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What Is Rss Feeds

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Depending upon who you ask, RSS stand for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary". Irrespective of what you call it, RSS is a way to automatically publish (syndicate) someone else's content on your WWW site. Now don't worry, that's not the same as taking someone else's content. There is nothing illegal about using RSS feeds. In fact, the publisher of the content wants you to have it show up on your site and that's why he or she makes it useable as an RSS feed to begin with.

So what's in it for all parties concerned?

Using RSS is a win-win for both the publisher of the content, who gets their name out to potentially thousands of sites and you, the web site owner who is putting the information onto your site.

Content, by the way, means anything that a publisher decides it means. Usual content includes news headlines, new product update notices, web blog summaries and lots of other stuff. It's the "content" portion of the equation that's good newsworthiness for you.

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One of the best features of hosting RSS feeds is that it gives your site an eternal source of recently updated and crucial content. This content acts as natural search engine spider bait which they will fill their little tummies on and come back for more every day. Their appetence for fresh content keeps your rankings up.

Sticky Loyalty isn't a new Ben & Jerry's flavour, but it should be the objective of any sensible webmaster who wants to create a WWW site that visitors return to over and over again. The use of cautiously selected RSS feeds can make that happen by offering new content which can't be found anywhere else.

Now please don't make the mistake of thinking "But they can get that same content at the publisher's site, why should they come to mine?". Just build it and they will come! Sorry, I couldn't hold from expressing that, but it's true. In addition to the RSS content, which they for sure can get someplace else, you are going to add your own sticky loyalty material that's all about whatever your site is all about to begin with. That combination of your own content and the RSS feed makes visiting you a purely original experience that can't be found anywhere else.

You don't have to be a member of the Geek Squad to start showing RSS feeds on your site.

What Is Rss Feeds

1. Share Resources

Academics are using social bookmarking websites to share quality websites that relate to their area of expertise with colleagues and students.

Examples of Shared Resources: Delicious - http://del.icio.us social bookmarking system, can be setup to use as shared bookmarks, RSS feeds are available CiteULike - http://www.citeulike.org share resources

2. Class Blogs

From elementary schools to university blogs, online journals have flourished. Instructors have used blogging as a teaching tool. Helping students learn writing and reporting skills while understanding how to use technology. Many educational bloggers use RSS as a means to syndicate blog posts.

3. School Schedule Sports Schedule

RSS feeds can be used to communicate events scheduled on or off campus to prospective and existing students. Subscribes of a schools calendar feed receive notification as new items are added to the calendar.

4. Podcast Lectures

Podcasts can be used as study guides or even as class preview for students contemplating their course selections or choice of professors.

5. Monitor Research

Students involved in cutting edge research projects can use RSS to monitor news and search engines for specific keywords (like nanotechnology or coldfusion) by creating search feeds. Any time a mention of the keyword phrase occurs in a news piece the item will appear in the search feed.

6. Professional Development

RSS can be used for remote education. Teachers can lose less class time while still staying current on the latest techniques, trends and information in their field of expertise.

7. Job Searches

Professors and teachers can create job search feeds. The RSS feed will update each time a position that meets their criteria becomes available.

8. Collaboration (writely/wiki)

Universities in particular actively participate in collaborative projects and research. New tools have never made collaboration easier. RSS can be used in conjunction with many of the online collaboration tools to notify other contributors of changes.

9. Search Feeds

Students writing papers or working on research papers on specific topics can create search feeds, so that each time that topic is mentioned they receive notification in their custom search feed.

10. Study Guides

Many websites that are focussed on studying. Have created RSS feeds that contain daily questions. There are feeds for "word of the day" or "problem of the day". Students can subscribe to the feed and integrate long term studying into their daily routines.

11. Medical Education

A study recently showed medial students who listened to heart murmurs on an ipod, were more likely to accurately diagnose heart murmurs accurately in patients. Some medical schools have begun adopting podcasts as a means to educate.

12. Scholarships

Students can monitor high school and college scholarship opportunities using RSS feeds.

13. Grants

Academic researchers can monitor funding and grant opportunities using RSS feeds.

14. School News

Schools big or small can use RSS to communicate school news with their population, announcing staff changes, new courses or any other news that is relevant and of interest to the student population.

15. Student Financial Aid News

Students and parents can listen to podcasts that assist with financial aid, student loans and financial podcasts that tackle difficult topics like how to make college more affordable.

Locate Educational Feeds and Podcasts - http://www.educational-feeds.com

RSS is well suited for the world of academia and educators have embraced it as a medium. Technology and communication for years have helped advance the educational field for years. RSS feeds and Podcasting is a natural fit for academics, and its obvious when we look at how teachers, students and professors are using it to further education.

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