dash1291

A community blog has to be updated with appropriate content to keep their readers in sync about what happens inside a community. But, when members of a community are busy with their other/personal projects, there is no time to post something on the community’s blog exclusively. 
Community News Aggregator plugin gives a community blog, power to synchronize their content with their members’ blog content. It lets the blog admins to update their blogs for latest feeds from the blogs configured by their registered members.
NOTE: A member who has configured its blog with this plugin can mark the posts for sync by posting it to a category name same as the community label.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Members/Readers registered as Subscribers can configure their WordPress or Blogger blogs for giving in updates.</li>
<li>Manual Update to be used by Blog Admins in the Admin Panel.</li>
<li>Community Settings(for setting Community Label)</li>
<li>The aggregated blog posts are created in the community blog’s post database with a ‘pending’ status. The admin can either publish it or delete it.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
For the admins, its important to set the Community Label in the Community News Aggregator->Settings page in the admin panel for aggregation. Set it to nothing for no aggregation.

Community News Aggregator

A plugin for importing external content from members' blogs to a community blog.

mhawksey

TwitterPad is an automatic RSS-to-page/post plugin designed to integrate with <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a>. This plugin allows the user to add a number of custom search strings from <a href="http://search.twitter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">search.twitter.com</a> specifying which page (or a new post) new tweets should be added to.
For example, using ‘from:{yourtwittername} #tp’ I can collect all of my tweets which have been tagged #tp. You are also not just limited to collecting your own tweets, any search string will work.
The plugin was designed to automatically collect tweets I wanted to save for future reference (a tweet pad) and the page you collect tweets to doesn’t have to be public. The plugin allows you to update any page in your blog, even if it is private.
Tweets are by default automatically collected once a day the newest appears to the top of the page. There is an option to update more often if required. <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/googlewavetips/" rel="nofollow ugc">Here is an example of TwitterPad in use</a>.
NEW – TwitterPad v1.3 now has the option of digesting tweets as a new post.
NEW – TwitterPad v1.3.1 now has the option of manipulating twitter RSS feeds with other services like Yahoo Pipes.
Tweet feature requests with the #twpadreq

TwitterPad

TwitterPad allows twitter users to automatically collect tweets using custom search strings which are added to a specified page or as a new blog post

Community News Aggregator vs TwitterPad