rss: what's in it for me?

13/04/10

TechSoup Canada Toronto Net Tuesday

RSS: What's in it for me?

Marco Campana, Maytree

Robyn Kalda, Health Nexus

What are we doing online?

• Listening

• Working Together

• Providing Information

The basics

• “Really Simple Syndication”

• RSS in Plain English video:http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Dive right in

Flickr photo by Will Lion

Listening

Flickr photo by niclindh

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

Finding Feeds

• Where would you normally look for this information?

• Google Reader recommendations

• Twitter

• Google, of course

Websites

WatchThatPage.com

News sites

News sites

News sites

Journal ToCs

Google Alerts

Google News

Twitter Hashtags

Twitter Search

http://search.twitter.com/

Finding Feeds – What's New and Next?

Working Together

Flickr photo by Ryancr

Twitter

Flickr contacts

Delicious network

Diigo links

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!

Finding the Right Tool - Netvibes

Finding the Right Tool - Bloglines

Finding the Right Tool - Google Reader

http://reader.google.com

Better GReader Firefox Add-on

Better GReader Firefox Add-on

Finding the Right Tool - iGoogle

Finding the Right Tool - Feedly• Feedly extension gives Google Reader a

magazine-like feel

Using Google Reader

• Folders

• Tags

Providing Information

Flickr photo by enuwy

Shared items

Share Any Web Page

Sharing your tagged items

Look for “Manage subscriptions” in tiny blue text in the bottom left corner

Ways to share tagged items

Public pages for tags

Ways to share tagged items

Reader2Tweet

Adding a feed to a websiteEasy way: Use Google Reader

Adding a feed to a websiteLess-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

Importing and Exporting

Sending items to other services

RSS to Email

Throwing It All Together

Useful Resources