Aurora Comms Blog

Monitor sidewikis on your whole domain (phew!)

Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by neilcrump in Communications, Web 2.0

The Aurora team has written about the Google sidewiki on this blog and in the UK trade media in the last few months.

In my Aurora blog post on 14 October I wrote…

… that Google released the sidewiki gadget with no way to monitor it (with something like Google Alerts).  This means that to check if people have filed an entry against any page on your site, you have to (with the sidewiki gadget enabled) check every page individually!!!  I am sure that Google (or some other techie folk) will come up with a system to help the monitoring of this at some point quite soon.

A week or so ago Google released the code that allows the world to follow sidewikis on pages for a whole domain.  This code will be the basis of the aforementioned techie folk building beautiful looking (and probably expensive) monitoring tools.

Here is the code that you can put into your Google reader (or similar) for free to keep an eye on sidewikis:

http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/domainpath/www.YOURDOMAIN.com%2F/default?sortorder=updated&includeLessUseful=true

Just change the YOURDOMAIN to your domain name and drop the www bit if you don’t use that in your web address.  Beats needing to check every page continually.

Tags: aurora, pharma & sidewikis, sidewikis