{"id":3704,"date":"2005-03-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/initial-results-from-my-rss-pilot\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T13:00:00","slug":"initial-results-from-my-rss-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/initial-results-from-my-rss-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Results from my RSS Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog, you know that I&#8217;m piloting RSS within my organization.  I started by setting nine co-workers up on Bloglines, and provided them with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagofed.org\/starterset.xml\">A starter set of feeds<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A spiel about the value of RSS<\/li>\n<li>Methods to find feeds on sites<\/li>\n<li>My expectations for people in the pilot<\/li>\n<li>A reference sheet about RSS and where to find help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I heard from the three folks who said no to RSS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeds aren&#8217;t engaging.  I&#8217;d rather browse sites.<\/li>\n<li>Too much information.  I hit &#8220;mark all read&#8221; so I don&#8217;t feel the need to read everything.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t follow particular topics on the Web.  I only read the Onion and CNN.\n<li>\n<li>I like getting news alerts (from Google) better.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t have time to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I observed from the people who say they used RSS and liked it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They didn&#8217;t stray too far from the starter set that I provided them with.<\/li>\n<li>But they also said that finding new feeds wasn&#8217;t hard<\/li>\n<li>Like the other group, they felt overwhelmed by the amount of information delivered in the feeds<\/li>\n<li>They agreed that it was a good way to keep track of sites that don&#8217;t update very frequently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing a couple of things  1) a desire for content  &#8212; six out of the nine liked this form of content delivery, and 2) a request for guidance and vetting of feeds.  I&#8217;m concerned that people aren&#8217;t willing to junk feeds that don&#8217;t deliver the value they expect, or to curious enough to find feeds that will capture the value they need.  I provided feed hunting and pruning techniques, but it&#8217;s obviously not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.  Has anyone else piloted RSS in their organization? I&#8217;d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog, you know that I&#8217;m piloting RSS within my organization. I started by setting nine co-workers up on Bloglines, and provided them with the following: A starter set of feeds A spiel about the value of RSS Methods to find feeds on sites My expectations for people in the pilot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}