How does your organization use RSS?

09-18-2006 3:40 PM

wcook

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How does your organization use RSS or Atom (or both)? Do you use both incoming and outgoing feeds? Share any tips or tricks you've picked up along the way.

New to RSS or want to learn more about it? Check out TechSoup's article Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS Feeds to find out how you can help your constituents stay on top of news and announcements. Share your questions and feedback here.

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09-26-2006 2:16 PM

tintjb

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RSS Feeds are included in the software package from Click & Pledge free of charge. The Company has a service agreement with EvolvePoint.com.

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RSS part of our Community Corner Package

09-26-2006 6:20 PM

mielniczuk

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We offer a comprehensive, low cost community building and web presence package for non-profits that is built on a customized version of Telligent's Community Server.

Each module, the photo galleries, blogs, forums, file sharing, and blog rollers have built in RSS and ATOM feeds turned on at the option of the site admin.

see http://www.itscooperative.com/community/ and check out the Ext News link to see content being aggregated from multiple public sources.

If you create an account for yourself, you can configure a personal RSS Reader.

These capabilities make it easy to share information and keep members on your organization's site in contrast to building ad revenue for others.

Note: apologies to anyone offended by our self-reference; do check our example first.

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10-14-2006 10:24 AM

masakas

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thank you for a great article.
Feed Editor by ExtraLabs is great RSS feed creation tool. tested by me.

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10-16-2006 6:12 AM

jacku

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While we don't use it currently ourselves one package that has good built in support for RSS feeds is Plone. I mention this in part because there has been some discussion of Plone leading up to the Plone conference later this month.

Plone, an open source content managemet system (CMS), provides sitewide syndication. Including providing folder listings, smart folder/topic listings and search results as feeds. There are also several add on products (blogs, etc.) that either provide their own feed mechanism or tap into this site wide syndication. The one thing that is probably the most interesting way to generate an RSS feed is via the search mechanism. Once you have issued a search query you get an option on the results page to make an RSS feed of this page. The resulting feed URL is the search URL meaning that any update of the feed will rerun the search getting new information.

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10-16-2006 5:20 PM

bsatterfield

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Glad you found the article useful masakas.

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10-17-2006 6:48 AM

caribou

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I put an RSS feed on our site this summer for news and a blog, and it's been quite popular among visitors.

However, the staff are baffled by it! I've heard everything from "I don't know what this is, it will confuse everyone so we should take it off the site" to "Someone hacked our site! There's an orange button on it!"

Is RSS that confusing? Maybe I'm not explaining it properly.

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04-28-2007 7:10 AM

DonnaSimp

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I agree with everyone else that it was a great article.

I have tried out a couple of creation tools including Feed Editor however in my opinion Flaremaker is by far the best one.

Flaremaker has so many options including publishing your own feeds (squirts out the html which is great), RSS Signatures and this cool iCalendar feature.

Donna

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05-17-2007 6:53 AM

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We use mysitefeed.com to Create RSS Feeds for websites and get them indexed quickly by Google.

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