Web 2.0 Marketing for Wrestling Coaches - RSS
Last week in our series of posts on blogs, we talked about RSS feeds. Just what are RSS feeds?
Here is a great video that will take only a couple minutes to explain them to you. Follow this link to see the video - http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
If you prefer to read about RSS feeds you can go here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
If you want to look at our RSS feed for this blog - you can go here - http://wrestlinggearcom.blog.com//rss/
Basically what a RSS feed does is generate the contet so a RSS Reader can post the information within your RSS Reader. This way you can compile your own web page with all the news you want to track. So say you were a wrestler and you published your own blog. For information on how to create a blog, see last weeks posts...
Okay back to how RSS feeds might help you, so you are a wrestler who generates his own blog and updates it regularly...say with match results, big wins, scores, pins, takedowns, etc. The key is you need to update the blog regularly. You can set up your blog to generate the RSS feed for you automatically. You don't need to know what you are doing other then be able to check a box and turn on the RSS feed feature on your blog.
Then say a coach at Number One University has an account with google or yahoo or any other RSS reader set up. He could keep track of say his top 10 or 15 recruits blog postings just by logging into his google reader. He can see what updates you made to your blog, who you beat, that you made honor roll, been accepted to National Honor Society, etc.
It's great for you because you can publish this content and keep two or three coaches informed as soon as you post your blog. There are no limits to how many people can keep track of your blog, so you could have several hundred college coaches keep track of you if they subscribe to your RSS feeds.
Does not that sound cool? And it benefits the coaches because they don't have to visit 15 websites looking to see if your high school has updated their site recently? Saves time for the coaches and wrestlers and is a great way to stay in touch.
Next blog posting, we'll post some RSS feeds that I subscribe to so you have some ideas on what to put in your RSS feeder to start with.
Here is a great video that will take only a couple minutes to explain them to you. Follow this link to see the video - http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
If you prefer to read about RSS feeds you can go here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
If you want to look at our RSS feed for this blog - you can go here - http://wrestlinggearcom.blog.com//rss/
Basically what a RSS feed does is generate the contet so a RSS Reader can post the information within your RSS Reader. This way you can compile your own web page with all the news you want to track. So say you were a wrestler and you published your own blog. For information on how to create a blog, see last weeks posts...
Okay back to how RSS feeds might help you, so you are a wrestler who generates his own blog and updates it regularly...say with match results, big wins, scores, pins, takedowns, etc. The key is you need to update the blog regularly. You can set up your blog to generate the RSS feed for you automatically. You don't need to know what you are doing other then be able to check a box and turn on the RSS feed feature on your blog.
Then say a coach at Number One University has an account with google or yahoo or any other RSS reader set up. He could keep track of say his top 10 or 15 recruits blog postings just by logging into his google reader. He can see what updates you made to your blog, who you beat, that you made honor roll, been accepted to National Honor Society, etc.
It's great for you because you can publish this content and keep two or three coaches informed as soon as you post your blog. There are no limits to how many people can keep track of your blog, so you could have several hundred college coaches keep track of you if they subscribe to your RSS feeds.
Does not that sound cool? And it benefits the coaches because they don't have to visit 15 websites looking to see if your high school has updated their site recently? Saves time for the coaches and wrestlers and is a great way to stay in touch.
Next blog posting, we'll post some RSS feeds that I subscribe to so you have some ideas on what to put in your RSS feeder to start with.
