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How to Add the INMED Partnerships for Children RSS Feed RSS

What is RSS?

RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is an easy way to receive automatic updates from INMED Partnerships for Children right on your desktop or browser. The syndication is done through a file that uses XML formatting to include titles, summaries, links, and descriptions of content.

Why is INMED publishing RSS feeds?

The goal for INMED in publishing these feeds is to make it easier for those in the community to follow announcements, share this information with colleagues, and increase the level of involvement with INMED.

Current INMED RSS Feed Topics

Website Announcements

This feed contains all announcements that are posted to the website www.inmed.org.

What Is an RSS Reader?

An RSS reader is a small software program that collects and displays RSS feeds. It allows you to scan headlines from a number of news sources in a central location.

Where Can I Get an RSS Reader?

Most of the newest web browsers and e-mail clients either include support for reading RSS feeds or have it offered through a third-party plug-in. In addition, there are special news readers or aggregators that display RSS content feeds from multiple online sources that you select. There are many different news readers available, many of which are free of charge. Most are available as desktop software that you download and install on your computer. Several Web-based news readers are available as well.

List of news readers (Yahoo)
List of news readers (Google)

Once you have set up your news reader, you simply subscribe to the RSS content feeds you want.

To set up RSS feeds using Outlook 2007 go to:

How Do I Use RSS Feeds?

The first step is to choose an RSS reader. Each reader has a slightly different way of adding a new feed, also called a "channel." Follow the directions for your reader but, in most cases, here's how it works:

  • Click on the link or more likely, the small RSS button near the feed you want. Once you do so, you will see a page displaying XML code. RSS
  • From your web browser's address bar, copy the URL (web address). For example, the URL you would copy for the INMED news is: http://www.inmed.org/rss.xml.  
  • Paste that URL into the "Add New Channel" or “Add New Feed” section of the reader. The RSS feed will start to display and regularly update the headlines for you.

What are the benefits of using RSS?

Rather than visiting a series of Web pages every day for content that interests you, by installing a RSS news reader and configuring them to pull RSS feeds you can automatically know when something new is posted online.