RSS and me, Why everyone needs a reader
Props to Kevin McCord for his post on why you should subscribe to him:
Let me give you my bottom line:
- You are too busy to visit my website.
- You don’t want to be frustrated when I don’t have anything new posted.
- Subscribing will solve both of those problems.
I like that, a plain and simple reason that you should subscribe to blogs. Today, I took 45 minutes to explain the process of subscribing to RSS feeds to our staff. I showed them the beautiful tools that Google has to offer, including:
- iGoogle - You make your Google frontpage look like you want it to and include gadgets that you want displayed.
- Google Reader - The easy way to subscribe to feeds and read them
- Google Reader Gadget for Personalized Home - Read all of your feeds without leaving your home page
- Google Blogsearch - Finding blogs of interest just got easier with Blogsearch. Find all the important children’s ministry blogs, for example.
For the CITRT readers, this is a GREAT topic to train your staff on. We, as uber-geeks, know how much benefit can be gained from the conversation platform that blogs provide. Our staff aren’t typically there yet. However, blogging is becoming more and more mainstream and less of a thing that only the geeks are doing. Let’s get our children’s ministers, business administrators, bookkeepers, and others involved in a community of others who do the same thing they do. I bet it’ll make a tremendous impact.