Send this little to all of your friends and colleagues that haven't started using RSS yet. This is a great little primer is from the common craft show: RSS in Plain English Good stuff! Oh yeah! and check out the new USTREAM.tv block in the right column of my blog.

One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning . So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS . "In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content. However because the basic ... look at RSS today and ask if RSS is evolving into a tool for delivering complex, semantically rich information." Read the entire post if you want a brief primer into the background of why RSS is important to Learning ...

I've often talk about the similarities between learning and marketing. I have a handful of marketing related RSS feeds that browse periodically. One of them is RSS Marketing . The author Roy Hrastnik finally took the dive into Secondlife in search of marketing goodness in the virtual world. His posts are great lists of the corporate activities going in Secondlife: Second Life 1: Does Second Life Hold "Real" Marketing Value? Second Life 2: How Can Marketers Take Advantage?

Many of us techies have been using RSS for years, and you may even run your own blog. This stuff is pretty much ... ton of potential related to RSS in terms of learning and I don’t think many people are harnessing it well (yet ... relevant information while on the job? RSS provides an excellent framework for distributing information to groups of ... hurdles to jump before we can get there. What are some of the obstacles we face in using blogs and RSS readers at our organizations? First, blogs and RSS don’t get much respect in the enterprise. Now, I know many companies ...

502 | An Introduction to Blogs, Wikis, and RSS - New Technologies for e-Learning Brent ...

For those who are interested... On Bloglines and Google Reader I've been successful copying my home page URL and pasting it into the subscribe area of the appropriate reader. My home page: http://in-the-middle-of-the-curve.blogspot.com/ I just tested this on Bloglines (dang - who knew I had 19 subscribers...) At some point I'll getting around to putting in a formal RSS feed thing. For those of you reading this directly off of my site - thanks for reading. Recommendation: DEFINITELY try Google Reader or Bloglines. I've been using Google Reader. Blog reading is more efficient ...

RSS Session is LIVE! Originally uploaded by Brent Schlenker .

I've got my brain tuned into RSS these days and so I'll point out several good RSS posts as i find them. marshall kirkpatrick has a good post titled Introduction to RSS syndication .  This is a short simple read, but very insightful.

Second test of RSS DEMO Originally uploaded by Brent Schlenker .

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic ... gone and you often hear - "Why didn't we get rid of them a while ago." The same is true of RSS feeds. I've ...

Steve Woodruff and Karl Kapp put together a great aggregation of Training Blogs on PageFlakes . So, if you don't want to mess around with aggregators and making your own little world of opt-in opt-out content, and you'd rather kick it old school...then just bookmark this little gem and you'll have a very good connection to the training world.

AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest. It provides a widget that allows you to show your top posts for month or year. You can see what it thinks are mine in the right column of the blog. I've been creating similar information manually for a while, so it's nice to have an automated support for it. I've not quite figured out how to take a very large list of blogs, e.g., all edublogs, and have it filter those down. It imports OPML, but the interface ...

A while ago, I created a feedburner feed for this blog so I could add lots of stuff to the feed - most importantly I publish a daily summary of my new del.icio.us links. It appears that most people still point to my Blogspot feed. I would suggest that readers of this blog might want to change over to the FeedBurner feed to get this added functionality: ...

With the new Guild website you will find the  RSS feed for the eLearning Insider .  Learning2.0 and the Web2.0 tools that support it are for YOU, the instructional designer, as well.  While its great that you might implement blogs, wikis, and RSS for your school, company, or organization, its even more important that you start using these tools yourself as personal development tools.  Its up to YOU to investigate changing your daily habits and workflow.  How ... this shift.  The biggest thing you can do without feeling like you are exposing yourself to the world is aggregating RSS ...

Here is another video from Common Craft . This is a great representation of how simple an explanation need to be to teach a concept. I wonder how long it took to develop? Click To ...

