I’m a huge fan of Google and gradually it seems to be taking over my working day, rather than logging straight into Outlook in the mornings, I’m logging straight into my Google account.  Here I check my own and client calendars, check my emails, create maps to go with client itineraries, get distracted, etc.  Now I’ve started using Google Reader as well and it’s great.

Go to  www.google.com, click on ‘Reader’ and get started.  All you need to do is subscribe to content updates, or ‘feeds’.  To do this click on the ‘Add Subscriptions’ icon on the top left of the screen and type in the url of the site you want to subscribe to.  If there is an RSS feed from the site Google will automatically add it to your subscriptions.  The other option is to subscribe directly from the site you want to follow by looking for the orange RSS icon.  Now instead of browsing the web seeing if there’s anything new on my preferred blogs and sites, I can just log in to my Reader account. 

It’s also a great way to store articles that you want to keep or refer to again.  If you come across something you really like, just tag it with some appropriate words and then you can quickly find it when you need it.