RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe to updates from websites and have new content delivered directly to their personal RSS reader. This summarizes the information from multiple websites in one place and means users no longer have to do repetitive searches to check for updates. The document outlines how RSS works by signing up for a reader and adding website subscriptions. It explains that RSS can be used to keep track of search results, bookmarks, photos, videos, sports scores, weather and more. This allows users to stay on top of information without having to spend time searching different websites each day.

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

3. (too much information)

5. (too little time)

7. (too little money)

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14. What if...?

15. 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...?

16. All the information you needed just came to you.

17. Enter RSS.

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19. http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

20. 2 steps: 1) sign up 2) add subscriptions

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

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

23. tags!

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

26. stay on top of it all

27. RSS puts the internet to work for you.

28. Ideas? Questions?

29. handouts!

30. 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]

31. thanks!