About RSS Feeds

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows an Internet browser or a standalone RSS newsreader to keep you up-to-date on important announcements or new forms and schedules. The RSS button on a webpage will place a pointer in your browser's "bookmarks/favorites" or on your Internet provider's home page (e.g. AT&T or Comcast). This pointer will be named for the webpage that interested you. When you click on the pointer (browser bookmark or homepage content box) your screen will instantly be directed to the specific article you choose.

By now most modern browsers (like Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Opera 9.6+ or Safari) have built-in RSS newsreaders. The major web portals like Yahoo and Google allow you to add RSS feeds to your home page, or view them as additional folders in web-based email. Following are instructions for using some of these tools:

Internet Explorer 7 or 8

To add a new RSS feed, click on an orange or button or RSS icon on the web page, click again on "Subscribe to this feed"

To view headlines, click on View/Explorer Bar/Feeds (you can switch among Favorites/Feeds/History)

Firefox 3

To add a new RSS feed,

• click on an orange or button or RSS icon on the web page, OR
• click on the orange RSS icon in the address bar,

• click to select one if multiple feeds are offered
• click the drop-down list "Subscribe to this feed using" and select Live Bookmarks or an alternate like My Yahoo
• click the "Subscribe Now" button
• if using Live Bookmarks, select a location for a new bookmark

To view headlines, click on Bookmarks and navigate to the location you saved to previously.

Yahoo! ® (or AT&T ®) Home Page

To add a new RSS feed,

• go to your home page
• click the Add Content button

• click the Add RSS Feed button

• paste the URL http://www.gemusicboosters.org/rss-updates.xml into the prompt box
• click the blue Add button
• click the yellow I'm Done button

To view headlines, simply go back to your Yahoo! ® (or AT&T ®) home page at any time. Similar instructions will probably apply for Comcast or other Internet providers.

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