News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest news in one place, as soon as it's published, without having to visit the websites you have subscribed to the feed from.
Feeds are also known as RSS or RSS Feeds.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a group of Web feed formats used to publish notifications of updated content on a web site including blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
The first thing you will need is software capable of reading the news feeds - generally referred to as a Feed Reader or a News Feed Reader. This software checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There is a wide variety of software available for this purpose. Some browsers provide the functionality to read feeds as standard but also full downloadable applications are available.
Check out the following software, according to your operating system:
Browser and web based solutions have the benefit of allowing you to access your RSS Feeds from any computer and any location. Although some of the installable applications provide an online service in addition to their core functionality.
When you have selected your preferred method of accessing the feeds all you have to do is add the required feeds to your reader.
You can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by copying and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader or just clicking the relevant link if your software is configured as the default application for handling RSS feeds.
Some browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier.
We've prepared several tutorials demonstrating how to subscribe to our feeds in various applications:
If you have your own website, you can display the latest news from other websites on your own site using RSS.
We encourage the use of NWIITT feeds as part of a website, however, we do require that the correct format and attribution is used when NWIITT content appears.
The attribution text should read "NWIITT" or "nwiitt.org.uk/feeds/index.asp" as appropriate. You may not use any NWIITT logo or other NWIITT content without written consent from the NWIITT Committee.
We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of NWIITT content and NWIITT does not accept any liability for its feeds.
