Presentation by Euforic Services (Pier Andrea Pirani, Pete Cranston, Vanessa Meadu) at the FAO Social Media Workshop - July 2012

1. Working with RSS feeds
FAO Social Media Workshop

2. Intro /definition
 A feed is a regularly updated summary
(“syndication”) of contents – blog
entries, headlines, publications, multimedia – in
the form of metadata about the source and the
contents. It includes links to the full versions of
those contents at their original location.
 Source: http://www.ciard.net/index.php?id=624

3. Key functions it supports
Publishing and information sharing
 Keep your user informed
 Create email alerts for your latest content
 Aggregate and syndicate your content
 Let other services re-publish your content

8. How to use
 Check if your platform allows you to
create feed automatically
 Consider set up your own simple site
using a blogging platform
 Use third-party applications (Feedcreator)
or workaround (Delicious)

9. Using http://feedburner.com/

10. Enter source feed URL

11. Set new feed URL and title

12. Click next and burn

13. Enable stats tracking

14. Your feed dashboard

15. Optimize for best outreach

16. Embed codes, email alerts, etc..

17. M&E

18. Hands on exercise
 RSS feed creation
– From your blog, delicious account,
external website etc..
– Publish through FeedBurner

19. Credits
 KSToolkit - http://www.kstoolkit.org/RSS/
 CIARD Pathways -
http://www.ciard.net/index.php?id=624
 iMark – Web 2.0 and Social Media for
Development