Full Circle Associates

Are you building distributed communities, supported by online tools? Check out Alexandra Samuel's10 ways RSS can help build online communities. As I read these ten great tips, I'd add that for each one of them, it is context dependent. For each situation where the recommendation is useful, I can also easily find a contradiction. Alex knows this. But I always feel obligated to be the standard bearer of shades of gray, because I see people really screw up when they take tips as rigid templates. You know what I mean?

Next, after these good tips, the question is how do you promulgate the practice of using RSS. Not every community sees the picture, nor is ready to adopt. It would be great to share some stories of how these things are eased into use. Have a story?