· The new way of using the interwebs ·
Ok, the "new way" of using the interwebs is actually the "old way" to anyone who knows about RSS feeds. However, my colleagues didn't know what RSS feeds were, so I gave them a quick lesson today.
I started by showing them this great introductory video by Lee Lefever:
My colleagues and I use Google Calendar for our team diary, so I figured it would be easiest for them to use Google Reader to read their RSS feeds because they already have a Google account. Also, Lefever features Google Reader in his video so by showing them Google Reader I was keeping things simple.
I gave my colleagues a few ideas about what feeds they might like to subscribe to. I suggested they subscribe to the feed on our ANTaR website, and the ABC's Indigenous feed (tip: on the ABC website you can subscribe to news feeds based on tags, which is very useful). It wasn't long before they were subscribing to feeds without my help :)
P.S. if you need to educate people at your organisation about new-fangled interweb things such as wikis, social networking and blogs, Lefever has made a pile of great films that you could point people to. Take a look at his YouTube profile.
Thursday January 17, 2008
Categories: Technology
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