Via the Copyblogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-sell-rss/
Recently released studies re-affirm that people love getting content by email, and don’t get why they should switch to RSS. Of course when you ask the question “Do you want to aggregate RSS feeds?” and get a negative response, it’s as if you had asked “Do you want to access Web pages with HTTP?” in 1995 (good one, Scott!).
Regardless, people simply don’t like change. And when you tout RSS on the basis that it does the exact same thing as email when it comes to content delivery, you’ll get nothing more than a shrug and a blank look.
The way to sell RSS is to tell people why it’s better than email for them.
Or, as Kevin O’Keefe of LexBlog correctly commented, RSS “beats email all to heck.” Now, we just need to tell people why.
And I agree that we’ve got to stop calling it RSS. It’s just not going to fly with the masses.
I’m warming up to “content feed” myself. What do you think?
Another good term. I think I need to update some slides in my presentations. And training librarians, maybe it’s time to revamp your presentations as well! Try “content feed” on for size and don’t forget “textcasting!”