The most common topic I give training presentations on is the use of RSS for tracking issues important to various organizations. This has been the heart of what I’ve focused on since I first got involved in this industry, that hasn’t changed. My methodology has changed a lot over the years. It’s a happy day when I can add something new to my personal RSS strategy, and thus to the strategy I share with others.
Below is a series of screen shots illustrating the current state of my basic RSS work flow. There are lots of little details, feed discovery and creation techniques and other advanced steps that can be taken – but I’m often asked about the basics. So here they are. I hope you find this useful and feel free to pass it along to a friend. I’ll do my best to answer any questions in comments below. If you’d like a personalized research system like this set up and populated with the most useful feeds for your work, let me know. I’m also working with some other people on a giant post coming soon describing all the things I know how to do with a pile of RSS feeds – I have a consulting project that’s totally open ended so I thought I’d make a list.
Note that I made this post almost entirely with the application ScreenSteps. It was easy and fun, I wanted to try it and it didn’t take too long for me to think of a good topic to try it on.
Continue reading