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Companies blocking employees from reading RSS feeds

Posted by Patrick on April 17th, 2006

This was a post on one of my favourite blogs today – A Shel of my former self.

Can you imagine working for a company that is so short-sighted that it blocks its employees from reading RSS feeds? Do they not realize that RSS feeds + RSS Aggregators = huge time savings? Hear a few reasons I think these companies are shooting themselves in the foot.

  • They can not easily hear what the market is saying about them and participate in the conversation.
  • They can not easily collect business intelligence by keeping tabs on what their competitors are doing.
  • They do not encourage their employees to improve their skills and knowledge by subscribing to e-learning RSS feeds such as those found at MarketingProfs.com
  • The company is basically saying to its employees that it doesn’t trust any of them. Do you want to work at a company that doesnt trust its employees?

    • The ironic thing about this is that RSS functionality will be built in to Windows IE 7 and Vista. These companies are fighting a losing battle.

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