rss: what's in it for me?
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What can I do with RSS? Why should I bother? Intended for the not-very-techie and the somewhat-techie, this session will give a quick overview of some of the many uses of RSS, from vastly expanding and speeding up your information scan to quickly re-purposing online information. We'll focus on Google Reader and its many uses, but will touch on a variety of other tools as well.TRANSCRIPT
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
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
• 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
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
