Ramapo College of New Jersey Press Release RSS (Real Simple Syndication)

The technology of real simple syndication (RSS) allows Internet users to subscribe to Web sites that have provided RSS feeds. Tthese are typically sites that change or add content regularly. The Ramapo College RSS feed will present a headline and a few lines about our press releases and a link to the full release. Unlike subscriptions to many printed newspapers and magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free.

RSS is widely used by the Weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines, of their full text and attached multimedia files. In mid- 2000, use of RSS spread to many of the major news organizations, including Reuters, CNN, and the BBC. These providers allow other Web sites to incorporate their "syndicated" headline or headline-and-short-summary feeds under various usage agreements. RSS is now used for many purposes, including marketing, or any other activity involving periodic updates or publications.

A program known as a feed reader, or aggregator, can check RSS-enabled Web pages on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds. It is now common to find RSS feeds on major Web sites, as well as many smaller ones.

Client-side readers (aggregators) are typically constructed as stand alone programs or extensions to existing programs like Web browsers. Such programs are available for various operating systems.

Wikipedia (open source online encyclopedia) provides an up-to-date list of news aggregators for Web based reading, desktop reading and for reading from within your Web browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aggregators

Those in the Microsoft Windows environment can find RSS resources on their Web site.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/expert/bridgman_05november21.mspx

Subscribe to Ramapo College’s RSS feeds to get news delivered directly to your desktop.

To view one of the College’s feeds in your RSS Aggregator/Reader.

1. Copy the URL/shortcut that corresponds to the topic that interests you.
2. Paste the URL into your reader.

Title                                  Copy URLs to RSS Reader
(Internet Explorer and Netscape: Copy Shortcut, Firefox: Copy Link Location, and Safari: Copy Link)

Press Releases
http://www.ramapo.edu/news/rss.xml

Podcasts 
http://www.ramapo.edu/news/podcast/index.xml

Video Podcasts
http://www.ramapo.edu/news/videos/index.xml

Alumni Press Releases
http://www.ramapo.edu/alumni_foundation/association/rss.xml

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