RSS feeds and staying in touch - Special request

Staying in touch with information can be difficult at the best of times, and whilst it's handy to have a newsfeed service such as this, the problem arises knowing when new information becomes available.

In this post we will look at RSS feeds and how they can be used to keep up to date with information as it updates.

RSS feeds basically work like being sent an sms when new information becomes available.
For the more technically minded a full explanation of RSS can be found here or an excellent youtube video is available below:



You can use several ways to read the RSS feeds there are:

Google reader(essential)

and to read your google reader account you can use the following programs:

Outlook
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox
Macintosh (not Windows) programs


Google Reader


Firstly, the base for most of these methods is google reader, to do this sign up to a google email account and it's free.

Create an account for google reader here

A short video on the process and using google reader



Once you have added the feed to your google reader you can then use any of the following to keep up to date:


Outlook

An explanation of how to set up your RSS feeds in Microsoft outlook is available by clicking here.

A short instructional video is available below:


Internet Explorer 7

A short instructional video on adding RSS Feeds to IE7



Firefox

In firefox you can add a feed a few ways you can:

1) add it to the "live bookmarks" section of firefox



or

2) Install an add-on to manage it for you. This add on will create a small icon in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox displaying the number of unread RSS feeds you have.



You can install the add-on here.

Macintosh software

Mac programs are available with instructions here.

A short instructional video for Safari is available below




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