Charlene Doland in her always useful blog, Reflections, Ruminations, and Renderings,  discusses how some students resist tech in her classroom.  In this case, she has reluctant Trello users.

I suggested a few alternatives to Trello in the comments and I created a couple of Google alerts to monitor this issue.  Then I had a vague memory, “Don’t alerts have an RSS feed?”  Indeed they do, so I put Charlene’s alerts in my RSS aggregator.

The link below shows you how to get Google Alerts  into your RSS feeder, in my case, Inoreader.

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Google News is one of the indispensable ways to keep up with the latest developments of your industry, the affairs of your home country or the announcements of your favorite brands. Now you can follow Google News with just a couple of clicks – completely free, like most other search types in Inoreader!

I am very aware of the problem of generating noise online. It is so easy to amplify a signal until it becomes noise. One of my resolutions (along with honoring my friends’ work by archiving) is to advocate for tools that help us filter and make sense of signal. I think Google Alerts combined with an RSS reader can do just that. And they can help us build community and a knowledge commons between each of us.  I only wish that these alerts had a “sunset” provision in them where you could tell it to cease and desist after a set period of time. I will suggest this to the evil ones at Google and see where that signal goes.