Managing Site Content Syndication

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a standard way to make emerging content available to readers of a Windows SharePoint Services list or document library. Once a reader subscribes to an RSS feed (the XML emitted from a Web request), he can use an RSS aggregator running on his desktop to check for new or modified content as often as he chooses.

Tip

Office Outlook 2007 can be used as an aggregator. This topic is discussed in Chapter 11. Harvard Law also has a list of third-party RSS aggregators: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5/aggregators.

The aggregator gathers all updates into a common pool of data that can be searched, sorted, filtered, and grouped by the aggregator as directed. Windows SharePoint ...

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