What is an RSS Feed?
An RSS feed (acronym for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication), provides a summary of the content generated on a website. It takes the title of an article, followed by an image if there is one, the date and time, name of the author and principle keywords or a summary of the text, and presents this to users. This system allows news sites and blogs to diffuse a summary of their content in real time. Using an RSS reader (available with Firefox, Safari, Opera, RssReader, etc.), an Internet user can consult the various titles of the latest articles on a given site or blog, and then should they find a news story or blog post particularly interesting, they can go directly to the site itself to read it in its entirety. Your new articles will be automatically included if you have an RSS feed for your site. Unfortunately we cannot index sites that do not have this. If you want to publish a scoop or breaking story on Wikio, you can do so by using our publication tool: http://www.wikio.c
RSS allows users to subscribe to websites. New information that has been generated or updated on the website is delivered to the subscribed user as a list of new articles. These contain a brief description of the article and a link to the full version. To read an RSS feed you will require a feed reader that can receive and organize the information, sometimes referred to as an aggregator. There are numerous feed readers available but one of the easiest to use and freely available is FeedReader. The Solihull College RSS feed delivers information about new or updated intranet items, new resource updates (such as new software for use, useful websites and elibrary additions) and also news items. Like most RSS feeds, this service is offered free of charge and does not require any forms to fill out. You simply point your chosen feed reader to our RSS Feed source (http://learn.solihull.ac.uk/rss/rss.xml).
