
Hi. I'm Howard Lake. I've worked in charity fundraising for 30 years, and published a website for charity fundraisers since 1994. I train and advise charities and companies on digital communications and fundraising. I love sharing some of the practical (and free/low cost) tips I've learned. And RSS feeds are still one of the big secrets that can transform what you do online.
Do you find it takes far too much time to share some of your excellent digital content once you've created it? First you have to post it via Twitter, then to Facebook, and then don't forget to include it in your next email newsletter or update.
Wouldn't it be useful to be able to automate much of this process, so that every time you added a new blog post or new content to your site it was automatically distributed to various channels? And wouldn't it be particularly useful if there was a free tool to help you do this?
Good news. There is. RSS. Really Simple Syndication. You probably recognise its small square orange logo but have never been quite sure what it does.
This course guides you through making the most of it in four key ways:
Once you've set RSS up, it will just run, day in day out, sharing your content to a wide audience in multiple locations.
Think of the time you could save by automating one or more of these tasks.
No coding is required. This really is as straightforward as it sounds.