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RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication)
RSS feeds make it easy to stay up-to-date with your favorite websites without having to check on them manually. All you need is an RSS reader and a basic understanding of how RSS works.
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What is RSS?
RSS is a technology that makes it easy for you to subscribe to blogs, news sites, search engine results, and any sort of regularly updated content. When any of these sites post something, like a blog post or news article, for instance, you are instantly notified in your feed reader. A feed reader is a piece of software or website that is similar to an email program. When a site updates, it sends feed readers a summary of the post with a link back to the whole thing.
Going from website to website, trying to keep up-to-date with the information can be very time-consuming, and if you forget to visit a site you can even miss key information. With RSS you'll always have the most current content, without the effort.
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Idealist.org's RSS feeds
Advanced searches: To subscribe to search results from our advanced search, click on "Advanced searches" below the search bar in the header. Select the type of advanced search you'd like to perform, enter your search terms, and search. On the search results page you'll see a link at the top that says "  Get an RSS feed for this search". Click on it and copy the URL into your favorite feed reader.
Blog posts: To subscribe to the blog found on the home page, scroll to the bottom of the blog and click on [ RSS feed]. Copy the URL into your favorite feed reader.
Nonprofit FAQ To get an update any time there's new information about one of the hundreds of topics covered in the Nonprofit FAQ, click on [ RSS feed] on the page you're interested in. The Nonprofit FAQ has an index that starts at Nonprofits.org.
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How do I start using RSS feeds?
The first thing you need is an RSS reader, this will check RSS feeds and let you read any new listing that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.
Browser-based RSS readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo.
Once you have chosen an RSS reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds.
For example, if you would like the latest Idealist.org news, Idealist.org listings or Idealist.org events information, simply visit the Idealist.org site and on the Search results page, you will see the orange RSS buttons on the top of that page next to the search definition.
If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your RSS reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your RSS reader.
Most sites that offer RSS feeds use a similar orange RSS button, but some may just have a normal web link to the feed.
Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for RSS feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to RSS feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.
Where do I get a RSS reader?
There is a range of different RSS readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. You need to choose one that works on an internet browser, or one that will work with your computer.
RSS readers you can use on any internet browser
- Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com
- NewsGator http://www.newsgator.com
RSS readers for Windows
- Newz Crawler http://www.newzcrawler.com
- Awasu http://www.awasu.com
News readers for Mac OS X
- Safari's built-in RSS reader
- Newsfire http://www.newsfirerss.com
- NetNewsWire http://tinyurl.com/lbgg6
RSS readers for Linux
- Straw http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw
- Syndigator http://syndigator.sourceforge.net
Find other RSS readers on Google follow this link: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=rss+reader
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