RSS Feeds

What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a tool that lets a website or blog send out updates -- new content, calendar items, blog updates, and so on -- in a standard format that makes it "really simple" to include in a webpage, subscribe to in email programs, with many web browsers such as Flock or FireFox, online tools like Google Reader, and more.

More about RSS Feeds

Here's a four-minute video about reading RSS Feeds using Google Reader from CommonCraft:

What does RSS have to do with ServiceWire?

This site lives through RSS. Almost all of the content comes through automatically from Youth Service America partners and thought-leaders in service and service-learning.

As a resource for the field, ServiceWire also lets you subscribe to feeds coming out of this "filter" of news. Look for the RSS icon: on pages to subscribe using your favorite RSS reader, or even via email using http://www.rssfwd.com