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Is it just for Nonprofit Managers that must use RSS? I’ve come across a neat article about useful of RSS for the managers of Nonprofit organizations with the title Why Nonprofit Managers Must Use RSS — And How to Start, I think this is a very useful article, a must read probably, hehe, for those who have not yet know what is RSS and how it could benefit to you while it is being used very common in almost every websites since the era of blog has started.

Using RSS is not only for Nonprofit Managers, but probably for managers it would give more benefitials. I think for everyone who love to read the summary, because RSS is stand for “Rich Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication”. Both are true, one it is a syndication service and second it is a summary of a part of website or even a whole site like a blog. In short, using RSS can make us see wider, many without having to visit each site that we keep an eyes on for an update.

I’ve been a fan of this service for such long as I’ve been starting a blog. I remember when i first know it is with the word “Feed” at alistapart.com — for people who make website, the site was mention that It was feeding via RSS with a short explaination of what is RSS. Some other site they use Atom or XML like services from Google (Google news, and Blogger) which all work in the same way as syndication service. I’ve got the description for what it is, but was not yet clear on how it work until the Bloglines was born.

Bloglines is a first online feed (RSS, Atom, XML) reader service that let us store and organize our feeds for easy reading as well as explore others. I first adopted this service for storing all feeds that I love to read, but then i’ve found that it is not a right tool for me since I am required to be online to use it and my Internet connection is really limit — i got connect when i am at work, disconnect when off work, so therefore i cannot get all my favorite feeds read using bloglines because time that i can read is when i am off from work. So, i knew that i need a desktop application for this - reading feeds. There were so many already actually like feedReader, RSSReader, Plunk, FeedDemon, Agregator, thunderbird…etc all are cool softwares with a very neat features. So i’ve got em, and was in love with feeddemon until now i am still using it because it has a very neat style like Microsoft outlook program - fast, easy to use, very neat style for reading, but it’s not free.

There is another big two for online reading. They are Google Reader and Rojo! But i can say all cannot compare to Google Reader because it’s excellence application like GMail. Now it has come up with Google Gear which allow users to read offline, the Geer will sysc top 200 contents to local machine so that the user can read it offline. Rojo seems like to be a good place for exploring what others’ reading on a common topics which display on the rojo site- rojo.com.

Let’s explore more => Really Sexy Show!

Update: Too Many Blogs to Read, Get the most active content with AideRSS

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