Comments on: Feed stat’s http://specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/ A blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:12:37 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kevin Howard http://specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-91657 Kevin Howard Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:30:17 +0000 http://www.specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/#comment-91657 Michael, I believe Australians are regarded as early adopters of new technology, especially when it comes to communications technology. I think if you conducted a broad survey of corporate US, UK and Australia, and excluded the the software and web development industries, you would find RSS uptake is at similary low levels in each country. Don't get me wrong, I think RSS is brilliant, but I also think it's going to take a long time before the majority of people even know what it is. Is there an RSS reader in Outlook 2007? - that could make a big difference, providing it's not buried in the product where no one will find it. It would help if it's compatible with earlier pre RSS 2.0 standards, but seeing what they have done with IE 7, that's unlikely. With respect to the blog you mentioned, - don't believe everything you hear from "Unemployed Blog Searchers" :) Michael, I believe Australians are regarded as early adopters of new technology, especially when it comes to communications technology.

I think if you conducted a broad survey of corporate US, UK and Australia, and excluded the the software and web development industries, you would find RSS uptake is at similary low levels in each country.

Don’t get me wrong, I think RSS is brilliant, but I also think it’s going to take a long time before the majority of people even know what it is.

Is there an RSS reader in Outlook 2007? – that could make a big difference, providing it’s not buried in the product where no one will find it. It would help if it’s compatible with earlier pre RSS 2.0 standards, but seeing what they have done with IE 7, that’s unlikely.

With respect to the blog you mentioned, – don’t believe everything you hear from “Unemployed Blog Searchers” :)

]]> By: Michael Specht http://specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-91604 Michael Specht Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:46:39 +0000 http://www.specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/#comment-91604 Interesting statistics Kevin it would certainly indicate you are right around the acceptance in Australia Australia. Ben Barren (http://benbarren.blogspot.com) has been lamenting the slow take up of these new fang dangled technologies in Australia as well. Ben now feels Australia might be 3-5 years behind the others, when before he was touting 2-3. Interesting statistics Kevin it would certainly indicate you are right around the acceptance in Australia Australia. Ben Barren (http://benbarren.blogspot.com) has been lamenting the slow take up of these new fang dangled technologies in Australia as well. Ben now feels Australia might be 3-5 years behind the others, when before he was touting 2-3.

]]> By: Kevin Howard http://specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-91558 Kevin Howard Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:21:50 +0000 http://www.specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/#comment-91558 Sorry, I meant to say that your increase in subscribers may in part also be attributable to the production release of IE7 which subtly introduces the masses to RSS. Sorry, I meant to say that your increase in subscribers may in part also be attributable to the production release of IE7 which subtly introduces the masses to RSS.

]]> By: Kevin Howard http://specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-91555 Kevin Howard Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:16:33 +0000 http://www.specht.com.au/michael/2007/02/18/feed-stats/#comment-91555 Michael, It was you who suggested we add RSS feeds to the Jobs in HR web site, which we did about a year ago (?). We publish our feeds through Feedburner, again on your suggestion, but through Feedburner, we also found Feedbitz, so we re-pubish our RSS feeds as daily and weekly email feeds through Feedblitz. About 1250 people have subscribed to our RSS feeds (in addition to the 6500 that already get our weekly email bulletin), however 98% of these people choose to get the information via Feedblitz, in other words by email. This suggests that RSS has a long way to go to reach a reasonable level of acceptance in corporate Australia, (which is where the bulk of our audience is from). Michael,

It was you who suggested we add RSS feeds to the Jobs in HR web site, which we did about a year ago (?). We publish our feeds through Feedburner, again on your suggestion, but through Feedburner, we also found Feedbitz, so we re-pubish our RSS feeds as daily and weekly email feeds through Feedblitz.

About 1250 people have subscribed to our RSS feeds (in addition to the 6500 that already get our weekly email bulletin), however 98% of these people choose to get the information via Feedblitz, in other words by email.

This suggests that RSS has a long way to go to reach a reasonable level of acceptance in corporate Australia, (which is where the bulk of our audience is from).

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