Today we face a problem, not of information scarcity, but an over abundance of information. Getting useful online information to flow to you is critical to keep pace with the explosion of online knowledge. We often find reliable and interesting sources of information, but find it difficult to keep returning to see what’s been posted recently. RSS feeds and feed readers help deliver up-to-date content from the sources you choose. This session will explain what an RSS feed is, and how you can use a feed reader to aggregate all these updates in one, easy to read, place - and keep them out of your inbox. Presented by Anne Adrian and John Dorner

1. Getting Online Information
to Come to You
Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University
Twitter: @aafromaa
John Dorner, North Carolina State University
Twitter: @jdorner
NACAA July 2012

2. Brought to you by the eXtension
Network Literacy CoP
www.extension.org/network_literacy
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3. What is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication
A way that information is syndicated
Behind the scenes scripting/language
With RSS, you can subscribe to the 'news feeds' of a
web site as they are posted.
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4. Why use RSS?
Blogs
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? News
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5. Why use RSS?
Blogs
News
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6. Look for the feed icon
www.ag.ndsu.edu/
workingdifferently
cnn.com
MSIE Toolbar
nacaa.com/positions
Google Chrome Location Panel
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7. Getting feeds
Google Reader - http://reader.google.com
iGoogle - http://igoogle.com
MyYahoo! - http://my.yahoo.com
Internet Explorer
Outlook
Firefox Live Bookmarks
MANY others
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8. Google Reader example http://reader.google.com
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9. Google Reader example http://reader.google.com
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11. Show examples
Use GR's "subscribe/search button"
http://www.cnn.com/ and click on "RSS Feeds"
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/AgPhD/
Wikipedia - revision
history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beef&action=history
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ittotd/
Blogs
http://blogs.extension.org/mastergardener/
http://purduephil.wordpress.com/
http://nacaa.com/positions/
Podcasts - http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/workingdifferently/working-differently-
in-extension-podcast
Scoop.it - http://www.scoop.it/t/workingdifferently
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12. Getting Online Information
to Come to You
Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University
Twitter: @aafromaa
John Dorner, North Carolina State University
Twitter: @jdorner
NACAA July 2012

13. Abstract
Today we face a problem, not of information scarcity, but an over abundance of
information. Getting useful online information to flow to you is critical to keep pace with
the explosion of online knowledge.
We often find reliable and interesting sources of information, but find it difficult to keep
returning to see what’s been posted recently. RSS feeds and feed readers help deliver
up-to-date content from the sources you choose. This session will explain what an RSS
feed is, and how you can use a feed reader to aggregate all these updates in one, easy
to read, place - and keep them out of your inbox.
In this session, we will give examples of typical feeds an educator might want to keep up
with.