RSS is a tool that checks for website/blog/forum updates automatically and then lets you know the changes.  My mum always said that if there was a shortcut or an easier way of doing something - I would find it.  This is the easy way to find out when I have updated my blog or any website that you often refer to is updated. 

So the first exercise is to subscribe to the RSS feed in the right hand column, follow the prompts to set up your feed.  By looking at the settings you can change the frequency which it looks up the site, most applications I looked at had a default of 1 day.

I am using Internet Explorer, so when I have a few minutes I will click on the "radio active" looking button and see any updates to the websites/blogs/forums I have subscribed to.

Have a go - I dare you!!!

Hi, I am on a mission to become a "late adopter" of social media.  Being a baby boomer, I thought it would be useful to share some of my discoveries, frustration and excitement in my social media adventure. 

I am currently a facebooker, although a shy one, at that!  I read and spy on people more than I contribute, but that is going to change over the next few months.  I am getting hooked on it and love hearing about friends and family on a daily basis, but I do wonder if all this facebooking is steering us away from having the old fashioned conversation?  My husband broke his wrist playing soccer a few weeks ago, a year ago I would have had to phone several people and everyone else would have had to find our via the grape vine.  I put it on facebook and the sympathy and well wishes have rolled in - how great is that.

I also think that it is a very useful tool, when travellers go away, you feel so close as they post their photos and whereabouts - information that you would not normally get in detail until they returned. 

BUT, do we put information on facebook that we would or should tell people in person?  How much information can people learn about you from facebook? Not sure - the jury is still out!