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That is a mouthful. And it should be.

In one of Obama’s recent public announcement, he proclaimed the following:

“…in order to restore our financial system, we’ve got to restore trust.”

Obama and his team get it. Does everyone else? Probably. What is everyone else doing about it? Thinking about it? Yes. Taking action? Maybe.

There are a lot discussions on trust going around in multiple circles today and most of it is focusing on the financial institutions. Why is that? Are people fed up with the “old world” of the banking business?

Wouldn’t it make sense to make trust an integral part of the bank agenda? Certainly life and business would be easier for the relationship managers and the executives. And isn’t this what most clients want? A trusted relationship?

For more reads on trust in all the circles, read Trust, Trust, Trust by Charlie Green of Trusted Advisors. He and his team thoroughly cover trust from all perspectives.

Please also see James’ prior post Private Banks’ new journey back to credibility

Trip Allen, Team Egyii, Singapore

Please sing karaoke with us to celebrate the year of the Ox. Your hosts are  Trip Allen, James Irvine and Andy Lau.

Who will sing it best? You? Andy? Trip? James?

Gong Xi Fa Cai KTV

Happy New Year!

Trip Allen, James Irvine and Andy Lau

Team Egyii, Singapore

What is RSS?

Do you want to keep up to date with the latest posts on the Egyii Blog? The easiest way is an RSS feed.

What is RSS?

RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.  This is painful and a lot of work if you have a lot to track.

RSS Becomes Your Digital Librarian

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.

People find the ’subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.

Even non-technical savvy people can use it. At first it may be a little strange to make the change from bookmarking to RSS but once you get started you can’t stop!

How to Use RSS

Get an RSS Reader – The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to get yourself an RSS Feed Reader.

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features – however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader - www.google.com/reader

Google Reader works like email. As you subscribe to feeds you’ll see that unread entries from the sites you’re tracking will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item – marking the last one as ‘read’.

The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Google Reader has  helpful help sections to get you up and running.

Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to – Look for the On Site Subscription
Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs.  Here is what you should be looking for:

Or in some instances, such as The Egyii Blog, it will appear as follows:

Now all you need to do is to start subscribing to some BLOGS. Please comment if you find this helpful.

Trip Allen and James Irvine, The Egyii Team, Singapore

Welcome to 2009. As we light up a new year, the world will be in constant flux and the Egyii Team will continue to bring you new, revolutionary and provoking ideas for the “New World. ”

“Fear is your friend.” Tim Ferriss

Trip Allen and James Irvine, the Egyii Team, Singapore

The ‘best dressed” Asian Santas…

..from Trip Allen and James Irvine, your Egyii Team.

Ho Ho Ho!