On the Friday afternoon before last fall’s AAUW NC meeting, several of us met at the hotel and went over the ins and outs of RSS. I haven’t heard from too many of you that you’re really using RSS, so this is just an encouraging message to keep your antenna up and consider adding the “reading of RSS feeds” to the other information sources you’re watching.
In the last few weeks, IE 7 has entered “official release” status (though I’ll admit I’ve resisted installing it) and I’ve also become aware of the fabulous support that personalized Google Home Pages offer for reading news. If you’d like to see a demonstration of how to use these tools, let me know — we could set up a web conference or perhaps squeeze in another demo during the free (hah!) time at the Winston-Salem convention.
I’m hoping to put up a document with more complete info on using IE7 or Google Home Page, but, in the meantime, you can refer to the info IÂ posted earlier. I can also recommend a summary referenced in a talk I heard today: 10 Steps to RSStocracy.
Great article. RSS feeds are so useful, and yet so few people are using them. Sometimes it’s easier to learn by seeing an example, which is why I created a few video tutorials to help people with this. See the following:
What is RSS?
How to add an RSS feed to IE7
How to add an RSS feed to Firefox
If we keep putting out the good word, hopefully more people will start using all these great tools that are available on the web.
That was an inspiration. For an AAUW specific video (of subscribing to the What’s new at AAUW news — see the list at the right) with a personalized Google home page, see
http://wiki.bbvx.org/index.php?title=Training_Videos
And do check out RSS in plain English (now with a transcript and translations to other languages).
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