The team at Common Craft are well known for their videos that explain high tech topics in plain English. I just watched one of their newest additions, Podcasting in Plain English, and am posting it here for you to learn from too.

Have a great weekend.

May 1st is RSS Awareness Day! In celebration, let’s start off with the best explanation of RSS ever from the folks at Common Craft.

Once you understand what RSS is, you need to find your favorite aggregator. Personally, I prefer Google Reader, but I know many who swear by Netvibes, Pageflakes and Bloglines. (Here is a full list of feed aggregators). This allows you to stay up to date on your favorite sites from one convenient site.

More fun RSS tools:

• A huge compilation of free RSS icons of all shapes and sizes for you to use on your site
• Feedburner - the ultimate tool for managing, publishing and monetizing your feed.
• Mashable has the ultimate list of 120 RSS Tools with everything from readers, plugins, hacks, and such to help you get the most of your feed.

Happy RSS Day! Don’t forget to hug your chicklet today!

The more blogs I read, the more great information I find! And this week, there have been some posts that are just too good not to share with you!

How To Get More Text Link Sales by John Chow

16 Must Read Articles to Get the Most out of Your Blog by the Wrong Advices

8 Ways to Turn Negative Feedback into an Opportunity by Wendy at eMoms At Home

Best Ever Explanation of RSS - thanks to Dawud and David for sharing this excellent video

Need a Website or Redesign? Here is our process. by Prime Marketing Blog - while this is their process, it is similar to mine, and anyone who is considering a new site or redesign should really have a sense of what goes into the whole thing!

And another tool for helping you maximize your web site’s performance - Small Buisness Hub’s Website Grader - thanks to Deziner Folio for the tip!