Teaching the Internet to surf itself – RSS and you. Elizabeth Perry

Elizabeth Perry

(too much information)

(too little time)

(too little money)

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What if...?

What if... instead of going out on multiple web searches every day, with some of the searches fruitless, distractions intervening, some avenues inevitably forgotten... What if...?

All the information you needed just came to you.

Enter RSS.

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http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

2 steps: 1) sign up 2) add subscriptions

But I only read a couple of blogs, and I can listen to the news on the way to work.

RSS does even more. You can also subscribe to: search results, bookmarks, photos, video, sports results, weather, package tracking, and...

tags!

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image from Beth Kanter - http://nptag.wikispaces.com/ ways to sort and search

stay on top of it all

RSS puts the internet to work for you.

Ideas? Questions?

handouts!

credits: mailbox - Elizabeth Perry, elizabethperry.com puzzled man - Mark Stroup, markstroup.com money - Tracy O, flickr.com clock - MontanaRaven, flickr.com video - “RSS in Plain English,” commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english tagged pen - Beth Kanter, nptag.wikispaces.com lightbulb - Knut, flickr.com (images used under creative commons license, or by permission) for more info: [email_address]

thanks!