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The Social Media Guide
 
thesocialmediaguide.com.au 
©2009
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Really Simple RSS Guide
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has been around for a long time and is a very easy way to benotified of new content on a website.There are two ways you can check for new content on a website.1.
 
Browse directly to that site and see the if there is any new content yourself 2.
 
Subscribe to that site’s RSS feeds and have all new content sent to youThe problem with the first way is if you browse to your favourite site and look for something newand it’s not there, you have wasted valuable time. This is especially so if you have many sites youregularly check.RSS is a much faster way for you keep up-to-date with new content, where new things from all your favourite sites come to you instead.To subscribe to a site’s RSS feed you need an
 RSS reader 
.There are many RSS readers out there and I’m going to show you two.
Firefox
TheFirefox browser has a built-in RSS reader.To subscribe to an RSS feed, firstly go to a site that you would like to receive RSS feeds from,If you want to subscribe to
all
feeds from this site, then
click on the RSS icon
in the address bar,
 
The Social Media Guide
 
thesocialmediaguide.com.au 
©2009
 Page | 2
On the
 Add Live Bookmark 
 pop-up, click on the
down arrow
, then click on the
<ew Folder>
 button.I have also chosen to create this new folder in the
 Bookmarks Toolbar Folder 
(and you will see whyshortly),Enter a
name
for this new folder, then click the
<Add>
 button,You have just created a new folder for your RSS feeds. Now click on the
<Add>
 button again,
 
The Social Media Guide
 
thesocialmediaguide.com.au 
©2009
 Page | 3
Done!You have just subscribed to that site’s RSS feed!And the feeds are located in the folder you have just created, in your 
 Bookmarks Toolbar Folder 
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