Advicelet benefit: Keeping one step ahead of your competition, huge time savings, increased knowledge.

So, RSS… you’ve heard the term before… you vaguely recognise that orange symbol on websites… it sounds like a techy subject – you may think this first lesson isn’t for you because you’re not a geek…?!

Well, you’d be wrong!

If you thought Outlook or PowerPoint was an essential business tool, over the next couple of weeks we guarantee you will be putting RSS right up there with them both.

RSS is a totally different method for getting information to you and your colleagues. Data is pushed to you, as opposed to you pulling it by searching for, or visiting websites. Used correctly it is incredibly powerful and can absolutely give you an edge over your competitors (and colleagues!).

This advicelet introduces you to the concept, shows you how to set up your RSS reader and how to start setting up relevant content flowing into you. Later in the course we take a look at things in more detail. For today though, we want you to get used to this new way of working and hopefully get you to embrace it.

We start with an introduction to ‘push’ technology.

Click the icon below to get started. (Click the button to the left of the volume control to go full screen)

Remember, this is part one of three advicelets on RSS… in the next one, we take a look in more detail at Google Reader. We’ve only had time to scratch the surface today, but at the same time hopefully given you enough to get going and to experiment looking for the sorts of feeds that would help build your knowledge and competitive advantage on a day to day basis.

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