Send this little to all of your friends and colleagues that haven't started using RSS yet. This is a great little primer is from the common craft show: RSS in Plain English Good stuff! Oh yeah! and check out the new USTREAM.tv block in the right column of my blog.

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs?

Many of us techies have been using RSS for years, and you may even run your own blog. This stuff is pretty much second nature to us, and it’s easy to forget that lots of people are still not in-the-know. I think there’s a ton of potential related to RSS in terms of learning and I don’t think many people are harnessing it well (yet).

Shorn of all the hype and the techno-babble that tend to surround it, this, in simple terms, is what RSS is. Click To Play And this is what a wiki is.

One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning . So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS . "In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content.... So in this post, we look at RSS today and ask if RSS is evolving into a tool for delivering complex, semantically rich information.

What I love about this is that it is simple & direct. This got me thinking… Why don’t we have more of these? So I decided to create some more.

While I'm on the topic of enterprise wikis I might as well plug my session for The eLearning Guild's Online Forum that kicked off today: An Introduction to e-Learning: The A to Z for Getting Started Concurrent Session Block 4 Friday, September 21 â€" 8:30a to 9:45a 401 | E-Learning Metrics that Work Bob Dust , Gyrus Systems 402 | Getting Started with e-Learning Standards and SCORM Thomas Winterstein , HunterStone, Inc.

Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don't know where to start.

In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create reference hybrids - Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids - easily and maintain them easily. We will dump Dreamweaver and RoboInfo in favor of Wikis.