RSS Lovers: This Post is For You
No, not here, over on the ReadWriteWeb site, where Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a wonderful compendium of Seven Tips for Making the Most of RSS. Not for the newly RSS-initiated, Marshall digs deep into a bunch of very cool RSS tools, and showed some excellent screen shots of Attensa’s RSS reader in action.
Makes me want to write a Beginners Guide to RSS. Wait… I did that three years ago at Marqui! I wonder if they still have the RSS Rx whitepaper we wrote while there…. It’d be fun to update it today.
As a bonus, Marshall included this fantastic little shot from Fasticon, a site with vey cool icon sets for sale.
I hope the team over at the Enterprise RSS Day of Action (coming up in two weeks, April 24) will leverage the heck out of Marshall’s post.
Timing is everything…
Hi Janet, thanks for the link and the very kind words. Somehow you got a funky link in there, though. Should be http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tips_for_making_the_most_of_rss.php
Take care and keep up the RSS advocacy!
Thanks Marshall. I fixed the link - once in awhile…
Cheers!
Yes, this is a good post. As a product manager, I find RSS is a very good way of managing information and keeping on top of the myriad of tidbits that are scattered across the Internet(s) that are critical to keeping my company competitive.
Unfortunately it is impossible to adjust strategy as quickly as RSS updates; which is pretty much the ultimate challenge for everyone who uses blogs and news feeds for this purpose.
I suppose this is the ultimate test for a good corporate strategy - is the strategy general enough (yet specific to be actionable) to accomodate day to day RSS information?
Hi Craig - I just read on Twitter that to Follow is more important than to Be Followed - you never know what you’re going to pick up…
To me, the notion of adjusting strategy is dependent on your role in the organization. A PR person is going to be able to turn on a dime much more quickly than a product manager. One is more concerned with the imminent marketplace, one is more concerned with the future.
As such, I believe a well-constructed communications strategy is role-sensitive within the organization.
You’re doing the right thing by subscribing to feeds. The attention you pay is the key to separating wheat from chaff over time. Do yourself a favor and tag more, that will help your RSS reader (if you use a smart one like Attensa’s) to learn how your attention gravitates, and will help pull the more pertinent information up to the top for you.
It’s always nice to see your comments… cheers!