Virtually Here

If you are following more than ten-fifteen sites you may already be set up to take advantage of RSS feeds. RSS feeds allows you to ’stream’ updates from the sites you follow into one convenient location.  So no more jumping around to all the sites you have bookmarked to find out if anything new has been posted - just sit back and let the updates come to you.

The social spin on RSS readers is that many of them also support the ability to share/recommend your favorite sites to other people. I know bloggers that consider RSS feed sharing to be the most powerful tool they have to drive more traffic to their site.

There are, as always, a number of RSS readers out there that have that social aspect to them. The two that I like the most are Google Reader and Toluu. Much of the decision comes down to how you want your feeds presented and how easy it is to import your contacts from other social networks like Twitter, MySpace, etc.

I personally really like Toluu for getting feed recommendations from people in your contact-list and how you add new sites to your feeds. Most all of these sites are free to use so try a few of them out and pick the one that fits you the best.

If you are completely new to the concept of feeds there is a pretty good one minute introduction at Google’s site:

So if you are starting to feel overwhelmed by having to manually check out all of your favorite blogs and sites - do yourself a huge favor and check out one of these feed readers. Then come back and thank me

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