RSS Made Simple
Today I was helping a friend and FHA Mortgage Lender in New Jersey, Jeff Belonger, learn how to read blogs in a RSS feed. Over the last year, I started subscribing to more and more blogs and my email was going crazy.
I would want to read what my favorite bloggers were saying, and not miss out; yet business clients would contact me and those emails would get all mixed together. A night-mare. So I decided to us a RSS feed. I personally like the Google feed reader but you can subscribe in the multitude that are available.
What is RSS?
According to Wikipedia, it stands for Really Simple Syndication. It in a nut shell,RSS makes it easier to keep up with your friends web-logs or blogs automatically without going out to their sites everyday or subscribing to their posts by email.
I’m sure you have seen this symbol. 
It means subscribe in a RSS Feed.
I sent this video out to my office last year and a light bulb went off in the agents as they realized how really simple this would be. (no pun intended)
This video was created by Lee Lefever from the Common Craft Blog. Now I subscribe to Lee’s blog so I don’t miss out on any of videos where he turns complex ideas into easy explanations.
Now if I just had a Really Simple way to get my boys to take the garbage out. (()sigh)))
January 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Missy,
I use the RSS feed through my Office 2007 Outlook, and it’s very easy. In fact, it’s how I found out about your blog post this evening.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Vance, I have no idea how to integrate into OUTLOOK, so I use Google, care to give me a lesson? Is it a outlook 07 thing? I haven’t upgraded, but Betty has.
January 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Missy…. thanks for the quick lesson today and the phone call. I would also love to know how to incorporate this through outlook. I have the ‘07 version. And now off to add you to my FEEDER… ;o) And thanks for the love link.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Hi Missy - I love the video. I have been talking this up at tech Tuesdays at KW. I am just going to show this video. Thanks for bringing it to my attetion. Andy
January 29th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I have Outlook ‘07 and I have used it. I also use Firefox and use an add-on called Sage. Very easy to use too.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Jay, I’ll check it Sage out. I just started using firefox but it doesn’t work with point2, zipforms or mls, so I toggle back and forth.
January 29th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Andy sounds good, this is a very easy to understand video.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:53 am
I love those videos…use them in my classes as they really keep things simple.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Monika, this is the video that got me started, I really love common craft blog.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Hi Missy:
RSS feeds have been not been really simple for me to understand up until now but I’m getting there. Thanks for helping to make it simple
I finally have my blog up and running. The sidebar is still a work in progress but it is coming along. I have been writing post on it for a little over a week now. So much to learn.