I mentioned in an earlier post that it's possible to have a "home" page (also called a feed reader, or an aggregator) that checks for new content in a variety of blogs and news posts...saving you from having to check each of these sites each day. To do that, you use RSS (Real Simple Syndication). Here's a great little video by Lee LeFever at CommonCraft explaining the concept of RSS.
For example, I have a feed reader where each morning I can scan about 15 blogs I've identified with content on technology, training & development, leadership development, breaking news, the weather, and even a few sport scores! It saves tons of time while still keeping me in the loop!
I encourage you to learn more about this! (maybe it's something you want to work on together?)
("what's a blog?" according to USC Anneberg Online Journalism Review site, blogger.com, and wikipedia.)
2 comments:
Robin, I am liking this blog thing! I also appreciate your info about RSS. I have several blogs I check every day (some I check several times a day, I am embarassed to say) and this would save me lots of looking to see if there is anything new. I may just check into RSS. Thanks!
Marty--it saves a TON of time. I use my.yahoo for my aggregation page, but I'm having students in ALOP 265 use googlereader. So give either of those a try!
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