Making RSS Work for YOU Steve Dembo

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What is RSS? Real Simple Syndication RSS feeds provide web content in a specific format that allows sites and software to republish the information in new ways

Breaking it down

Same data, different look

Where do you find RSS?

Finding the Feed

With your browser

Ways people can subscribe Aggregator Apps Browser My Yahoo Inbox

Optimizing your feed

Why you should burn your feeds

Adding it to your site

Fire up your Feeds If you don’t have an aggregator, register at Bloglines.com Find the RSS feed for your site Register at Feedburner.com Point readers to your new feed Put a chicklet in your blog’s sidebar Copy and paste the code from Publicize > Chicklet Chooser Adjust the hidden link to your feed in your site’s header Look for lines starting with <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml”

Beyond basic RSS: A world of syndication

Something new to subscribe to Resources are at Teach42.com/Advanced-RSS Explore new types of RSS feeds Bookmark/subscribe a few new feeds

Mixing it up: Share your feeds in new and interesting ways

Flickr

Del.icio.us

SuprGlu

FeedJumbler

Feed Digest

HTML to RSS and back again

Putting it in your site 1.Find your feed 2.Get the html code 3.Insert it in your site 4.Publish it!

RSS in Education

GCPS

Shanghai American School

Tracking the Supreme Court

Dave Warlick’s presentation resources

Lewis Elementary School

How are you going to use this?

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Making RSS Work for You Steve Dembo