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RSS Basics for Beginners Only - Or, Just Push the Button!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Golden Girls with SW Desert Homes BR564219000

RSS Basics for Beginners Only

 

I was reading a blog today that talked about RSS feeds and allowing readers to subscribe to blogs, websites, etc.  I had a similar "moment" this week when I discovered something on my tool bar.

I have Mozilla installed on my computer, and there's four lines of "menu" because my tekkie kids set it up for me.  I hardly ever push all the buttons, except some bookmarks that I set up myself like Facebook, Twitter, and the Weather.  I'd add more, but I've already forgotton how I got those on there! 

dog looking at laptop screenAnyway, I was looking at my computer screen, and noticed there was this little RSS feed button on my third line, and then Latest Headlines, another little RSS feed button, and Treking Hiking..., and so forth.

My "moment" was when I realized a blog site I'd just asked to subscribe to, was on this line!  OHhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  I thought when I had subscribed, that I would get an email.  But no, when I click the little button, a whole series of headlines comes down my page in menu form, and I can click on any of them to read.  It's constantly updated.

Now all of a sudden, this RSS stuff is making sense. I wondered how many of my own readers, and I am pretty sure it'd be a large percentage, even know how to subscribe to my blog?  (My husband isn't even a subscriber!) Even myself, I had subscribed to several sites, and didn't even realize there was a button letalone where the button was!

So I wanted to share this RSS Basics for Beginners Only with anyone not particularly tek-savvie:

1.  RSS feed   This little button may be on a blog or a website you are reading.  If you click it, you can choose how you'd like to subscribe, and have the button attached to your taskbar menu, very discreetly. Then you can follow up, or catch up, any time you feel like stopping in again.  How cool is that?!

2.  RSS 2.0 button   This is the other little button I befriended this week.  Go ahead and search for it on web sites of your friends and business associates.  It's on Active Rain, usually on the right somewhere.  This button will display the RSS feed for that view of the blog. 

The best thing you can do is just push the buttons and see what they will do, and if you download either of them, see where the material ends up!

I realize this is very elementary, but I'm betting I'm not the only one out there that doesn't get it all yet.

If I can help someone else toward's this week AHA moment, hurray!  And if you can't see it on your task bar menu, Put Your Reading Glasses on!

 

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Cara Marcelle Mancuso, Golden Girls with SW Desert Homes

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Comments (8)

Bryan Watkins
LRA Real Estate Group - Mesa, AZ

Cara, nice post. I agree to push buttons. You never know what nice things you will encounter.

Jun 20, 2010 05:52 PM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Cara, This is an informative post … cute reading. I must say I was/am distracted by the photo of the adorable dog … I want to reach into the computer and give him/her a treat!

Jun 20, 2010 05:53 PM
Krista Lombardi
Prudential Calfornia Realty - San Diego, CA

It's funny, isn't it?  At first I didn't see why the feed would be helpful until I realized that it would be so much better than swamping your inbox with all the articles you would be getting.

Jun 20, 2010 05:59 PM
Marilyn Boudreaux
Marilyn Boudreaux, Century 21 Bono Realty - Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles LA Century 21 Realtor

Cara, funny funny, it took me awhile to get the hang of it too and I must admit I forget about those RSS on my Mozilla bar myself, oh and I have pairs of readers all through the house office and car too LOL

Jun 20, 2010 06:07 PM
Coral Gundlach
Compass - Arlington, VA
Real Lives. Not Just Real Estate.

Thanks for this info!  I have never really understood what RSS feeds are about.  Will push the buttons now. 

Jun 21, 2010 12:44 AM
Cara Marcelle Mancuso
Golden Girls with SW Desert Homes - Tucson, AZ
Call a Marana neighbor, I'm THERE!

Thanks Bryan!  It's a phrase I use with my mother all the time when she looks fearfully at her computer.  Just PUSH the buttons!

Kathleen - thank you!  I thought the little doggie looked very perplexed, just like I can.

Krista - EXACTLY!  I had never thought of it that way either! I guess those RSS inventors knew what they were doing.

Marilyn - I am addicted to my readers - I think I have 7 or 8 pairs.  My daughter says I need to just get a lanyard thing. Maybe in another 5 years.  Change is hard!

Coral - thanks for stopping by - push push push!

 

 

Jun 21, 2010 04:46 AM
Claude Cross
Homes By Cross, Inc. - Charlotte, NC
Charlotte NC Homes For Sale

Cara - How do you know what's on the other side until you push that button. Excellent post on moving forward and expanding and promoting knowledge

Jun 21, 2010 12:19 PM
Cara Marcelle Mancuso
Golden Girls with SW Desert Homes - Tucson, AZ
Call a Marana neighbor, I'm THERE!

Thanks Claude.  That means a LOT coming from someone who's earned close to 200,000 points.  Thanks for stopping by!

Jun 21, 2010 04:50 PM