Virtual Cafe

To use it, one first needs to get a feed reader (sometimes called a news aggregator). Since everyone has different needs, it is best to do a bit a research and check functions/reviews to find the best one. These programs are usually free and are either installed on a desktop or used from a web browser. Once it is setup, a person simply clicks on the RSS icon of sites of interest that offer feeds and subscribes.

Since they bring updates directly to the user, there is no need to go to multiple web sites, and the person can know almost the instant new information is posted. Also, the information can be tailored to the user’s likes so there is less need to wade through stuff that is not of interest. People can receive exactly what interests them from multiple websites in one convenient location.

With everything from podcasts, blogs, news, video and weather available, they can offer something for everyone and save time.

They are also a great tool for people working collaboratively on an online project. With RSS feeds, everyone can know exactly when something new is added and what each person is doing.

RSS stands for “real simple syndication” or “really simple syndication.” All that means to you is that you can go to a website that has that little RSS button on it, click on it, and it will now be put into what’s called an RSS reader or a newsfeed reader. Google has that set up for you. It’s free, and once you’ve selected that, now when you look at your reader, it will automatically pull up every RSS feed that you have signed up for.

So what does that mean to you as an orthodontist? Well that means that if you put an RSS feed on your website, every time somebody comes to your website or more likely your blog and says “yeah, that RSS feed, I’ll click there, I’ll sign up for it, and I want to receive a notice every time you do something on that blog.”

No matter what it is, they’re going to get that information immediately in their reader. So, you put something on your blog, and it is updated on all of these RSS feeds.