RSS Feed Means Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. If you are following certain blogs, you can save yourself time by finding the little orange box with what looks like sound waves. You see if you click it or the text near it, you can have the latest blog sent to you on your blog or RSS reader.  It works like mail.

But what’s a RSS reader? Here’s a quote from a brief explanation at http://www.whatisrss.com/

“A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows – integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.”

I use Google Reader because that was easiest for me. Once set up, blogs that you follow will come automatically to your RSS reader.  And it works both ways!

If I want to visit the recent topic delivered to my RSS reader, I just click that post and RSS takes me back to the blog itself so I can leave a comment.

The beauty of this system is that you don’t have to remind yourself of the blogs you want to visit. RSS brings them to you. You scroll through and the ones that catch your eye, you read and or visit the blog. Easy, right?

So how many of you knew this?

I confess that I didn’t know it till it was explained to me in an online workshop.

Now to have a chance to win one of my books in a random drawing, leave a comment (with your email using at and dot), letting me know if this is old or new news to you!–Lyn

BTW-if you look to the right column near the top, you’ll find that pesky little orange box. Feel like clicking it?:-)