[dba-Tech] Google Alerts

Marty,

Maybe I goofed up the explanation of my situation.  Let me put it to you
this way.  If you had an intranet website, how would you present to your
viewers all of the daily emails you get from [dba-Tech]?  Keep in mind that
our policies, though not as restrictive as Güstav's, do not allow for
"installation" of software.

I was hoping to keep this filed under the KISS principle.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:22 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts


Why not use an  rss xml news feed, you might have to provide a rss viewer
A viewer essentialy looks at and reformats the xml and refreshes on a 
timely basis
It beats looking at the xml file in IE and hitting refresh or F5, every 
five minutes.
The xml is a really simple format and you can fancy up the output with 
xsl or css
I have written a Access one but there are plenty of user friendly ones 
hooked to IE
Heck there are even rss feeds that search blogs
for starters
http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/

Mitsules, Mark wrote:

>Drew,
>
>http://www.google.com/alerts/faq.html?hl=en
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Drew Wutka [mailto:dbatech at wolfwares.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:12 PM
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts
>
>
>What is google alerts?
>
>Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules,
>Mark
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:38 AM
>To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts
>
>
>Group,
>
>Wasn't quite sure where to post this, so here goes.  I am the webmaster for
>my departmental website.  I made it clear from the onset when I took the
job
>that I would NOT be responsible for creating the ongoing content, merely
its
>presentation.  Sad to say, but it appears that the content providers aren't
>responsible either;)  In an attempt to provide ongoing unique content, I
>have looked into Google alerts.  I'm setting up one now for industry
related
>news.  My question is this:
>
>I will be receiving these alerts through Outlook with the goal of posting
>them to our website in a timely manner using an automatic or semi-automatic
>process.
>
>Any great ideas on how to proceed?
>
>
>Mark
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada



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