2. What’s all about
Using RSS feeds to set up a personal
home page
– to ‘read’ the web in a different way
– to save time when looking for new
content
It’s the first thing I check in the morning –
also before my mailbox!
Allows me keep on top of the news and
the information I need to know for my
work and my interests
3. RSS what?!
Really Simple Syndication
A publishing format
that lets you to
subscribe to and
receive latest
updates from your
favourite blogs and
sites all from within
a single newsreader
program
4. RSS – A better definition…
Ready for some stories!
5. Key functions it supports
Managing your information flow, to keep
track of latest updates from your
favourites sources
Working more efficiently by subscribing to
feeds and see what’s new from multiple
sources, in one single interface
Monitoring what the media is saying about
your project/programme/organization
6. Example: Monitoring the media
You can subscribe to keywords searched
in Google News
New stories will come up in Google
Reader
7. How to use it
Create an account
– Google Reader or Netvibes
• Google reader as personal home page
• Netvibes good to create public home
pages
Subscribe to feeds
– Two clicks; by url
Organize your content
– Using tags and folders; in tabs
17. Why Feedly?
Giving Google Reader a nicer interface
– Magazine style
Importing Twitter and Facebook content
Leveraging on 'social engagement', to see
on your front page the most popular items
from your sources
Great mobile Apps – looking even better
than the desktop version!
19. Hands on exercise
Go to http://www.google.com/ig
– Log in with your own username and
password;
Or
Create an account at http://netvibes.com
Find 3/5 sites or blogs that you use daily
– If RSS is available, subscribe to it
Add one or two gadgets
Netvibes is another tool to read RSS feeds. You can have a personal page and also set up public pages. This is very useful for teams for examples, or to collect social media outputs from an event, of to reflect multiple voices from the different actors you work with.
To add new content to Netvibes, simply create a new dashboard, then click add content and paste the feed address – similar as you do in Google Reader when adding by url