Categories: Articles

Newsclip Mobile RSS Reader Working Just Fine

For the past little while I have been grappling with Berry Bloglines – which was supposed to be an RSS reader for the Blackberry that grabs your Bloglines feeds. I kept getting a time-out or error message. A friend (thanks Marc) turned me on to Newsclip, which is a paid service that is only a couple of bucks per month.
I love Newsclip.
I love having all of my emails and my important feeds with me wherever I go. Just today, I was waiting for an order in a store and was quickly able to read a couple of posts that I had saved.
I wasn’t this happy when I first downloaded Newsclip. The site says that it can grab the feeds directly from Bloglines… this was not working for me, but I did export the data file from Bloglines and simply cut and paste the main feeds that I would want on-the-go with me into Newsclip… not exactly the optimal solution if you have hundreds of feeds, but I parsed it down to the real time-sensitive and critical ones.
It was very liberating. Having my Blackberry has relieved a ton of stress from my life. I no longer feel like I have to rush to the office or home to review emails. Now, with Newsclip, I really feel in touch with what’s happening in the content world as well.
There is tons of functionality that I would love to see integrated into future versions of Newsclip, but it’s working fine right now and having Blackberry access to Blogs, news and other goodies is very empowering.
It also got me thinking about today’s PR professional and who, if any, are really using this to monitor their clients? After living with Newsclip for the past couple of days, I can’t imagine anyone in the public relations world not having a tool like this.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.