... to me.  RSS has the potential to become the next learning pipeline, and OPML is just a piece of that. I will definitely be working this into my RSS presentation (session 411) at DevLearn2006 .

I just read this post from Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion . xFruits looks tasty. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Now with one publishing location you can turn that RSS feed into any format for any device for any purpose. At least that's what I want to do. Now I need to sign up and see if it works. Anyone else see the learning distribution potential here?

Wow!  Can anyone guess what I'm going to say about this bombshell ?  Yea! That's right!  Learning!  Amazing opportunity to be completely connected to, and pulling, content that you are interested in as it is evolving over time.  There are still plenty of folks that just don't participate in the Web2.0 world and all I can say is that you are missing out.  If we are to be the life-long learners we want to be, then you can't possibly have a better way of doing it than with RSS connections to the world.  If you have a better solution, I'd love to hear it.

My RSS Feeds . This model seems to be working out well for me.

I saw this over the weekend but can't remember where it was. This morning my reader had a post from Beth's Blog with the videos. Don't forget to bookmark, print, email, highlight, frame, make a book, or bronze the outstanding RSS post by Michael Pick as well. Beth points to this one in her post as well. It's probably old news but I often need reminders about great content that is out there. So, I hope you'll figure out a way to use Micheal's RSS post to help drive your RSS solutions in your learning environment. Powered by ScribeFire .

I had a fun discussion last night with several friends / colleagues. We were trying to hypothesize why so many (e)Learning 2.0 initiatives don’t get the traction we would expect, both at our organization and at other organizations. Several of us learning tech geeks see such great opportunities with learning 2.0, but it sometimes feels like others just don’t get it . We have fantastic tools at our disposal, like blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, RSS, etc. - and many of these tools are free. However, it feels like we’re pulling teeth when we try to make a business ...

... username to the tags.  My RSS feeds now pick up anything tagged with my username. Below is a snippet of my ...

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSS ...

Tēn� koutou katoa Welcome to you all courtesy make your own comic Inspired by Kevin Hodgson's lead , I'm following Clark Quinn's idea of overcoming perceptions of lack of substance in using comics. In the past month my RSS reader has been cascading with new posts and my comment tracker effervesced with new comments bursting at the brim. I thought these applications always fizzed like that. But of course, I only installed my RSS ... the way he uses the RSS to support classroom teaching and work as technology liaison, not to say too much ...

I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create reference hybrids - Shift in ...

From ZDNet is the article RSS: The new intranet protocol? RSS is the LMS killer! Why? Because it looks like LMS providers have been wanting to become all things to all people by trying to add KM, eLearning, ILT management, learning2.0, etc. all into one package. It's not necessary when IT departments are deploying the informal learning tools behind the firewall. An LMS should simply track usage stats for the small amount of remaining courses and then somehow try to get a data collection point around the informal learning that is occuring. I don't know that answer to that one but ...

I will be giving a session during next month's Online Forum: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 Technologies . My session is titled RSS: The New Learning Pipeline . Clear your calendar for the 18th and 19th of September. Its going to be fun!!! I believe RSS technology is the most misunderstood of all the technologies in a Web2.0 world. While many may never need to know what it is, as an e-Learning designer/developer/manager it is critical that you understand how it works and how it impacts your job...and your life. I love presenting this session because it gives a chance to focus ...

I found this to be interesting at first and then the Duh!? moment hit.  Let me explain... I have subscribed to the MAKE magazine feed in iTunes ...mostly for the video stuff.  (While I have a secret desire to hack apart old electronics, and create DIY marshmallow guns out of PVC , alas it is hard to find the time. )   But I've noticed recently that they are feeding PDF files...hmmm.  Okay, never thought of that.  So, that's only part one of this post (PDFs via RSS).  The first PDF fed my way via RSS led me to the next part. Part two is cool.

Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together ... being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create ... ; 0 comments links to Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Permalink: Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Bookmark this page ...