This week's adventure proved to be a journey of excitement, frustration, enlightenment, and discovery. I had not explored aggregating pages prior to this week. I was pleasantly surprised at how helpful having all of your social media, links, feeds, and more in one place. My exploration began with Netvibes, which proved to be a little more difficult to navigate than I expected. I was able to set up my page, however, I continue to experience errors stating that the page cannot load at this time. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the versatile customization features it has. My next exploration was of Protopages, which has become my number 1 pick for aggregating pages. I can easily upload feeds, web pages, and more with basically one click (copy & paste) of the url. I am finding myself almost addicted to adding content to my pages, and rearranging content. The last tool I explored was iGoogle. It too, was very easy to add content to, however I feel comfortable with Protopages.
Once I watched several YouTube videos and read a few reviews on which tool to use, I was able to place content on my page with ease. If you are new to the concept, it does take some getting use to.
All of the tools allow you to add a variety of different content such as: web pages, RSS feeds of all kinds, and videos. Which is what makes using aggregated pages a must for those who have several social media or portals to juggle between. It is also very useful in organizing information for a given topic in one place for easy access to resources.
I plan on continuing my exploration of the uses for aggregated pages, so that I can create a page that will be both a professional and educational resource.
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