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RSS and Your Nonprofit
July 2, 2009
If you find yourself going to multiple Web sites every day checking for updated news, Blogs, and other content, RSS can make your life easier. If your favorite sites make their content available as “RSS feeds”, and thousands of sites do, you can check them all at once using an aggregator.
This means you can keep up with the headlines, policies, trends, and tools that interest your nonprofit, and keep informed about what people are saying about your organization online. The sheer volume of information can pose challenges, too: namely, how do you separate the useful data from all the rest? Using RSS, will bring the information you want most to you.
If you have your own Web site, you can publish an RSS feed or republish other sites’ feeds. Because it is an application of XML, news items from RSS feeds (or channels) can be sliced and diced easily.
Getting started is easy! Check out this 15 minute tutorial that will introduce you to the benefits and use of RSS.
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