How Do You Use RSS In The Office?
Tuesday 10 February 2009 - Filed under Code
I’m a big RSS fan. I am not sure how I’d stay current without Google Reader!!
Now I’m trying to think outside the box a bit and figure out how we could leverage RSS in the office.
Our bug tracker JIRA has an RSS feed, so does our Wiki. I’m assuming Sharepoint can generate RSS feeds. I know Outlook 2007 can read RSS feeds so hopefully once everyone is upgraded that would eliminate the ‘how do we view it’ hurdle.
How do you use RSS at work? Do your applications support RSS? Do your clients?
2009-02-10 » Jim Priest
10 February 2009 @ 12:30 pm
also Google Reader, but I’m cinsuming way too much RSS, so I can’t read all of them – I think I should delete some of them.
Because of CF I’m now using Twitter (TweetDeck) and here I’m a folower of cfbloggers and also some of the CF-Gurus and so I get all of the necessary CF-updates out there ;-)
11 February 2009 @ 4:58 am
Hi,
You could try something called RSS Popper, it’s a freeware add-on for Outlook that will let you subscribe to feeds.
http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/
Haven’t had chance to try it out properly yet but looks alright.
11 February 2009 @ 7:32 am
Hi Jim,
I use the “Sage” add-on(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/77) for FireFox, also the outlook express in tandem.
I will get the updated OPML file from coldfusionbloggers.org site that will get almost all the coldfusion blogs for me.
– David R
11 February 2009 @ 9:02 am
Just to clarify – this isn’t about what you use to READ RSS…. this is what applications have you built or use that generate RSS in a creative or useful way?
11 February 2009 @ 9:58 am
We use RSS feeds in multitude of ways:
- Feed of employee ID badges created
- Feed of change management submissions submitted/approved
- Feed of new & departing employee announcements
- Feed of HR related announcements (training class announcements, payroll system updates, etc.)
These are all internal (intranet) RSS feeds. Most “consume” the feeds by just using the default ability of Internet Explorer to read RSS (not an external web-based feed reader like Google Reader). Looking forward to an Outlook 2007 upgrade (RSS functionality) so that we can stop some of the e-mail distributions of these announcements we do.
The feeds are all generated by ColdFusion as described in Pete Freitag article here:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/465.cfm