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//RSS is the glue that keeps your social software together and also injects the power into its use.//

What is RSS?
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 * Really Simple Syndication
 * uses xml code to create and subscribe to content

Sounds geeky and boring why should I care?
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 * Helps manage information...
 * Allows you to utilize a news reader to subscribe to weblogs, news media, searches, and other rss enable web content
 * Makes your web experience more focused and richer
 * Saves time...
 * Instead of visiting all your favourite sources, you go to one place
 * News readers summarize content to make it easy to decide if you want to read it or discard it

Okay maybe, but how do I use it?

 * Find a news reader
 * [|Google Reader]
 * [|Google Reader Tutorial Video]
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Full List of News Aggregators]
 * Your browser
 * Add or import feeds
 * Create folders to organize sources
 * Save particularly important posts
 * Email articles to others

**Besides subscribing to blogs, what is your favourite use of RSS?**
[|job postings] [|delicious links] [|Google Alerts for my school] [|Favorite twitter feeds] I don't want to miss [|Forum Discussions] Inspiration for blog posts News & reviews on new products, both tech & non-tech: shopping! Following changes to shared documents in Google Docs Monitoring student contributions to wikis projects and [|Voicethread conversations]. Flickr pictures Google Alert for my name Comments left on blogs, photostreams, etc. Favorite cartoonists Podcasts wiki updates ebay items travel plans (tripit) Facebook Updates [|To Do lists]

Other formats or aggregators
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**Now you've got me interested, where can I find out more?**

 * ===**[|Educator's Guide to RSS]**===
 * [|My metaphor for RSS]
 * [|Brian Mull's wiki on RSS]
 * [|50+ RSS Ideas for Educators]
 * [|My presentation] on RSS.
 * [|The ELI "7 Things You Should Know..." piece] on RSS