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4 Easy Steps To Create Quality Content For Inbound Marketing Using Your Whole Team

Inbound marketing is a fantastic way to market your startup. You create evangelists from your current customer base, provide new and interesting content to send clients and prospects using newsletters, as well as increasing your ranking for particular keywords on search engines. If inbound...

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Cronycle Reader iPad App; Creating Collections with Safari

Even though the Cronycle Reader iPad app may not have the same ‘collection creating power’ as the web app- this does not mean you cannot create collections with your favourite sources, using Safari.

By using the share feature in Safari, you can use Cronycle to create a collection. After selecting what sources you want to use in the collection- you will then find the collection waiting for you in the Cronycle reader app.

Here is a video walking through the steps.

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New Feature: Search Through Sources.

This new feature on Cronycle allows you to search through your sources (RSS or Twitter) when creating a new collection.

This makes it easy to find a specific piece of content in the masses.

Here’s a short video over going the new feature.

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How Cronycle Can Help a University Student.

We gave a Cronycle Account to a student at Bristol University to see how Cronycle can help her out at home and school. After using it for a month we were keen to find out her thoughts so we asked a bunch of questions to find out more. 

How has Cronycle been helping you so far?

“As a joint honours student it’s quite hard to separate my maths side from my philosophy side and keep my two subjects separate. Cronycle helps me break apart the two subjects and find relevant news about the subjects.”

How easy has it been to find your way around Cronycle?

“Cronycle is as easy to navigate as any other app someone could put in front of me, I found it relatively straight forward and the online video tutorials were really good. I was confident with managing my sources and following new collections from other Cronycle users. “

How did you find creating Collections?

“Quite fun really- having to think about the different elements of my life, such as my hobbies, school work and my personal life was quite interesting to do. Then colour coding the collections was the icing on the cake.”

Did you find the iPad app easy to use?

“yeah, just as easy as the web. Easy to navigate. It also came into it’s own league when taking it into lectures. Being able to see all the content I need to see right in front of me in an organised way is very useful”

Did you find any new interesting content within the public collections?

“I found out more about my favourite bands and found some new artists to listen too as well. I also found the latest news and deals from the clubs and bars around Bristol, with the Bristol Nightlife collection.”

Would you recommend Cronycle to your peers?

“Yes, definitely. Cronycle has really helped me so far, and I’m sure I’ll carry on using it.“

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Cronycle (pro) New Feature: Commenting

New feature added to Cronycle (pro).

For those of you who have used Cronycle recently, you may have noticed a new feature.

You can now comment on the articles within your Cronycle collections.

Comment your opinions on any topic, or on specific pieces of text within the article.

Invite your fellow Cronycle users to comment on your collections, so you can see what they think, and reply to their comments.

Here’s a video walking through the features of ‘Commenting’

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Information Overload, 90% Crap. Event 24th February

In London on February 24th, thinking-persons aggregator The Browser and content filtering service Cronycle are hosting a panel discussion about information overload.

The title of the discussion is: “90% Crap”.  Our discussants will share ideas about how and where to find the best writing online.

The panel will include — Anatole Kaletsky, columnist and economist — Bill Emmott, editor and film-maker — Dayo Forster, international editor of The Browser

After the discussion we will be unveiling a new partnership between Cronycle and The Browser.

To attend, just send an email to [email protected] saying “yes” in the subject line.

Place: The Forge & Co, 154-158 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 Date: Tuesday February 24th Time: Drinks from 6pm; discussion from 6.30pm (until 7.30pm)    

http://thebrowser.com http://cronycle.com

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A Walkthrough of the new Cronycle Reader App

If you read the last blog post, you would have learnt about our new Ipad app. This post will go over how to navigate the app and use it's new features. 

Discover-

From the Discover Section of the app you can view all of the public collections from other Cronycle users. Swipe from the right side of the screen to view the different categories of collections, for example; Tech, Business, Design and News. From the Discover section if you see a collection that catches your eye, you can add it ‘MyCronycle’

MyCronycle-

My Cronycle  where you will find your own collections as well as the collections that you have followed from the discover page. From here, a swipe from the right hand side of the screen, will bring up a list of all your collections, so you can quickly and easily find just what you’re looking for.

How to Favourite-

See an Article you like? Add it to your favourites so you can easily find it again later. To favourite something, just press on the outline of a star- this can be done from within the collection or using long pressure gesture; hold your finger down on the article and select the star.

How to Navigate-

Swiping from the left hand side of the screen, or pressing the hamburger menu in the top left corner, opens up the main menu, from which you can login or out, access the Discover page, MyCronycle and Favourites.

Swiping from the right hand side of the screen will open a list of categories, or collections, dependent on what page you’re on.

Sharing your Content

Much like favouriting, sharing a piece of content can be done within the article itself or by using long pressure gesture.

This Video will walk through the navigation of the app as well as how to add collections to ‘MyCronycle’ and favouriting specific articles.

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2014's Best Collections

A look at the best Collections from 2014.

By Joe Gauntlett

  2014 was a great year for Cronycle, with many fun, interesting and useful collections popping up in our public collections area. Here are the top five collections of 2014, as judged by Popularity.

1. Bluffer’s by Bluffer's- http://cron.link/LMgOeSc

Bluffer’s Collection is full of useful, fun and knowledgeable links. All links come straight from the Bluffers website, meaning the collection is a refreshing and easier way to view the website.

2. Photography by Joe Gauntlett- http://cron.link/ynxx6Dw

  The Photography collection provides a regularly updated stream of pictures from various different art websites and photography blogs.

3. Cooking & Baking by Anika- http://cron.link/Qcd9K5w

  The best collection if you’re looking for inspiration on what to cook. Filled with recipes from all around the world.  

  4. Smartwatch by Andurance Ventures- http://cron.link/odcLgiQ

  Wearable technology is one of the fastest growing markets, with almost every big name in technology releasing it’s own model. This Collection keeps on top of all the latest releases and news about smart watches.

5.Interior design by Tara Victoria-  http://cron.link/S3j6S0w

  The perfect collection if you’re planning on redecorating. With content being pulled in from the top interior design blogs and websites, you’ll never be short on ideas.