Want to add some flare to that feed?

Some (ok, most) of our Mixxers are way ahead of the curve when it comes to gadgets, widgets and cool little doodads. So it should come as no surprise that, not so long ago, one of you asked whether or not Mixx integrates with FeedBurner’s FeedFlare. Seems he wanted to add a little more, well, flare, to his feed. (Sorry, we couldn’t resist.) At that time the answer was No. But because we thought it was a great idea—and because we have the most amazing engineers who will do anything to be let out into the daylight every three weeks—we’re happy to say that, as of today, the answer is a resounding Yes!

So now all of you Mixxer bloggers out there can add a little Mixx pizzazz to your RSS Feed. FeedBurner has done an incredible job simplifying the process, but we’ll just run through it quickly so you can get that Mixx flare going as soon as possible.

• Step 1: Log into your FeedBurner account. If you have multiple blogs that you burn through FeedBurner, choose the one that you want to spice up with a little Mixx.
• Step 2: Once you’ve selected the feed (don’t worry, you can add more later), click on the “Optimize” tab at the top of the page (between the Analyze and Publicize tabs).
• Step 3: On the left nav bar, you should see a link for FeedFlare under the Services header. Click this.
• Step 4: In the middle of the page you’ll see a list of the official FeedFlare options. Scroll down until you see Mixx. There will be two check boxes next to Mixx: one for you to add the flare to your feed, the other for you to add the flare to your site.
• Step 5: Since you want to add Mixx flare to your feed, check the box in the feed column. (Of course you can also add any other flare items here, too.) Next you’ll see a preview of what the flare will look like in your feed. You can grab each flare item and rearrange to your hearts content. Of course, if you’ll allow us to play art director for just a moment: Mixx should go first. It just looks better. Ahem.

Once you have it just right, scroll down and click “Save.” And that’s it!

Want to see it in action? Hop over to your feed page, which will look something like: http://feeds.feedburner.com/(your blog name), and at the bottom of each feed item you should see a link to “Add to Mixx.” Click on this to get to the Mixx content submission page—the URL of the blog post should be filled in for you—and then it’s just like a regular Mixx submission: Click “Continue” to go to the last step where you can modify the title, the description, add tags and categories, send it to YourGroups or add it to your public location. Then click “Submit” and you’re done. And this time we mean it.

Have fun and, as always, let us know what you think!

The Mixx Team

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