Feed Reader Services

What is it? | How Do I Get There? | Tips and How To's

What is it?

Feed Reader Services are organizations that gather information such as news, sports scores, weather forecasts and reference materials and make it available on a website or journal. Journal provides links to the most popular News Aggregators: My Yahoo, Bloglines, and NewsGator.

Clicking these links will automatically place the RSS Feed URL of your Journal in one of these Websites. This means that every time you update your Journal, a link to the newest addition to your Journal will appear on one of these sites.

How Do I Get There?

Navigating to Feed Reader Services

  • On any page in the Journal, Locate the Subscribe box.
  • Click Click here. The "Subscribe to this Journal" page will open.
Tips and How To's

Journal Subscription Using Feed Reader Services

  1. Choose the appropriate Feed Reader Service.
  2. Click the corresponding Icon. The Feed Reader's Site will open.
  3. If you have an account to the Feed Reader Service you chose, and your browser has been set to remember your password, the RSS Feed URL for this Journal will be added automatically.
  4. If you have an account to the Feed Reader Service you chose, but your browser has not been set to remember your login and password, you will need to enter your login and password before the RSS Feed URL for this Journal can be added.
  5. If you do not have a account to the Feed Reader Service you chose, you will have to create an account and log in before the RSS Feed URL for this Journal can be automatically added.