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RSS and Your Nonprofit
A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs, courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog:
- More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration
- More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes
- More RSS Tools: Using Google Reader for Research and Sharing
- More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds
I highly recommend reading these posts. There's a lot of good information here, even if you're already a pro at RSS.
If you're not familiar with RSS feeds, Peter's article is a good place to start. This cute video isn't bad either. Much has already been said about the benefits of using an RSS reader, so I will only add that using one allows me to read the latest updates on all of my favorite blogs — 175 of them, at last count, generating several hundred new stories daily — during a half-hour lunch break. What's more, I can use custom feeds on sites like Technorati and Delicious to learn news in the nonprofit world that my blogs might have missed. Here at TechSoup, we love RSS feeds. You can use our RSS feeds to read our newest articles as they're published and learn about new product donations before we advertise them.
At first, I used the Mac-based reader Shrook. Later, when I started using a PC at work, I switched to Google Reader. As more people in my professional circle have started using Google Reader, the tool's social networking features have become a greater part of how I find information online. Now, I'm just as likely to find an important piece of news from a friend's shared items in Google Reader as from my own feeds. I can even have my shared items automatically show up on my Facebook wall, for maximum geekitude.
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- What Is RSS?
- Why Nonprofit Managers Must Use RSS — And How to Start
- Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS Feeds
- Need a RSS-t from RSS Overload?
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