RSS stands for (Rich Site Summary) which is a simple way to deliver web content. News websites, blogs, and other oline publications usually have their content available for RSS.

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RSS turns out to be this great time-saver. You can subscribe to all these different news feeds and put them all in one place. The most popular reader is Google reader, my favorite. It’s easier to get your ow reader, just go to http://www.google.com/reader/ and follow the directions.

Now, instead of having to go to all these different news websites and blogs, you can have them all in one place. I know a lot of folks who will save all the updates from their reader and read them one day of the week or a few minutes a day.

Try it out and see if it doesn’t make your life a little easier.

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• Squidoo, Seth Godin’s marketing animal

Squidoo is one of those marketing tools you don’t hear too much about in all the social meda hype. It’s almost a secret to some, but I’ve been curious about it for a while.

Basically Squidoo is made up of single lens (a free web page) that you can edit and draw people to (for example, linking it through your Twitter account).

For example, I created a lens labeled “Why Portland, Oregon is so great” inserting my own text and Portland photos from Flickr.

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The main modules that make up your page are:

-Text ( basically chunks of text created by you)
-RSS (just like a blog)
-Photo (bring in photos from Flickr and other photo sharing sites)
-Guestbook (get feedback from others or turn it into a Q&A)
-Amazon (choose products and make $ when products are purchased through you)

There are other modules as well, but these can get you on your feet.

You are encouraged to write about your passions, hobbies, yourself, etc. These lens are just another great way to generate traffic to places you like to funnel followers and customers.

How does Squidoo stay afloat? When a money changes hands through your lends -  you receive 50%, 5% goes to charity and the rest to Squidoo.

Squidoo provides tons of suggestions on ideas, ways to improve your lenses, a newsletter for tips/tricks, and much more. Overall, it looks like a great tool to take advantage of amongst all the social media tools.

I also have the option to add modules such as Amazon products (one of the ways to make money through Squidoo). Other modules include guestbook, other text inserts, and linking to other lens. Squidoo provides complete stats about who is coming to your lens, etc.

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