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RSS: How Can It Help Me?: Kirsten Smith, MLIS

Kirsten's presentation of RSS feeds and how you use them as an "alert" service. Office training session, October. 2011.

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RSS: How Can It Help Me?: Kirsten Smith, MLIS

Kirsten's presentation of RSS feeds and how you use them as an "alert" service. Office training session, October. 2011.

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RSS: how can it help me?

Kirsten Smith, MLIS


October 2011

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What it is
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication It has been around for about 17 years An RSS feed allows you to subscribe to a website/blog to receive automatic updates to one place Main difference from email - no spam
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What it does

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Where it is
Websites want you to know about new content Look for the logo

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Types of readers
A separate application - Newsfire A browser based reader - Google Reader; myYahoo! Advantage of web based reader - it goes where ever you do

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Google Reader

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Subscription management

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My Yahoo!

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Bloglines

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Feedly

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Have run out of stuff to say


This the part where I says thanks and any questions?

@kismith Facebook/postmedianews

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