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There are many forms of website communciations to keep members informed.
eNewsletter
End users sign up to have periodic eNewsletters sent to their email accounts. These
eNewsletters are composed by the site contributors and sent to either test users
or the bulk accounts list. eNewsletters can be in either HTML or plain text. A eNewsletters archive is maintained for previously sent eNewsletters. Administrators maintain
the list of email accounts.
RSS feeds
News feeds are used to communicate new web content either by browser or
email news aggregators.
Add-ins are available from Microsoft and third parties for Outlook 2003 from Microsoft.
Which can greatly simplify real time news collection.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol is used by email clients, browsers and
other applications as the protocol is already standardized.
This allows for automatic checking of news feeds for the latest content. This content
can be articles,events, reports and other items.
Browsers can auto discover if a website has newsfeeds, like this website offers.
Email clients have add ins which can greatly simplify management of multiple newsfeeds
and look and act like regular email items. Companies like
Attensa
offer free Outlook Email plug-ins.
or
 - Click on RSS button to
view or subscribe to the news feed.
- Click on the ICON in you browsers toolbar, if it has one to read or subscribe.
Users of RSS new feed content use programs called RSS feed 'readers' or 'aggregators'.
The user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed.
The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds
have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content
and present it to the user.
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