Envisioning healthy congregations
engaged in effective
Christian Ministry
locally AND globally.
Envisioning healthy congregations
engaged in effective
Christian Ministry
locally AND globally.
RSS sends you summaries of new stories and updates of a web page or blog. You can go and read the whole story or just be satisfied with the summary.
The newest editions of Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Opera all have the ability to read the RSS "feeds."
Look on the home pape of a site or blog for an orange (or green) button with or without the letters RSS or XML. Click on that button and that web page's or blog's RSS should appear in a readable format.
Copy the address of that page. Follow the instructions of your browser or RSS Reader (also called "aggregator" because it "brings together" these stories, etc.). At one point you will need to supply the address of the new "feed" you are "subscribing" to.
RSS Readers also come with many features. Some of these are free; some not. One free one with many features is SharpReader. The advantage these "standalone" readers have in common is that they will list almost as many "feeds" (summaries of new posts of blogs and web sites) as you want to "subscribe" to. All you have to do is set up the address of each blog and site. The software remembers what you want and delivers when you open it.
Individuals and organizations should choose to publish an RSS of their blogs or sites. For some bloggers this feature comes with the package of services they chose when they set up their blog site.
Today's web site needs to have at least 1 RSS "Feed" of the site's home page. More and more people are choosing to keep up with the site's changes via RSS and not look, or rarely look, at the site itself. It is matter of being in a hurry.
An RSS "feed" is a good complement to e-mail. What you send out by e-mail to a group or groups, needs also to be sent out as summary with a link to the full story via RSS.
RSS "feeds" can be automatically and manually created with software that is added onto one's favorite web editor. For Example, Dreamfeeder is an excellent addition to Adobe's Dreamweaver. There are also standalones such as Simple RSS Studio from LionHardt Technologies. A look at CNET and Google will find others.
General Considerations
Graphics/Images (Pictures)
Music Score Composition/
Transposition
RSS (Read | Post)
Please send names of software that you have found helpful. If the categories above are not helpful, suggest a different or additional category name. The purpose of this section is to provide an opportunity for users to become aware of the availability of these tools. Thank You for helping.
Listed below are some areas of experience with which we may be able to help you as your question pertains to use of these technologies in ministry.
Dwight Stinnett
Executive Minister
Projection & PowerPoint
PowerPoint Composition
Roland Sundberg
Executive Administrator
Database Questions
Cheryl Henson
Area I
Ministerial Recruitment
Ministerial Cont. Ed.
PowerPoint Compositions
E-mail Newsletters
Web Page
John Grisham
Area II
Stewardship
E-mail as Communication
PowerPoint Composition
Richard Ricks
(Tech Team Leader)
Area III
Multimedia & Projection
Web Technologies
Randy McNeely
Area IV
Bivocational Ministry
Costa Rica Partnership
Using PowerPoint for Display
during events
Muriel Johnson
Area V
Church Planting
Using Video Chat
VOIP (Telephone over Internet)
E-mail as Communication Tool
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