RSS: What's in it for me?
- 1. 13/ 04 / 10 TechSoup Canada Toronto Net Tuesday RSS: What's in it for me? Marco Campana, Maytree Robyn Kalda, Health Nexus
- 2. What are we doing online? Listening Working Together Providing Information
- 4. The basics “ Really Simple Syndication” RSS in Plain English video: http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
- 5. Dive right in Flickr photo by Will Lion
- 6. Listening Flickr photo by niclindh
- 7. Three Questions to Refine Your Listening Strategy Why are you listening? What are your mission goals? Come up with at least Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information ( link to day-to-day action) Internal Process – how will you organize your listening? http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/02/getting-your-nonprofit-organization-ready-to-listen-.html
- 8. Finding Feeds Where would you normally look for this information? Google Reader recommendations Twitter Google, of course
- 9. Websites
- 11. News sites
- 12. News sites
- 13. News sites
- 14. Journal ToCs
- 15. Google Alerts
- 16. Google News
- 17. Twitter Hashtags
- 18. Twitter Search http:// search.twitter.com /
- 19. Finding Feeds – What's New and Next?
- 20. Working Together Flickr photo by Ryancr
- 21. Twitter
- 22. Flickr contacts
- 24. Diigo links
- 25. Finding the Right Tool So, you’ve got all these great sites and sources and, now, you’re overwhelmed and wondering how to manage it all. Time to find the right tool!
- 26. Finding the Right Tool - Netvibes
- 27. Finding the Right Tool - Bloglines
- 28. Finding the Right Tool - Google Reader http:// reader.google.com
- 29. Better GReader Firefox Add-on
- 30. Better GReader Firefox Add-on
- 31. Finding the Right Tool - iGoogle
- 32. Finding the Right Tool - Feedly Fee dly extension gives Google Reader a magazine-like feel
- 33. Using Google Reader Folders Tags
- 34. Providing Information Flickr photo by enuwy
- 35. Shared items
- 36. Share Any Web Page
- 37. Sharing your tagged items Look for “Manage subscriptions” in tiny blue text in the bottom left corner
- 38. Ways to share tagged items
- 39. Public pages for tags
- 40. Ways to share tagged items Reader2Tweet
- 41. Adding a feed to a website Easy way: Use Google Reader
- 42. Adding a feed to a website Less-easy way: Embed directly If your website uses a CMS such as Drupal, explore your options Some sites (such as Delicious and Diigo) have built special tools to help with this task Or, get a techie
- 44. Sending items to other services
- 45. RSS to Email
- 47. Throwing It All Together
- 48. Useful Resources
Editor's Notes
- #7: Can’t recommend RSS highly enough to anyone who monitors research developments, media, public reaction, or any other sort of information. It saves A LOT of time. It’s not just for blogs -- these days any site that updates regularly tends to have an RSS feed, and we’ll look at a number of different things you can monitor using an RSS reader.