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RSS Feeds
"Really
Simple Syndication"
Do you check favorite websites every day to see if they've been updated?
Does it feel like you're looking into an empty refrigerator, hoping that food will magically appear?
RSS allows you to keep track of updates to favorite websites in one location.
When a website is updated, a headline appears describing the change.
Also tells you if it hasn't been updated (e.g., "No updates last 3 days").
Click the headline to go to the site.
Advantages:
Saves time! No need to visit individual websites.
RSS allows church members to stay up-to-date on changes to their website.
RSS extremely useful for research and news updates.
What do I need to read an RSS feed?
Many websites have links labeled "XML" or "RSS" or "Atom."
Allow you to track updates to a site without having to open the site in your web browser.
Personalized home pages—My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, My MSN, My AOL—allow you to read RSS feeds.
Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari have built-in RSS readers.
Internet Explorer:
When you open a page that enables RSS feeds, the logo
near your address bar turns from grey to orange
Click the down arrow
to the right of the logo. A list of available feeds appears.
(Don't worry about the difference between Atom and RSS; either works!)
Click any feed and
you'll be taken to a preview. Then click
Subscribe to this feed.
To view the
feed: click the star icon
on the far left of the browser window. Click the orange "feeds" logo
and enjoy!