Linked In is another piece of social networking software. Some people I know are using this, including Ruv and Terry Chapman, the IT Director at Fellowship Church.

Chuck Russell sent me to Socialtext and asked my opinion. I’d like to hear from Leo who doesn’t see how this is any different from web-based forum software we’ve had for years.

Another couple of RSS readers to evaluate:
RSS Bandit
AmphetaDesk

Leo says:
simple front end explaining RSS and how to get it – we could model something like this for COR

Clif says:
Yeah, here’s an example of a church-related site doing that

Neil Cox suggests some specific ways we should be using RSS right now

Blogging is new for us. So follow along as our eyes are opened to Web 2.0, RSS, and Blogging. To get high-level survey of what is happening in this technology, check out the following.

“Web 2.0” Companies:
www.flickr.com
www.feedster.com
www.technorati.com
del.icio.us (get it? “delicious”)

RSS readers:
www.bloglines.com
www.pluck.com
www.feedreader.com
www.blinx.com
www.onfolio.com
www.feedroll.com
www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/
www.rssreader.com
www.blogspace.com/rss/readers
www.newsgator.com – (I tried this a while back and decided it wasn’t for me)

Blogging tools:
www.bloggger.com
www.typepad.com
radio.userland.com
www.movabletype.org
www.wordpress.org