Messiah RSS Feeds

We've just made it even easier for you to keep track of what is going on at Messiah College.

By subscribing to Messiah's RSS feeds, you can get automatically updated information delivered directly to your desktop any time new items have been posted in these (RSS) areas on Messiah's website.

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News Releases
Homepage News Archive
Media Mentions
StoryLink
Centennial-Share a Memory
Calendar of Events
Department of Engineering
Department of English
EpiCenter
Philly Campus
Dan Custer's Blog
Mackenzie Martin's Blog

What is RSS?

RSS stands for "really simple syndication"
This orange and white icon is the symbol we use to indicate an RSS feed on Messiah's website.

How to subscribe to an RSS feed

RSS content is able to be read using software called an "RSS reader," "feed reader," or an "aggregator." The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.

To subscribe to our RSS feeds, you will need to have an RSS reader on your computer. Most RSS readers are free and easy to download. But the easiest way to subscribe to an RSS feed is on your designated homepage through your web browser. The current versions of the most popular browsers, Mozilla Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, and Apple's Safari, have RSS readers already built into them.

Below are some basic instructions about how to subscribe to an RSS feed through a browser. For your convenience, we have also created links for you to add our RSS feeds to your MyYahoo!, iGoogle or Google Reader and have provided links to other RSS reader programs for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

(Please note that readers are NOT programs supported or endorsed by the College. They are programs written by third-party software vendors and any problems you may encounter while running them need to be addressed by the vendor).

To subscribe Messiah College RSS feeds through your Internet browser:

1. Click on the Messiah RSS feed(s) to which you would like to subscribe from the listing at the top of this page.
2. In the box that pops up, click on the "Subscribe Now / Subscribe to this Feed" button or link.
3. Type a name in the box that will help you identify the feed or you may choose just to keep the default name that is already filled in for you. Then select the folder or create a new folder in which you want the feed to reside, then click "okay."

To view the RSS feeds to which you have subscribed

To see any new content that may have been posted to the feeds you have subscribed to, you will need to click on / check the RSS feed or "favorites" icon / buttons in your browser's menu bar.

These icons may vary by browser. For example, Internet Explorer 7 uses a yellow star and Mozilla Firefox 2 uses the standard orange and white RSS icon.

Please note that if you use multiple browsers / don't always use the same browser, only the RSS feeds you have subscribed to IN A PARTICULAR BROWSER will be accessible in that browser.

Where can I get a news reader?

We recommend:

Safari
Mozilla Firefox

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Other Browser-based News Readers:

Google Reader
Bloglines
FeedZilla
NewsGator
My Yahoo!

Downloadable Applications

Windows
Newz Crawler
FeedDemon
Awasu

Mac OS X
Newsfire
NetNewsWire

Additional resources

How to explain RSS the Oprah way