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Making RSS Work for YOU
Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.
com
Teach42.com/Advanced-RSS
What is RSS?Real Simple Syndication
RSS feeds provide web content in a specific format that allows
sites and software to republish the information in
new ways
Breaking it down
Same data, different look
Where do you find RSS?
Finding the Feed
With your browser
Ways people can subscribe
•Aggregator
•Email Apps•Browser•My Yahoo•Inbox
Optimizing your feed
Why you should burn your feeds
Adding it to your site
Fire up your Feeds•If you don’t have an aggregator, register at Bloglines.com•Find the RSS feed for your site•Register at Feedburner.com•Point readers to your new feed
•Put a chicklet in your blog’s sidebar•Copy and paste the code from Publicize > Chicklet Chooser
•Adjust the hidden link to your feed in your site’s header
•Look for lines starting with <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml”
Beyond basic RSS:A world of syndication
Something new to subscribe to
•Resources are at Teach42.com/Advanced-RSS
•Explore new types of RSS feeds
•Bookmark/subscribe a few new feeds
Mixing it up:Share your feeds in new and
interesting ways
Flickr
Del.icio.us
SuprGlu
FeedJumbler
Feed Digest
HTML to RSS and back again
Putting it in your site
1. Find your feed2. Get the html
code3. Insert it in
your site4. Publish it!
RSS in Education
GCPS
Shanghai American School
Tracking the Supreme Court
Dave Warlick’s presentation resources
Lewis Elementary School
How are you going to use this?
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