You may have noticed there is a lot (slight understatement) of information available online. Sometimes this can, lets be honest, be a little overwhelming. If informal learning accounts for over 70% of our time then anytime you are on the web is obviously a rich learning environment - especially if we hang out there for a good part of our day.
So is this really productive time? Lets have a show of hands. You could spend a whole day just sifting through article after article and still not get your knowledge fix. Its hard to know what to look at - particularly when you hit a company portal.
So... how can you filter this information so you can manage your day? The answer has been around for a few years already but has only now become popular because of powerhouses like our favourite Google and Yahoo. They thrive on news and information so thats where RSS comes in.
For a quick and simple explanation about how your life can be made easy visit this short video. RSS in Plain English
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a method for providing regularly changing web content in an easy to grap feed.
By subscribing to RSS feeds you can easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in - saving you time by not needing to visit each site individually. So what do you need to get on the bandwagon?
A Feed Reader or News Aggregator software can grab RSS feeds from sites and output them in a format that is easy to read.
So there you have it. RSS can save you time and effort and make your day more productive. I have been using RSS feeds for a while now externally. Internally, we need to do a bit more work to make this process streamlined but I believe we are getting there. I'd like to visit this popular topic again when I get successful at consolidating some internal feeds. Stay tuned.
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