The great communicators at Common Craft let me know May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. There is an offical site at RSSDAY.ORG .
I think all Lean leaders should be aware of RSS feeds because it removes the waste of searching for new material. Sure the info is pushed to you but there can be a lot of time wasted trying to pull.
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Common Craft created this 4 minute video RSS in Plain English. If you are not using RSS , you are creating waste of unnecessary movment with search time! I also love the presentation style this company has.
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Ever have somebody share WAYYY too much information (TMI) with you? The internet is getting to the point of TMI also.
There are a lot of authors and sites I enjoy reading regularly. Bloggers in my field (Project Mgt and Lean) provide a great community and help with my professional development. There are writers who inspire me to post an article to add my perspective on a topic. The trouble is – who has time to visit sites frequently anymore?
Google Reader has helped me increase my productivity and unleashed my ability to keep up on many sites. I am able to focus on my projects and not get sidetracked looking for updates or trying to remember that one site I really liked a couple months ago but can’t find it in my favorites.
I popped all of my favorite RSS feeds into “Add subscription” and now I can see site updates quickly. I can read about 45 sites in about 10-15 minutes a day. I use three folders to separate work-related sites, personal interest pages, and sites that I only read when time permits (low, low priority). I set my preferences to open on my work-related sites folder.
The following keyboard shortcuts quickly separate the articles I want to read from the ones I wish to skip (there are more but this is what I use):
If you run a site, you should use the reader to your advantage. I think more and more people will be using this (or something similar). If your site doesn’t have an RSS feed, the chances of people keeping up with you may dwindle. You can easily add a button to your posts so visitors can subscribe to your content. I use this whenever I find an interesting site.
I was finally inspired to use the reader after reading Tim Ferriss’ post 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. There is more advice in the article.
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