RSS and National History Center Website

Following up on my last post about departmental Websites, I’ve been proposing to the organizations that I work with that we should incorporate the RSS feed for our news pages. Cityfolk, for example, has a terrific enewsletter put together by Holly Underwood along with a cast of staff and volunteers. The enewsletter provides the headings as links taking the reader back to the site for the details and the details go far beyond concert announcements. The Cityfolk enewsletter is full of staff ideas, information about jazz, ethnic, folk, Celtic, bluegrass, and world music, traditions in folk art and craft, teaching resources, and insights. The enewsletter works well but I would love to get the newsletter as well as timely announcements about their concerts and programs as an RSS feed. This would be true for academic departments and other organizations as well. The National History Center’s redesigned Website does just that — offering the choice of news by email or by RSS.