Copyright 2005 Rok HrastnikContrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, although blogs are what made RSS so popular.
In fact, RSS can be used to deliver a great variety of content and content types. If you can break down your content in to individual stories or individual pieces, you can deliver it via RSS.
Just to give you an impression of
power of RSS, here are some examples of content you can publish using it …
--> MarketingVOX is using RSS to deliver internet marketing news to their readers as it becomes available. Instead of having to wait to receive all
news in a single e-mail newsletter, RSS users get them as soon as they are ready.
--> Amazon.com is using RSS to announce their bestsellers and to help their users keep track of releases they are most interested in.
--> Some affiliate managers already communicate with their affiliates using RSS. You can of course use it to communicate with any other target audience as well, such as your employees or team-members, and even your company owners.
--> FindSavings.com uses RSS to deliver savings coupons and related information.
--> Lockergnome uses RSS to provide visitors with
latest downloads and relevant software. Yet again other companies are using RSS to deliver product updates and patches directly to their customers, just as they become available.
--> A few hundred content publishers are using RSS to deliver audio content, such as .mp3 interviews and even “radio” shows.
--> Textamerica.com allows people to post pictures, videos & text from their mobile phones and then make this content available via RSS feeds.
--> Other companies are using RSS to deliver whitepapers and other educational content.
--> One company uses RSS as a consulting billing awareness tool. The consultants create activity reports and
RSS feeds from
activity channels carry
billable information to
accounting staff for invoice preparation.