What is RSS?

Alright, time to get started on the actual tutorials here on AskAboutSocialMedia.com! The first thing I want to talk about actually has very little to do with what we usually think of as ’social media’ – it’s RSS. But because RSS is a clever way to subscribe to many of the news feeds that are generated by e.g. blogs, it is a handy thing to know about when you are getting started.

So, RSS. The name comes from “Really Simple Syndication” and the easiest way to explain what it is all about is to have you watch “RSS in Plain English” from the Common Craft Show on YouTube. If you get annoyed by the poor sound in this video, go to the homepage of the original video and watch it there instead.

So, that is RSS in one easy lesson for you. Up in the next tutorial: how to set up different RSS readers.