LeAnn Suchy, Metronet

MILI 2011-2012

Online Productivity:RSS Feeds & Google

Reader

News sitesNewspapersMagazinesBlogsVideo sitesEven…

Websites for TV listings, movie and book reviews

Websites for products, like Amazon

How many sites do you visit to find or review/watch/read information?

Forrester Research Annual Online Habits Report: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/files/understanding-the-changing-needs-of-the-us-online-consumer_2010.

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Forrester Research Annual Online Habits Report: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/files/understanding-the-changing-needs-of-the-us-online-consumer_2010.

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News sitesNewspapersMagazinesBlogsVideo sitesEven…

Websites for TV listings, movie and book reviews

Websites for products, like Amazon

If these are the types of sites you regularly visit…

You can save so much more time by

subscribing to their RSS feeds instead of visiting

all of their websites!

What are RSS feeds?

RSS = Really Simple Syndication

A way to get information to you instead of you going out to get the information

Subscribe to RSS feeds in an RSS Reader –

Google Reader

You visit Google Reader to read items, not the

websites.

RSS feeds save me time. The websites I check

are all in one location.

Go over suggested blogs & websites you may want to follow

Show you how to get RSS feeds into Google Reader

Go over how to use & organize Google Reader

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