Blogging 101 : RSS Feeds

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To leverage social media, you must engage in the conversation. This applies to blogging as well: while people tend to think of it as a “post only” medium, it should be considered another opportunity for dialogue and community building. You should listen and respond to what people say in relation to your posts; and pay attention to what others are blogging about regarding your organization and industry.

With so many voices in the blogosphere and so many sources of information, one of the best ways to pull it all together and organize your sources in one place is to use a reader to subscribe to RSS feeds.

CommonCraft explains it this way:

For our Social Media/Web 2.0 Workshops (hosted by the Houston Arts Alliance at the Houston Technology Center), we use 43marks.com to organize and share both relevant links and RSS feeds. You can also use RSS feeds to bring valuable information into your blog, as we do on this blog in the sidebar widgets.