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RSS is really your friend

NCE Social Media

RSS - Really Simple Syndication, can be a great time saver. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs.

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Want a peak at my RSS: Here it is!

Amy Sample Ward

I’m overwhelmed daily, just like everyone else, by the amount of information that’s available from, for and about our sector of technology and social benefit. So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS. What’s in my brain, can be in yours!

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Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email

Robert Weiner

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks: I like to get information by email. And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. I want information to come to me -- I don't want to seek it out. I prefer listserves over online forums and email to IM.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I'd also cover stretching and RSI and how to avoid it.(in

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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Android, iOS, Web) is like a personal web desktop for your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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Topic-Based RSS Search LazyFeed Opens to the Public

Wild Apricot

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. Video RSS search. Now, as of August 25, LazyFeed is available to the public.

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing. Information gathering ???Less s broader-based than simply getting a specific piece of information. Photo by Lynetter. Finding ???Looking

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