Use feeds
Use feeds to stay up-to-date with information relevant to your community.
Before starting
To add feeds to a community, your community must contain the Feeds widget. For information about adding widgets to a community, see Add widgets to your community.
About this task
Feeds pull data from one web site into another. A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a given web site's feed by using a feed reader, you receive a summary of new content from that web site. For example, if you create a community for a group of doctors, you might include a feed from a medical journal so that all members of the community have direct access to the journal articles from within the community page.Communities can subscribe to feeds that are devoted to subjects of interest to the community. This subscription enables the community to get useful information delivered to it in one place from multiple sites of its choosing without having to actively search the web for the latest information.
The Feeds area on a community's Overview page displays the five most recent feeds added to the community.
Procedure
To access updated information from a feed associated with your community...
- From the community's Overview page, click Feeds.
- Click More next to a feed that interests you.
- Click a link that interests you to read more.
- Optional: Use the Next and Previous links to browse more feed entries.
Parent topic
Work with feeds
Related tasks
Add widgets to your community
Add a feed to a community
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