A now "deceased" website on RSS marketing and RSS publishing - a look at the history of internet marketing

Rok Hrastnik

A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

Rok Hrastnik [to contact and/or follow me: LinkedIn l Facebook]

 
[23.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Lacking Podcasting and Videocasting Tools: QuickTime 2 RSS

While podcasting and videocasting offer many benefits to marketers, there's still no streamlined solution to make the process as easy as 1-2-3. Is Apple coming close with their rumored QuickTime 2 RSS tool?
 
[23.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

More on RSS and Copyright Issues: Still No Solution

Copyright and RSS have always been a big issue, since RSS makes it so easy to take content from content producers, display it in full on your website and use it to generate more traffic, search engine juice and especially make money by placing ads next to that content. It's certainly inviting for marketers to take advantage of this RSS capability and it's also understanding from publishers to want to protect their content in some way. The problem is that there is still no clear consensus on what's wrong and what not.
 
[23.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Internal Out-of-the-Box RSS Systems

Not everyone in your organization may care about RSS, but that's no reason you can deliver your relevant internal content to them via this channel. The solution, as demonstrated by the Irish Health Services with their RSS for Emergency Planning Initiatives, implemented by Nooked, might be to offer a desktop alert system, running on RSS in the background, to deliver only the highly relevant "official" information to internal staff.
 
[18.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Making RSS More Usable: Attention

The Syndicator Blog from IDG (sorry, no actual author referenced) writes about what most of us are experiencing - content overload from our RSS Readers. But perhaps uknown to the general population, the solution is coming very soon.
 
[18.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Promotion for Authors

How book and audio authors and artists can promote their work via RSS?
 
[18.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Oh, The Stress of Re-Developing Your Site

As I'm sure you've noticed posting frequency in the RSS Marketing Diary has slowed down considerably during the past month or so. Part of that is due to the undergoing work to re-develop this site. If you have any ideas or requests, please let us know.
 
[12.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

BBC: Great Example of How to Promote Your RSS Feeds

One of the key elements of the RSS marketing game is actually getting people new to RSS to subscribe to start using RSS and subscribe to your content. In this regard, BBC has done a huge leap forward and can serve marketers as real inspiration on how far to go to help their visitors "cope" with RSS.
 
[12.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Personal Communications via RSS Doomed?

A new service promises two-way personal communications via RSS. A great idea or a lost cause?
 
[12.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

FeedForAll Demonstrates How Desktop RSS Vendors Can Compete

The one problem facing desktop RSS publishing tool vendors is the lack of advanced RSS marketing and publishing features, which can only be provided via server-side scripting and cannot be packaged into a standalone desktop application. But there is a solution ...
 
[12.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

eCommerce RSS Radio Show Debuts

The first eCommerce RSS Radio Show just aired yesterday, featuring Doc Searls and his insights into the new marketplace and what marketers need to do to stay in the game. Free audio recording should be available ASAP.
 
[07.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Email (Newsletter) Publishing Predictions For 2006

Christopher Knight of EmailUniverse.com shares his insights on e-zine marketing and publishing in 2006, giving the "prediction sport" some great actionable tips, which also include a new tip on using RSS for e-zine publishing.
 
[05.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

The Best of RSS Marketing in 2005

If you're looking to start using RSS in your marketing or want to expand on your knowledge and get some additional ideas, here are our top RSS Marketing articles and tips of 2005.
 
[05.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Get Your Content Easily Published on Other Sites

Does anyone still remember that RSS was also supposed to be used to make it simple for publishers to share and display their content on other sites, to bring them additional visibility, credibility and targeted traffic? We now finally have a tool that makes this easy ...
 
[05.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Popular RSS Extensions in One Place

One of the great things about RSS is that it's easily extendable through the use of "namespaces" - simply new custom elements or tags that work with the existing RSS specification - allowing developers to create their own additions to the RSS format.
 
[05.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Marketers: What To Focus On In 2006

From behavioral targeting to internet marketing processes optimization, here's my short list on what to focus on in 2006.
Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS