Favorite Lightweight, Inexpensive, Software

Let’s start the series with something I use every single day. I read a lot of blogs and news, from a variety of sources, and have tried many systems and tool to help. For a long time, I used Google Reader, until it was discontinued. Now, I am hooked on Feedly.

Each morning I start the day with a cup of coffee and an iPad. I scan a few news apps, like USA Today and BBC, and then open Feedly. Starting with local news, I try to get through as many sources as I can. When done, I mark everything as read, so the following day only new articles are shown.

When I encounter really interesting articles, I flag them as “save for later”. Feedly will keep a list of these ‘bookmarked’ stories. At some point during the week I typically open Feedly from my Mac, and scan the saved articles – usually things I want to follow up on.

Here are some of the news feeds I have loaded into Feedly, and read each morning.

Local News
• http://www.bizjournals.com/rss/feed/daily/buffalo
• http://www.buffalonews.com/section/rssGen?profileID=1005&profileName=Business
• http://www.rbj.net/rss/daily_report.asp

Project Management
• http://project-management.com/category/articles/feed/
• http://www.baselinemag.com/project-management/
• http://www.cio.com/category/project-management/index.rss
Healthcare
• http://www.healthcareitnews.com/home/feed
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/LifeAsAHealthcareCio?format=xml
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/healthcare-informatics?format=xml

Cloud & Social
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/feed/
• http://www.baselinemag.com/cloud-computing/rss/
• http://www.eweek.com/rss-feeds-50.xml

Technology
• http://www.cioinsight.com/rss.xml
• http://www.information-age.com/rss/news/index.txml
• http://venturebeat.com/category/entrepreneur/feed/

If you would like a complete list of what I have loaded into Feedly, send me a quick e-mail. I would be happy to send you an export file that you can upload into your Feedly.

Terry Courtney
tcourtney@aprelion.com