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We all lead busy lives, in an age where information is important and in so many different places. RSS feeds , denoted by this logo  have been developed to make it easier to keep up to date with the information you want to see.
Occassionally there will be new information on the Craighall website. Eskom publishes updates of their loadshedding on a daily basis. Perhaps your company newsletter and school newsletter is on a website too. But you really have no idea when these updates are going to come out.
If you want to keep up to date, you have to check each of these websites daily. In reality that does not happen so you check them weekly, or even less frequently. When you do eventually see the article, you realise you missed an important golf game on Saturday.
So why not check one place every day, and that one site or tool, gives you ALL the updates from all your favourite websites. Enter news feeds.
Find yourself a news feed reader. Google Reader is a practical alternative as we all use Google, but there is wide range available to suit your preference. Subscribe to all your news sites (such as craighallscouts.org.za) and whenever there is an update on any of your favourite sites, it will be there waiting for you. The provisor of course is that your website has to generate its feeds in a format that these readers can understand. If they do, you will typically see an icon on the page to say as much - look at the bottom of the right-hand column on our homepage.
There are two main standards of news feed - they are RSS and ATOM. Really, it is nothing more than VHS vs BETA all over again.... Happy reading.
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