Internetnews.com published a pretty sharp analysis on 13 August of the threat to traditional marketing and PR activity that business blogs present. What’s especially interesting about the article is its commentary on RSS, which gives clear advantages to marketing and PR departments in how they can change their communication models. RSS (concise definition) is a […]
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RSS gets down to business
RSS is moving into the business realm with the release this week of RSSCalendar, a free web-based service for sharing calendar data over the Internet, CNET News reports. Developer John Pacchetti released a trial version of RSSCalendar last month. The service allows a user to convert and publish calendar data as an RSS feed. Friends, […]
RSS on your phone with iFeedYou
I discovered a new (to me) RSS service with a difference. Swiss-based iFeedYou offers access to various RSS webfeeds much as some other web-based RSS services do. Where iFeedYou adds value is that you can also view your RSS webfeeds from your mobile phone (WAP or iMode) or a PDA. Looks interesting. How does it […]
Newsgator: Great RSS add-in for Outlook
I’ve just started trying out Newsgator, an RSS news aggregator that runs within Microsoft Outlook. Summing up my experience so far in one word – excellent. If you want to get a view on all your incoming information – email as well as RSS webfeeds – from within a single program, Newsgator is definitely worth […]
RSS on the mainstream verge
Another good example of how RSS is being used more and more as the information center of choice. Greg Hughes says he saves about 300 hours of time per week because he gets much of his information through RSS webfeeds: I use RSS feeds for practically everything now. Rarely do I browse to a web […]
RSS: FeedDemon, not NewsGator
Having tried out NewsGator for syndicated RSS webfeeds, I’ve decided to stay with FeedDemon. NewsGator is good, I have no issue with the program. It’s more to do with how I use my email program. As I mentioned in a previous post, I use Outlook 2003 for email but it’s purely the background app with […]
RSS complements email marketing
There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently on RSS taking over the job that email traditionally has done in marketing. Rick Bruner made a good case last month for why you shouldn’t just switch to RSS with One (Percent) Reason Why Not to Switch From Email to RSS. His post generated some good comments. […]
More fuel for RSS and marketing debate
More articles and comments continue to appear about RSS and whether or when it could replace email as a primary marketing communication channel. I’ve also posted about this subject recently as I believe it’s a topic that is of distinct interest to all communicators, not only those concerned with email and marketing. Robin Good published […]
Create your own RSS webfeed
While RSS is still on my mind today, following my post a few hours ago about RSS and marketing, let me tell you about a free program that will enable you to create your own RSS webfeeds if you wanted to try out RSS yourself. Try out in the sense of creating as opposed to […]
RSS: Orange not blue
Those little orange XML buttons you see on blogs and websites are becoming more prolific. They signify a link to the site’s RSS webfeed. So a quick right-click and it’s easy to add a feed, a new channel, to your RSS reader (I use FeedDemon and it’s dead easy). For some time, I’ve had this […]
RSS: How to get up to speed quickly
Are you clear on what RSS is and what the benefits are? Even if you are, a handy guide to what RSS is all about could be what you need to find out more on how you can gain better business advantage from RSS to keep fully up to speed with the news and information […]
Fly biz class on Air France, get a free iPod mini
Air France has a new promotion where they’re giving away free iPod minis to people who fly business class to Europe [from the US] between now and January 15th, but before you get any ideas about picking up your new toy at the airport lounge they won’t actually be sending you your free iPod mini […]
RSS: Three ways it can make your web life better
Excellent ‘easy as 1-2-3’ concise guide to getting more out of RSS, written for CNET Reviews by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome: Get a more up-to-date search engine: New search engines such as Feedster scrape results from RSS feeds, giving you up-to-the-minute results. There’s no easier way to keep an eye on the indexing of your […]
Cool RSS web stickies
Playing with an interesting little web app – Webnote. Here’s what it is: Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available. You start by creating a workspace and creating notes […]
Ads start arriving in RSS feeds
It was just a matter of time – RSS webfeeds are now starting to carry advertising. I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks that some of the feeds I subscribe to contain advertising messages, so far with the message header prefixed with the word ‘AD.’ Engadget now includes an ad message at the end […]
Business Week aggregated RSS webfeed
Nice work by Constantin Basturea! He’s created a group in Blogdigger that aggregates the seven RSS webfeeds offered by Business Week Online. Now, you can get them all in one go rather than have to subscribe individually at the Business Week website. Business Week Headlines aggregated RSS webfeed
Everything you wanted to know about RSS
Excellent collection of easy-to-understand, non-technical descriptions of RSS, Atom, what you can do with RSS, how to find RSS feeds – you name it, it’s covered here. Fagan Finder | All About RSS (Via Online Business Networks)
New RSS reader targets bloggers
There’s a new RSS reader on the market – Blog Navigator. Folllowing beta testing for the past few months, Stardock – about whom I’ve posted on their Windows customization apps – released version 1.0 yesterday. From the press release: Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs […]
Understanding RSS from the non-tech view
A friend in the UK asked me for some thoughts and info about RSS and how she could create and syndicate her company’s own RSS feeds for things like press releases and product information. She wanted a non-technical view, something she could easily understand herself so that she’d be able to have a sensible discussion […]
Top ten reasons for using RSS
I came across a very good post today about the benefits of RSS that neatly complements what I wrote the other day about understanding RSS from the non-tech view. Marnie Webb at Extension 337 writes about the ten reasons why non-profit organizations should use RSS. Valid indeed, and which I think will apply for any […]