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I bet you weren’t aware that May 1 is RSS Awareness Day. Now you know.

If you don’t know what RSS is, celebrate RSS Awareness Day by learning a little something about it.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It allows you to subscribe to web content of your choice. It saves you the time and effort of visiting all of your favorite websites. I hope to convince campus colleagues who bombard us with email messages to adopt RSS-enabled communication channels instead. That transition will only take place when a critical mass has bought into the RSS solution.

I subscribe to dozens of RSS feeds in OneStop - my preferred RSS feed aggregator. In a short amount of time, I can scan news and nuggets of wisdom from my favorite websites and blogs. I became aware that May 1 is “RSS Awareness Day” because of an RSS feed. More importantly, I am aware of how some of the smartest, most creative and most visionary people on the planet are shaping the future of communication, education, business and human relationships through technology because their ideas are available to me the minute they are published.

Happy RSS Awareness Day.

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