Dashboard Pragmatics-Feeding a Frenzy #CritLit2010

I have created a Netvibes dashboard of #CritLit2010 feeds here for the MOOC Critical Literacy course run by Stephen Downes and Rita Kop. I highly recommend a privately customised version.
I was unable to create a ‘dashboard wizard’ feed search, so I created a new dashboard under ‘manage dashboards’ and then dragged and dropped my tabs later in order to make it publicly viewable today-it turns out you can just share, copy, paste these, so that you have both a private page view and a public page view of your tabs. Previously I used my public page as a food trend search page because I have an educational food trend blog-and I’ve linked to it in there.

Unfortunately I was unable so far to create a #hashtag search using a ‘dashboard wizard’ which might be easiest? The button wouldn’t enable it to sync? See diagram below. Please try it and show me if it works?

This post has also enabled me to use Skitch a screen grabbing and presentation type software for the first time. After account setup I began inside my manage dashboard ‘create new’. The ready made tabs I cleared and created 4 clean new tabs by pressing the + sign.

Both the Course Feed and CritLitBlogger feed tabs were created by using the Add content button, see below screen.

To add blog/course feeds, very easy see below screen-’add content’ button drops down to ‘add feeds’. I mostly just used actual blog urls in the text box but some rss. I’m sorry if I’ve missed a critlit blogger tell me if you want to be added? In the screen view below I only dragged 1 rss feed from each blog. You can see that Benjamin’s feed results were 4 (comments, both atom and rss feeds).

For the social media feeds I added widgets.

I’m wondering if its possible to edit this please John Mak in order to gain access to the Facebook Connectivist group discussion?

For the Web tab I found Web Search widget. You could add blog search?

You are much better off creating your feed page ‘private‘. This one is now my public page but unfortunately ‘Reader View’ is not enabled. Reader view is beautiful, see below! Much easier each tab category accessible from a sidebar with time line ‘Today’, ‘yesterday’ etc. See below screen-it’s a different template.

Please tell me anything you discover about this interface. Of course you can choose your own template design.

I’ve just added a ‘wall’ feature so that people can comment directly on this public site. I’ve since found that I can copy paste these tabs holus bolus into my private page view where I can take advantage of the ‘reader view’. If I could find a way that others could copy paste them too?