RSS Assignment

So I started this blog as part of a class and one of my assignments is to discuss how businesses can use RSS.  Really Simply Syndication or Rich Site Summary is a way to provide a way for people to opt-in and be able to keep track for when a website, podcast, or blog has changed content.  This allows for people to stay up to date with what is going on around a particular topic.  The biggest thing is that it moves away from forcing readers to keep checking to see if new content has changed or "pulling" them to your site a publisher of content is now able to "push" new content to a reader.

This functionality can be used by a business internally to provide information around what is going on within the company and employees would always get pushed the new information as soon as it is published.  No more having to send out emails to remind people to view a new policy or procedure is published.  As soon as the policy or procedure is published everyone who has opted-in to receive updates for that information would see it in their RSS reader.

The same could be done in an online program at a college or university.  Many times communication from upper levels down to everyone within the college is difficult especially if there is a lot going on and many people don't have time to read every committees meeting minutes, but if each of the minutes are posted to a committee's blog a interested faculty or staff member could subscribe to that committee and then anytime the minutes are updated that interested employee would be updated on what is going on with that committee.

All in all this is one simple way to help employees stay informed with what is going on at a company or college.  For more information check out:
https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/how-to/rss-101-useful-links

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