RSS and Learning
If you are responsible for learning/education/professional development/training/communications/PR and have not explored the world of RSS, you really need to.
Check out www.feeddemon.com or any of the other common RSS services (Google “RSS Feeds”to find a listing). You’ll quickly see how powerful this tool is. The beauty of it is that it is a user defined tool, meaning the user determines what sites (and specific sections/pages) are “fed” into the reader.
It is a great way to stay on top of blogs and websites of interest to you. You categorize them in a way that makes sense to you. For example, one of my categories is “Association Blogs”. There I have a listing of about 16 or so blogs from a wide range of authors. I have another category called “eLearning Blogs” where I have about 25 blogs and websites that I track (that have RSS feeds). What’s great is that there is a “newspaper” feature that pulls the headlines from the entire category of blogs (all 25 for example) onto one page so I can quickly scan through titles and see what’s being talked about.
Why couldn’t you help facilitate something similar for your members?
How about creating a web page that simply lists the RSS feeds from your industry/profession? Your organization now becomes the knowledge center for your industry or profession and you don’t have to offer all of the content.
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