Building a successful blog in 2006 depended on building a loyal readership via RSS. In 2011, RSS usage has dramatically declined with many people receiving their news from friends in social networks online or via email. How does one write a great, well-read blog in the post RSS era? In the past, headline writing mattered , but without significant RSS traffic, the need for catchy titles increases exponentially. It has to resonate though the clutter on Twitter, Facebook, groups, usenets, emails, etc., Also, be sure to offer RSS readers an easy way to subscribe. MORE >>

Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. Weve also taken a look in the past at automatic filters such as Feedhub ( our coverage ) which learns from your behavior to suggest posts, or AideRSS ( our coverage and here ), which uses outside metrics to determine which items in an RSS feed are the "best." not via an RSS reader). twitter. MORE >>

Are there blogs that you read regularly that you find so good that you end up sharing every post on Twitter? Twitterfeed and HootSuite offer the ability to take a RSS feed from any site and update it to your Twitter account automatically when new feed items are found. Pros of Automatic RSS Feed Updating. Provide your followers with relevant content that is valuable to them without having to constantly monitor someone’s blog or Twitter account for their latest updates. Now, let’s take a look at Twitterfeed and HootSuite RSS works. Twitter. MORE >>

100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. 100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to get information sent directly to you, eliminating the need for you to that information individually. Using a reader will allow all the RSS feeds to come to one spot for you to read at your leisure. While reading news and blogs has been a traditional use for RSS feeds, there are also tons of fun ways to use these feeds. They will send sections to you each day via RSS feed. Find speed dating events all over the world with this RSS feed. MORE >>

One of the key (business) social media activities in my day is sharing some of the better resources I find on Twitter. Here’s my workflow heading into and around Twitter (times estimate depending on the rest of the day). 30am – Start scheduling tweets from various resources (my private Twitter lists, RSS feed, Alltop , email, Topsy searches). Mid-morning – Check feeds and my private Twitter list of “Aces” and schedule a few more tweets. Small, bite-sized tastes of Twitter. Time elapsed : 2-5 minutes. MORE >>