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Jan 6
What Is RSS And What Does It Have Do With Business Blogging?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication - automated publishing.  Any business blog - whether corporate or personal - needs to know what RSS is and how (and WHY) to use it.  Here are some starting pointers:

Yahoo! offers some startling information showing that nearly one-third of Web users actually use RSS, but that the vast majority of them aren't aware of the fact.

The BBC news site explains RSS in a simple, straightforward way.

You can even subscribe to my RSS feedRead how to do that.

Lastly, the Wikipedia article on RSS is excellent.

Any more resources?  Let us all know.

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RSS is one of the most helpful tools for promotion that has arisen since email. Although some people have "spammed" with it, it is a lot more difficult than email spam.

I recently found another source of information about RSS and posted a link to it over at http://www.blogsmart-resources.com/2006/01/rss-blog.html

Keith, thanks for the resource. That's exactly what we're looking for. We want to help folks know where to turn for good information about RSS, especially as it pertains to helping businesses grow.

Hello everyone! Good to hear that people are beginning to research RSS Syndication. Personally, I believe that RSS is the future...read more about my thoughts here: http://e-bizz.blogspot.com/2006/01/rss-syndication-users-vehicle.html

Let me know what you think!

THANKS
-chris

Nice thoughts on RSS, Christopher. I've bookmarked your blog (hey, I oughta just grab your feed).

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