Enterprise RSS day of action

April 24 2008

Today, April 24, has been designated the "Enterprise RSS Day of Action".  This effort was championed by James Dellow, a frequent commentator on the use of Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies in the context of improving buisness.

The goal of this day of action is to raise awareness of RSS's potential benefits within your organization.  I worry slightly about focusing on the protocol itself versus the content and delivery approach, but we can use this to move beyond RSS as a buzzword towards solution-oriented value.

Lotus Notes and Domino customers can benefit from RSS both at the server (RSS template shipped in 7.0.2) and in the client (starting with Notes 8).  John Roling's most recent article for Intranet Journal is entitled, "Utilizing RSS in your Lotus Intranet", which seems quite timely considering today's focus. John writes:

I use RSS every day to subscribe to nearly 300 different blogs and news sites. I would never be able to keep up with that much information if I had to visit every site individually. You'll find that your end-users might feel the same way about your intranet.  There's a lot of information for them, but they don't have time to go and get it all.

Well now they don't have to. Set up some RSS feeds in your organization and you can have all the information come to them. It's extremely useful to your end users, and once again, you can be the hero.
There are many great blog postings and entries in the Entrprise RSS Day of Action wiki.  Newsgator even created a widget to keep an eye on the all the content relevant to the effort:



Check out all the content, and congratulations to James Dellow for successfully leading a very useful community effort!

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  In the news  Add/View Comments [7]

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  1. 1  James Dellow http://chieftech.blogspot.com | 4/24/2008 5:52:56 PM

    Re: I worry slightly about focusing on the protocol itself versus the content and delivery approach, but we can use this to move beyond RSS as a buzzword towards solution-oriented value. That's an issue that's been central to a lot of the conversations I've been having around the Enterprise RSS Day of Action, so you are right to call it out. As someone commented to me the other day about Web 2.0 more broadly, it's easy to bury your head in the sand and only focus on the cool social stuff, but there is technology under the hood that at least some of us need to understand. BTW Thanks for the link to the Lotus article too.

  1. 2  Scott Quick http://www.scottquick.com | 4/24/2008 6:41:30 PM

    Thanks for the focus on value. I've posted related comments on the need to shift the conversation to solving *specific* business problems and delivering *quantifiable* business value here:

    { Link }

  1. 3  Josh http://www.newsgatorwidgets.com | 4/24/2008 8:33:32 PM

    Ed,

    Glad you spotted the widget that NewsGator created for Enterprise RSS day of action. Feel free to follow the new NewsGator widget blog here: { Link } -- or -- follow "newsgatorwidget" on Twitter.

    Best,

    Josh

    Community Manager

    NewsGator Widgets

  1. 4  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 4/25/2008 12:11:59 AM

    Didn't know about this. That said, RSS become a core part of my team's work for the last six months - email alerts come in from a monitored system, get turned into support tickets via an agent, which sets the criteria for a view on which the RSS feed is based (view & column formulas courtesy of Mr Castledine). It's quick, and works on replication rather than mail (aside from the original alert to one address from an external organisation) so there's a vast traffic saving, which is important when the primary support team is located from the customer's operations centre.

    RSS (generated by Domino) is providing a core, solid and reliable business solution for us.

  1. 5  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 4/25/2008 12:14:07 AM

    Oops, missed a bit there. Should read "located far away from the customer's..." Far in this case being the other side of the world.

  1. 6  Daniel Schiavone http://www.SnakeHill.net | 4/25/2008 5:43:24 AM

    Feature Request: Categorize Sidebar RSS Feeds.

  1. 7  Jeff Picco  | 4/26/2008 3:46:44 AM

    I believe that RSS will be a huge benefit at my company. I'm being a bit greedy though and not pushing it until I can get a more robust reader in Notes. We are trying to minimize the number of applications people run in oder to get their data and the current RSS reader is a little minimal for my liking. Some of the work being done will soon resolve that, I'm sure.