News, blogs, shops: how to keep up with the updates!

The internet has drastically changed the way we communicate, receive news and access information. With lives becoming busier and internet content growing exponentially, we need to filter the information we are interested in to minimise our time spent browsing or searching. This is where web syndication becomes your ally.

Here are some tools that should help you read online efficiently and not miss out on updates.

By liking a page on Facebook, you will get notified whenever the page is updated. For example, you can click on the "like" button on our PF Systems Facebook page and you will be notified whenever we post bits of news on our wall. Of course, you need a Facebook account for this one.

If you have a twitter account, you can follow people to get their tweets and news. For news updates, you can follow ABC news, Reuters news... By following companies/brands you like, you get updates on promotions, special products, new stock, one day discounts. This is handy if you don't want to miss out. You can follow us on twitter, we will share with you some tips about computer use, interesting news about technology and everything we think is worth a tweet.

If you read blogs, you can use Google Reader to subscribe to their RSS feeds. Then, you will be able to read new articles posted on all your favourite blogs from Google Reader, rather than having to go to each individual blog. In order to use Google Reader, you need a Google account. Once you sign in, on the top menu under the "more" tab, click on Reader to get started.

First of all, you add subscriptions to blogs or websites (they must have RSS feeds). Then, all the latest articles are shown in "All items". You can choose to have them displayed within a list (it just looks like an inbox with read/unread items) or if you click on expanded, you will have a view of all the full articles, just like a parent blog with all the children being your subscriptions.

You could subscribe to pfsystems.blogspot.com to be notified of our latest articles or subscribe to theage.com.au to follow the news.
Blog Lovin is another website allowing you to manage the blogs you follow. You have to create an account, log in, and then you will see all the articles from your subscribed blogs.
And don't forget that you can use Google Reader and Blog Lovin on your phone too (download the apps to read on the go).

So don't waste your time, let the news come to you.