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Bookmark it - many of our readers simply bookmark Credit Writedowns, add it to their favorites or set it as their homepage so that every time they log on they see the latest post.
RSS Feed – one of the most popular ways that people follow what goes up on the blog is via a ‘news feed’ or our ‘rss feed’. This technology lets you subscribe to our site and be notified of updates on a variety of tools such as Google’s ‘Reader’ tool, iGoogle, My Yahoo and many other news aggregators and feed readers. If you want to use these to subscribe to Credit Writedowns, you will need to add this feed.
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Weekly Email Updates – if you don’t want daily e-mails, you can still get updates sent to you once a week by subscribing to our “Best of” Weekly Newsletter. You can do this by clicking here.
Outlook RSS Feed – A lot of people use Microsoft Outlook to read e-mails. You can also use Outlook as your RSS Feed Reader. That way you receive posts immediately when they are published, but as if they were actually e-mails. The advantage of this is that you receive the posts as soon as they are written as opposed to waiting until the next day. Microsoft does a great job describing RSS feeds and how to get them in Outlook in its article “Add an RSS Feed“.
Twitter - this is a new one for us. We have gotten one where you can follow us and our thoughts on the economy as well as ask questions (we means Edward Harrison in this case). Please do re-tweet our posts, when you like them because that gives those ideas higher visibility.
Social Bookmarking – The last way that people are using to keep track of the latest posts on the Credit Writedowns blog is via a variety of social bookmarking tools. You’ll notice a few icons attached to every post. If you click on them, each allows you to share the post on one of a variety of bookmarking or social media sites. Some of the more popular ones are Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. In bookmarking our posts you have a way of finding them later when you need them but you also spread the news about Credit Writedowns a little and help us continue to grow. Check out the links – there is a whole other world and growing social community behind them.

I look forward to hearing all your comments and questions. Below you should find some related articles from around the net on all of this if you are interested.

Cheers.

Edward

Related Internet articles
RSS – Wikipedia
Twitter – Wikipedia
Introduction to RSS for Microsoft Outlook – Microsoft
Google Reader
Newbie’s Guide to Google Reader – CNet
Presidential campaigns, journalists share lists on Google Reader – CNet
Why FeedDemon is Better Than Google Reader and Bloglines – Digital Inspiration
Use Google Reader from Within Outlook – Life Hacker
Twitter – Answers.com