Haslett, Andrew
andrew.haslett at ilc.gov.au
Wed Dec 8 19:12:33 CST 2004
Mark This is exactly what RSS was designed for.. An easy to consume, format and display - live feed of information. If you vist all the news sites on the net, you'll see they offer RSS Feeds. You just need something to consume it. What sort of system is your Intranet using? What coding language ? Any CMS? Most these days will have some sort of module that can consume an RSS feed. If not, they're not overly difficult to implement yourself. If you do this 'server-side', ie in the intranet back-end code subscribes to the RSS feed, then everyone who views your intranet page will see it, and you won't have to worry about every workstation implementing some type of RSS Reader. Cheers, Andrew _____ From: Mitsules, Mark [mailto:Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com] Sent: Thu 9/12/2004 7:37 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [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 <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/ <http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/> Mitsules, Mark wrote: >Drew, > >http://www.google.com/alerts/faq.html?hl=en <http://www.google.com/alerts/faq.html?hl=en> > >Mark > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Drew Wutka [mailto:dbatech at wolfwares.com <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 <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 >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. 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