REPRESENT has RSS – U should have it too!
So you want to keep in touch with what’s going on all the time? You like to be the first to know the news? You don’t always have time to surf the net? BUT you like to be on top of technology and keep up to date with what’s going down on the information superhighway?
Answer this: Would you like information from REPRESENT to come to your inbox everytime we update but not to bomba…
rd your email inbox with newsletters ‘coz you’re spammed already?
Is there a sports website you want to keep up to date with so you’re the first to know when the team for Saturday’s match has been announced? Do you like to hear from BBC news everyday so you know what’s going on in the World News?
If you answered YES – then YOU NEED RSS … the revolutionary content driver. We’re gonna tell you what it is and how to get it. It’s really easy and anyone that’s a web freak should have it already.
Don’t forget REPRESENT told you first.
RSS is one of the most popular information sharing systems on the internet It stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary and “is a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content.” Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. “
So in other words – instead of receiving news-letters, you get mini-content summaries from your favourite website everytime they update and you can decide whether or not you want to visit the site for the full article. It’s really useful if there are certain topics, blogs or websites that you are passionate about and that update their content regularly.
To receive RSS feeds you need to use a newsreader – this is either a standalone software program, many of which you can dowload for free, or you can use a web-based reader, such as those now integrated with myyahoo or mymsn.
Our personal preference is a reader which integrates with Outlook because that’s where we spend most of our waking hours – we suggest the trial version of YOU SUBSCRIBE as it’s easy to install – but note that it is still on TRIAL and may not be free forever but there are plenty of others which are established such as RSS POPPER. It’s really easy to install and should take less than 10 minutes. If you’re behind a fire-wall you may have to ask your IT guy to help you do it or just use the web based newsreader .
Instructions on how to get RSS feeds into your mailbox:
1) GO to the following link:
http://www.yousoftware.com/subscribe/
Click on PUBLIC PREVIEW – DOwnload now.
2)This link will immediately open a FILE DOWNLOAD dialog box.
In the File Download dialog box, do one of the following:
– To start the installation immediately, click Open
– To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk – remember where you have saved it – Desktop is always easiest.
WHEN YOU CLICK ON “OPEN” – it will automatically start downloading.
3)When it has finished downloading, a SETUP BOX will open – Close down all windows based programs particularly your OUTLOOK.
4)Click NEXT, read the license agreement, tick YES if you agree and click on NEXT again
5)Keep Clicking NEXT until it is finished.Then click FINISH.
6) It will open up a YOU SUBSCRIBE dialogue box – select some – if any of the websites whose content interests you. Click on at least one so that you can see how it works in your INBOX before you go off and choose the sites like REPRESENT that you would like to stay in touch with.
7) Open your OUTLOOK again. You will see a new folder in your list called You Subscribe. Click on it – Inside are all your chosen RSS feeds – the sites that you have selected to hear from regularly.
8)Look at your control bar at the top – you will see the YOU SUBSCRIBE now in place for you to edit or find out more about.
9)To upload a new RSS feed GO to www.represent.co.za look for out little RSS button on the right hand side, move your mouse over it and right click – you will see an option : YOU SUBSCRIBE – Add Feed – click on this and the feed will automatically be linked into your inbox folders.
10)Just keep an eye on those folders and you will be able to see whenever REPRESENT or others of your favourite websites have been updated. From now onwards, whenever you find a site that you love and is RSS enabled, all you have to do is right-click and add them to your OUTLOOK inbox.
OTHER SA SITES WITH RSS FEED: www.iol.co.za – on their site you can actually select the exact news feed that you want to hear about – no more sifting through the paper to get to the Politics page!
GO FOR IT! Please give us your feedback so we can hear what you think!
