When I first stumbled across RSS syndication while surfing the net, it piqued my curiosity to the point where I could not help myself, but, to look into this new form of site promotion further.

What I found out about this new technology will absolutely change the way you keep in touch with your subscribers and or readers, in many ways, for years to come.

Just to keep up with the times I recently built a webpage for my website specifically to promote my RSS feed in order to take on new subscribers, and… most important of all, to put this new technology to the test.

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FeedSifter filters RSS feeds.

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Before you do, you need to know that being a user of social media, and understanding its strategic applications for your PR, marketing, and communications initiatives, are two dramatically different skill sets.

Some mistakes to avoid:

No. 1: Diving in without a strategic plan

Don't start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, friending on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationships.

No. 2: Not having a social media policy

Your social media policy needs to outline how employees behave in the online universe during and outside of work. It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality. All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company's values and brand.

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Grab the OPML file or each RSS feed all for designers.

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Create your own embeddable RSS locator applications! rssmapper analyses RSS feeds and derives location information for every update. See where things are happening, and easily share your maps by adding them to your website in just a few clicks.

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Follow the weather via RSS feeds. Here you will find feeds for not only current conditions and weather forecasts for more than three million locations worldwide, but also for a variety of topical blogs, and global warming and entertainment news.

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Displaying RSS feeds on your website a.k.a. syndicating is an easy way to get an automated stream of fresh content for your site. But is it ethical?

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This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe. Google RSS Extension

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FeedWind is a RSS feed widget. Simply copy & paste the snippet of code to embed into your web page.

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Webmasters and marketers spend an inordinate amount of time building quality content that relates to their products or services. Yet the vast majority of these marketers fail to fully capitalize on the content they were so careful to create.

Webmasters can easily reformat their web content and present it to their customers in a variety of different ways. And different formats can be promoted through different channels. The different formats will often appeal to new and different audiences. For example: a video explanation may resonate with a younger technical customer, while an eBook in PDF format may appeal an older customer.

Present Content Different Ways

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RSS2Post automatically post your favorite RSS digest on your wordpress blog

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Select the shows you want to follow and add them to your list.Get your feed address and subscribe using ShowRSS.

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A new tool will join the censorship circumvention arsenal this September.

Feed Over E-mail restricted content, in the form of RSS feeds, via email. The tool can not help a user browse censored sites or obtain large files. But its creator, Sho Ho, says that FOE could be particularly hard to block and could work in concert with other circumvention technologies. Ho, who is a researcher with the federal governments Broadcasting Board of Governors, gave a talk about FOE yesterday at Defcon, a hacker conference that takes place annually in Las Vegas.

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If you want to get started on a new widget, the first thing to check out is Apples sample code. There you can find great sample widgets that will give you a good foundation to build upon.

For my Make widget, I wanted to display a live RSS feed from the MAKE blog, one clickable line per blog entry.

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RSS Footer is one of those free WordPress plugins, which provide a lot of value for your blog. Thanks to this plugin you can add an extra link back to your blog in your feed. You can choose whether to display the link at the beginning of the feed or at the end and configure the display of the link.

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Use this tool to build a custom podcast of various topics, musicians, personalities and NPR programs.
NPR Podcasts

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Seagate External Network HDD Sends RSS Feeds

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In my recent post about using Harvest to track my time, I discovered that I was spending too much of my time consuming information. As a result, I’ve been working on ways to further increase my efficiency, starting with some Twitter efficiency improvements, and I thought that a post about becoming more efficient at consuming blogs and other news content via RSS would be a good next step.

Improve Efficiency in Reading RSS Feeds

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Details of RSS tags and elements.

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RSS2HTML - free PHP script for displaying RSS feeds as HTML web pages.

FutureRSS - PHP script for displaying only current RSS feed items.

RSS2HTML Cache - module to speed up the display of RSS feed items.

RSSmesh - merge multiple RSS feeds into a single feed.

SQL2RSS - create RSS feeds from an MySQL database.

RSS2HTML Pro -  expands the functionality of RSS2HTML by allowing publishers and webmasters to dynamically create an index of feed items.

RSS2SQL - create database from RSS feeds.

RSS Filter - create filters for RSS feeds.

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Color psychology is a phrase used to describe the effect that color  has on human behavior. The psychology of color is certainly not a new concept. In fact, it has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Colors tend to carry non-verbal and subliminal messages, and the color spectrum evokes different emotions and physiological responses in people. The reactions people have to specific colors may be influenced by many factors, including their culture, location, gender, or even their age.

The Emotion of Color in Website Design

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Given the wide range of exposure surrounding RSS, I think it is really important to handle your feed in a way that will be usable by as many people as possible. One way to accomplish that is to apply a bit of structure and style to your feed in case an inexperienced user were to somehow find their way to your RSS via their browser.

Applying CSS to RSS

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Fifty page booklet with information about how educators can use Web 2.0.

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Medical and Health RSS news feeds.

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What I learned from that discussion is that while the RSS Reader market is indeed in decline, there are still a number of compelling use cases for RSS Readers. Not to mention new tools worth checking out. So in this more optimistic post, I list 5 reasons why you should continue to use RSS Readers.

My conclusions in the previous post still stand: 1) Google now dominates what's left of the RSS Reader market; and 2) RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009-2010 due to Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, Firefox bookmarks, and more. However, a lot of commenters wrote that they still use RSS Readers each and every day.

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Innovative, memorable, and compelling domain names are becoming more and more difficult to come up with. The following tools can help webmasters find great domain names for their online businesses....

Domain Name Suggestions

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So, you have built an empire on the Internet, and now it is time to move on. Well OK, maybe its not a full-blown empire, but it has taken substantial blood, sweat and tears to create, and you want to make sure you get a reasonable amount of money for all your efforts. Determining the value of a website can be tricky, because a number of factors can play a role. Factors involved in determining the resale value of a website include...

Buy, Sell or Value a Website

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Feed2Mobile is a free service which offers a bridge between Web-based and Mobile content.

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Feedmarklet gives you your own RSS feed instantly, with no sign up required. Adding content to your feed is a snap- just browse the web as you normally would, and when you find something interesting, press the bookmarklet button in your browser bookmark bar to immediately add the page you are on to your feed.

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Twitter has been experiencing a number of fail whales since Tuesday, a service-outage problem the micro-blogging site attributed to a system-side issue.

Twitters lack of reliability is going to lose them followers.

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California has launched a news hub that, in real time, compiles and updates its many agencies Twitter, RSS and YouTube news feeds.

The news aggregator site, unveiled Friday, July 2, collects in one place content from more than 200 department and agency sources. With more official sources being added daily, the news hub scoops real-time feeds from agencies and already has 83 Twitter accounts, 40 YouTube channels and nearly 100 RSS feeds, an Office of the State Chief Information Officer press release said.

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Many small businesses make mistakes, and smart entrepreneurs will learn from the mistakes of others. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of some common mistakes that small business owners often make....

Top 10 Small Business Mistakes

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Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions mumble — the translation of tweet — and give mini-blogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.

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Do not assume that just because your blog is perfect, your RSS reader experience will be the same. A few things to double-check to help your content and its promotion be that much better:

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NOAA weather alerts via an RSS Feed.

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