Getting Online Information

to Come to You

Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University

Twitter: @aafromaa

John Dorner, North Carolina State University

Twitter: @jdorner

NACAA July 2012

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What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication

A way that information is syndicated

Behind the scenes scripting/language

With RSS, you can subscribe to the 'news feeds' of a

web site as they are posted.

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Why use RSS?

Blogs

News

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Why use RSS?

Blogs

News

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Look for the feed icon

www.ag.ndsu.edu/

workingdifferently

cnn.com

nacaa.com/positions MSIE Toolbar

Google Chrome Location Panel

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Getting feeds

Google Reader - http://reader.google.com

iGoogle - http://igoogle.com

MyYahoo! - http://my.yahoo.com

Internet Explorer

Outlook

Firefox Live Bookmarks

MANY others

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Google Reader example http://reader.google.com

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Google Reader example http://reader.google.com

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Show examples

Use GR's "subscribe/search button"

http://www.cnn.com/ and click on "RSS Feeds"

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/AgPhD/

Wikipedia - revision

history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beef&action=history

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ittotd/

Blogs

http://blogs.extension.org/mastergardener/

http://purduephil.wordpress.com/

http://nacaa.com/positions/

Podcasts - http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/workingdifferently/working-differently-

in-extension-podcast

Scoop.it - http://www.scoop.it/t/workingdifferently

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Getting Online Information

to Come to You

Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University

Twitter: @aafromaa

John Dorner, North Carolina State University

Twitter: @jdorner

NACAA July 2012

Abstract

Today we face a problem, not of information scarcity, but an over abundance of

information. Getting useful online information to flow to you is critical to keep pace with

the explosion of online knowledge.

We often find reliable and interesting sources of information, but find it difficult to keep

returning to see what’s been posted recently. RSS feeds and feed readers help deliver

up-to-date content from the sources you choose. This session will explain what an RSS

feed is, and how you can use a feed reader to aggregate all these updates in one, easy

to read, place - and keep them out of your inbox.

In this session, we will give examples of typical feeds an educator might want to keep up

with.