Rachel
A 21 year old photojournalism major, taking pictures of life.
Sane RSS usage. Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica wrote an article on why RSS is bad for you: The first time I went without RSS in August, I simply went around to three or so of what I consider to be the best sites to get the latest news from.
I combined that with my usual e-mail communications … and my regular scans of Twitter in order to figure out what was going on during the day. It was stress-free, and I never felt like I was missing anything—I knew that if something truly important or controversial blew up, I’d hear about it instantly via Twitter and our loyal readers. The next day when I loaded up my feeds, there were literally thousands of items piled up from the day before. … And when I ended up sifting through them all, I realized that I hadn’t missed a single story doing things the “old fashioned” way—rather, by following all these feeds, I was instead seeing hundreds of iterations on the same handful of stories. And I was wasting time going through them all day long. HOW TO: Recover from a Social Media PR Disaster. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
You know that awful, "Did I leave the oven on? " pit-of-your-stomach feeling of dread at a possible screw up? Yeah, well now you can also get that feeling from social media.
Help.