This is a brown-bag presentation on the use of RSS and Google Reader. Carbon holds brown-bag lunch meetings on Thursdays for the purposes of building a sense of community, learning from each other, practicing our presentation skills, and developing a habit of learning. It is our belief that these things will make us a stronger as a team and as individuals. If you are around our office on a Thursday and you're interested in listening in, please let us know! This presentation is not meant to be a stand-alone document - if you have any questions or comments, please contact us at slideshare@carbondesign.com.

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2. the information age

3. the nineties

4. the technology
• "really simple syndication"
• information formatting standard

5. what does it do?
• data can be easily and automatically collected
• data can be passed between different entities
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6. so... what does that mean for me?
• collect your favorite web pages (feeds) in one place
• when new stuff is posted, you'll know
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7. how do i get the good stuff?
• feed aggregators (rss readers)
• client software

8. how do i get the good stuff?
• feed aggregators (rss readers)
• web-based services

9. google reader setup

10. great. i’m in.
... now what?

11. subscribe to a feed.

12. select your reader (sometimes)

13. really subscribe to the feed.

14. create folders

15. expanded or list view

16. add star to (bookmark) items

17. share articles with people who follow you

18. set up who you follow

19. comments

20. one last tip: use the shortcuts.

21. one really last tip: reader is awesome on the iphone

22. thank you.