Yesterday, Floyd and I gave our presentation on Extending Information Services through Syndication at the NETC conference. After that, we were on the road all day driving back to Iowa and this is the first chance I've had to blog the presenation and put our Powerpoint slides online.

If you're interested in the slides, you can find them here.

Basically, we talked about syndication (specifically RSS, Atom and Web services that use RSS feeds to exchange information automatically) and how people in extension can use it to extend their information services. We talked syndication from two perspectives--as a tool for finding information and as a tool for distributing information.

Many syndication tools are freeware, free online services, or inexpensive shareware. So, syndication is something that can provide a high impact on content availability at a low cost.

More information can be found at the ACE2004 weblog that I did with Ray Kimsey and Blair Fannin. It's got lots of links to aggregators and articles and other resources.

We had good attendance, lots of good questions and could have spent more time on what other people are doing with syndication too.