RSS – Day 3 – RSS at Work
Nov 18, 2009 Social Media & Network Challenge
Week 2: RSS: Day 3
Great. There are a lot of sites that we could use RSS on, but what about at work? How can we use this where it will make a huge impact?
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This is a story I tell often when I talk about these technologies. In a past life one of my responsibilities was to put together a conference for our customers. The first year I did this I introduced the use of some of the tools we are talking about in this Challenge, including RSS. The majority of the work was done in these tools.
For this conference, a number of employees were tasked to create 1.25 hour sessions. The content and tasks were tracked in this tool. Instead of holding a meeting and getting an update as to everyone’s progress, RSS fed it to me. If they were making progress, I saw it. If there wasn’t any progress, I could see that updates were not made. Then I could target that person directly, instead of pulling everyone into meetings or teleconferences and punishing those who were on track.
As software matures, it is not uncommon for them to include RSS feeds. For example, SharePoint,
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