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13/ 04 / 10 TechSoup Canada Toronto Net Tuesday RSS: What's in it for me? Marco Campana, Maytree Robyn Kalda, Health Nexus

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What are we doing online? <ul><li>Listening </li></ul><ul><li>Working Together </li></ul><ul><li>Providing Information </li></ul>

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The basics <ul><li>“ Really Simple Syndication” </li></ul><ul><li>RSS in Plain English video: http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english </li></ul>

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Dive right in Flickr photo by Will Lion

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Listening Flickr photo by niclindh

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Three Questions to Refine Your Listening Strategy <ul><li>Why are you listening? What are your mission goals? </li></ul><ul><li>Come up with at least Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information ( link to day-to-day action) </li></ul><ul><li>Internal Process – how will you organize your listening? </li></ul><ul><li>http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/02/getting-your-nonprofit-organization-ready-to-listen-.html </li></ul>

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Finding Feeds <ul><li>Where would you normally look for this information? </li></ul><ul><li>Google Reader recommendations </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter </li></ul><ul><li>Google, of course </li></ul>

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Websites

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WatchThatPage.com

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News sites

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News sites

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News sites

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Journal ToCs

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Google Alerts

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Google News

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Twitter Hashtags

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Twitter Search http:// search.twitter.com /

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Finding Feeds – What's New and Next?

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Working Together Flickr photo by Ryancr

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Twitter

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Flickr contacts

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Delicious network

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Diigo links

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Finding the Right Tool <ul><li>So, you’ve got all these great sites and sources and, now, you’re overwhelmed and wondering how to manage it all. </li></ul><ul><li>Time to find the right tool! </li></ul>

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Finding the Right Tool - Netvibes

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Finding the Right Tool - Bloglines

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Finding the Right Tool - Google Reader http:// reader.google.com

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Better GReader Firefox Add-on

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Better GReader Firefox Add-on

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Finding the Right Tool - iGoogle

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Finding the Right Tool - Feedly <ul><li>Fee dly extension gives Google Reader a magazine-like feel </li></ul>

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Using Google Reader <ul><li>Folders </li></ul><ul><li>Tags </li></ul>

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Providing Information Flickr photo by enuwy

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Shared items

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Share Any Web Page

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Sharing your tagged items Look for “Manage subscriptions” in tiny blue text in the bottom left corner

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Ways to share tagged items

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Public pages for tags

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Ways to share tagged items Reader2Tweet

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Adding a feed to a website Easy way: Use Google Reader

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Adding a feed to a website Less-easy way: Embed directly <ul><li>If your website uses a CMS such as Drupal, explore your options </li></ul><ul><li>Some sites (such as Delicious and Diigo) have built special tools to help with this task </li></ul><ul><li>Or, get a techie </li></ul>

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Importing and Exporting

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Sending items to other services

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RSS to Email

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Throwing It All Together

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Useful Resources