"How to" rock through Google Reader!

The amount of information found on the Internet can be overwhelming. You don't have enough hours in the day to sift through everything, let alone absorb everything. As future PR practitioners, we need to be able to absorb everything. So what if there was a way to bring this information to you?

The answer lies in a tool called Google Reader. With no software to download, and nothing but a Gmail account (or any e-mail account, for that matter) to start; it's very user-friendly.

Google Reader makes it easy to gear the Internet towards you. It brings the information of interest from all the World Wide Web to one convenient location.



Using the link, Add a subscription, you can subscribe to any website that offers an RSS feed, ie. blogs, online newspapers, magazines, etc. You can also look for the orange RSS icons to subscribe to a particular page’s feed while viewing the page. (See my RSS link on the right-hand side of my blog.)

Everytime a page you've subscribed to gets updated, the update is sent directly to Google Reader. You no longer have to visit multiple pages for updates!

Google Reader also allows you to share interesting links with friends, and star information to compile a list of your favourites. Cool!

In Public Relations, we need to have information easily accessible to us. An RSS tool like Google Reader is the key to bringing all the Internet has to offer to a convenient place where we can view it as easily as we do our Email.

We can all be Google Reader Rockstars! "How to" information provided by: “How to: Use Google Reader Like a Rockstar” by Matt Singley. Read it here!

For further reviews of Google Reader please see blogs from: Brian, Catherine, and Ginger.

For more "How to" please see Humber PR students' collaboration of links.