Yikes… that’s a lot of information!
There is an awful lot of information out there. How in the world do we sort through it all?
Have you ever heard of an RSS feed? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Is it really simple?
If you are ever on a site that has this symbol
that means that you can get information fed right to you without having to browse all the pages. For example, I have feeds coming to me from InfoWorld and Fox News (to name a few). What I really like is that I don't have to spend time looking for information. I get about 200 articles a day ready for me to read and if I don't want to read them, I just ignore them.
How do you get the information to you? Well, you need to have an aggregator. I use Snarfer from http://www.snarfware.com/. You can also get a Google Home Page or a Yahoo Home Page and let them aggregate the information for you for free. It just depends on what you like.
All you have to do is load the software, click on the RSS feed link, and then copy and paste the URL into your aggregator.
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Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher's Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.
Have you ever heard of an RSS feed? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Is it really simple?
If you are ever on a site that has this symbol
that means that you can get information fed right to you without having to browse all the pages. For example, I have feeds coming to me from InfoWorld and Fox News (to name a few). What I really like is that I don't have to spend time looking for information. I get about 200 articles a day ready for me to read and if I don't want to read them, I just ignore them.
How do you get the information to you? Well, you need to have an aggregator. I use Snarfer from http://www.snarfware.com/. You can also get a Google Home Page or a Yahoo Home Page and let them aggregate the information for you for free. It just depends on what you like.
All you have to do is load the software, click on the RSS feed link
, and then copy and paste the URL into your aggregator.
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Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher's Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.
Corey Smith is the president of Tribute Media a web development firm providing high performing, industry specific websites. He is a businessman, writer, technology fanatic, graphic designer and web developer. His greatest passion is teaching, consulting and speaking.
You can find him on Twitter, FaceBook, FriendFeed, and LinkedIn.
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