Is your club using the RSS feed for RI news?

Rotary International News - 24 October 2007

A Rotary club or district Web site with pages that never change, is a site that people soon stop visiting.

It can be a demanding task, however, week after week — even when you’re on vacation — to find a steady stream of well-written, informative content for your Web site. But does it have to be that difficult? With a Rotary International RSS news feed providing new content for your Web site, it’s almost effortless.

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a basic form of Web page that sends news headlines and other Web content to subscribers. RSS users register to news feed sites and have regularly updated news sent straight to them.

“Every Rotary club should put Rotary International’s RSS feed on its Web site,” says Sam Hummelstein, president of the Rotary Club of Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA. “Club leaders must use every tool available to get new members. We try to connect members with Rotary International as much as possible – to educate, inform, and create stronger bonds. RSS is a great retention tool.”

Some Rotary club and district Web sites use RSS news feeds from other sources to complement their existing content. These clubs are encouraged to subscribe to Rotary International’s official news feed, providing the latest links to official announcements, project stories, featured articles from The Rotarian and Rotary International Interactive, as well as other RI media.

Besides an RSS feed, RI also offers a weekly e-mail news bulletin. Sign up for it now and get Rotary news sent to you via e-mail. You can also use these articles on your club Web site or newsletter.

10 Comments:

At 11:26AM on 12 February 2010, Renee Q. wrote: Just an update for Clubrunner users out there. The help page was very easy and straightforward to walk a site administrator through getting an RSS Feed from Rotary International on to their website. Best of luck!

At 4:58PM on 31 October 2007, MIke wrote: We use Club Runner to publish and host our website. We'd like it to populate our club's web page and bulletin. How might we do this? www.sartellrotary.org

At 11:04AM on 30 October 2007, DG Dr.Vijendra wrote: It nice to receive RSS

At 10:44AM on 29 October 2007, Rtn. Vinoba Indran vinoattorney@hotmail.com wrote: RSS ia simplified tool to read about the Rotary International's latest updated news. At the regular meetings we used this news feed back to inform all memebers of Batticaloa Rotary Club Sri Lanka and publish in Club Bulletin.

At 10:50AM on 29 October 2007, Kenneth Himschoot wrote: We've integrated it on our club's website, see bottom of http://www.rotaryeeklo.be/overrotary/ If anyone needs the PHP code to do it, contact me, I'd be happy to help out.

At 10:48AM on 29 October 2007, Tom wrote: I'm with Shelly. I read what you say and I want to add the feed to my website but I don't understand the process. Please make it clearer as to what I do. I manually add the news headlines to the site now (http://www.rotarytworivers.org/eRotaNotes.html#RI) What do i do different to use the feed? Thanks for help.

At 11:01AM on 26 October 2007, Suryanarayana S V-web administrator- www.rcsw.in wrote: RSS is a very good tool to keep us updated with Rotary International latest news. We have included in our home page at http://www.rotaryclubofsecunderabadwest.org We recommend other clubs to add this RSS news feed.

At 11:01AM on 26 October 2007, Mitzi Pape wrote: Secretary Danville, Il. U.S.A. Sunrise Rotary

At 4:05PM on 25 October 2007, Shelly wrote: A how-to article with more specifics would be nice!

At 10:56AM on 26 October 2007, Pablo Fernando Sanchez wrote: We at R.C. Bucaramanga Nuevo Milenio (Colombia), D4270, are using the feed in our website: http://rotarynuevomilenio.wordpress.com/ We also provide a feed with our own content and references to on-line articles about Rotary published in Spanish all around the world.

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