalable and fully supported. No betas, wish lists or road map items here. You’re in production, and so is FeedBlitz.

FeedBlitz also enables end users to monitor any feed or blog, anonymously if they wish, regardless of whether the publisher of that feed is using FeedBlitz. FeedBlitz therefore provides a simple way for users to receive updates from their trusted sources using a familiar and ubiquitous medium – email.

FeedBlitz is privately held and managed from metro Boston, Massachusetts

Now, I suspect things are going to be moving quite fast around here this year, so I’m recommending you use FEEDblitz to keep track of my blog and others you think are critical to forming the dialogue here in Cleveland and in Ohio as to what our lives are going to look like and be like now and in the future. It’s best to use http://www.gloriaferris.net instead of the shorter http://gloriaferris.net when it comes to registering my blog with FEEDblitz, and for what reason, I do not know.

It’s all about speed and connectivity, and it’s all beginning right here, right now. In my campaign last year, I wasn’t just whistling Dixie when I said, “It all begins in Ward 15.” We’re all stakeholders, and we know it, and we’re doing something about it.