If the Internet is a Tool for Communication, We Need to Stay Sharp and Hone our Skills at Using This Tool

Today (May 1) is RSS Awareness Day. Who knew?

I did, and I knew because a blog post about it popped up this morning in my RSS feed reader. A part of my job as GIS Coordinator for Delaware (and GIS practitioner for State Planning, and Census Data Person, and aware state employee) is to pay attention to what is going on in these various areas of practice. So I regularly scan headlines, and read content, from blogs, news organizations, and professional organizations. And I do so via their RSS feeds.

And we can and should use RSS feeds to share our information with our various audiences. In Delaware we use RSS to share headlines and items of interest with our constituents. Here on the NSGIC Blog you'll see both State GIS News, aggregated from our members' RSS feeds, and Links by NSGIC Folks, which uses RSS to collect things some of us have found and tagged as "of GIS interest."

Are you using RSS as completely as you could? If you are publishing RSS as a State GIS Coordinator, please let us know via the comments section below and we will add you to the State GIS News feed. Are there other ways we should be using this tool?

Please, share...