RSS feeds for church websites
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Maybe you have heard browsing the internet about RSS feeds. Maybe one of your friend told you that they receive information through such kind of chanels. You may wonder: what is a RSS feed and what advantage it brings to me?
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Well, RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". RSS is a news system in XML format. In order to read RSS feeds you need some kind of RSS readers.
There are a lot of good RSS readers that are published free on the internet. You could try RSS Bandit or you could buy Feed Demon, or you could use the one that Mozilla Thunderbird has.
No matter what reader you use, the protocol is the same.
What is the advantage? Well, there are planty of advantages: you subscribe to those chanels that you want and you stay in touch with all the latest information available.
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You will find some orange rectangles on sites providing RSS, rectangles marked with XML or RSS. Those sites provide RSS feeds.
But the most important thing you could do if you have a church website for example, is not only to stay in touch with information by the use of the RSS feeds but to...provide RSS feeds to your church users!
Yes. Publish your own news, make people subscribe to your news and then feed them RSS news. Give them information , make them stay connected. The main advantage is that you could send information about church meetings, church announcements, etc. You will not need to call everybody or send emails, you just write a feed and all your subscribers will find out about it almost right away.
If you sell things, church gifts, candels, etc, you could put among tehse news promotional announcements regarding this. Imagine sending a promotional offer that will never be treated like spam, you just publish it in RSS format and your subscribers will read it!
Start using RSS feeds, subcribe and publish, find out more about it soon in a new article about it! |
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