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What is RSS and how does it work?
Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, works like an email inbox for the Web. It allows you to select information from various Web sites and view them from a single Web page.
The information you select is like tuning your television to a specific channel. Maybe you’d like to keep up on the news by selecting the RSS feed from CNN, or the weather by selecting the RSS feed from weather.com, or your family by selecting your favorite relative’s blog RSS feed…you get the picture.
The cool part about RSS is you’re in control. You don’t need a spam filter to sort out all the junk messages because you’re in charge of what messages you want to see on your RSS reader home page.
Google Reader is an easy to use, free RSS reader. If you’re an RSS newbie, I recommend watching the introductory video posted on the Google Reader site.
Also, this Common Craft video provides a good explanation of what RSS is and how it works.
RSS is the technology that distributes NewsCactus news releases. Journalists and those interested in your company can subscribe to your RSS feed to receive notification in their RSS reader of each news release you post in your newsroom.
Some journalists may still ask for e-mail alerts for new announcements, and we can add an e-mail subscription module to your NewsCactus newsroom if you wish, but RSS is really the technology of the future. RSS makes e-mail list management and dealing with spam messages obsolete.
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