RSS is, according to Wikipedia:
…a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”,[3] or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.
Because WordPress was created as a blog platform, RSS feeds are built in, not only for the whole site but also for your different features and through your organization. For instance, for this site, here are some of the built-in feeds:
- http://emilybarney.classcaster.net/feed/
- http://emilybarney.classcaster.net/questions/feed/
- http://emilybarney.classcaster.net/category/background/feed/
Besides reading these updates, RSS can also be used to integrate updates across other sites – you could show this in a widget in the sidebar on another WordPress site, add them to a LibGuide, post to a Facebook Page’s notes, etc.
I recommend using Google’s Feedburner service to “clean up” and extend these basic feeds, especially for the next step, which allows users to sign up for e-mail updates. Here is what the links above look like after being optimized in feedburner:
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/CALI-casebooks
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/CALI-casebooks/questions
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/CALI-casebooks/background
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