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RSS News Feed

The North East Writers website now provides the news feed formerly hosted by Wordfringe. This news feed covers events and other items of interest to writers and those in the North-East of Scotland who appreciate the written and spoken word in all its forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, storytelling, comedy and collaborations with other artforms.

If you are unfamiliar with terms such as news feed and RSS, don't let the jargon put you off. The concept is simple, and it really is straightforward to use.

If you have ever missed a literary event because you didn't know about it, then this news feed could be for you. Yes, the event was listed on the North East Writers calendar, but you hadn't checked the website for a few days — you've got more important things to do with your time.

RSS allows you to keep track of all the things you are interested in — the latest news headlines, radio and TV listings, literary events, social gossip, whatever you choose — by looking in just one place. It's entirely up to you where that one place is. It could be in Microsoft Outlook alongside your regular emails, or with your "Favorites" in Internet Explorer 7 or "Live Bookmarks" in Mozilla Firefox, or perhaps on your blog or MySpace or Facebook page, or even on the Google front page. You choose somewhere that you already check on a regular basis.

You subscribe to the RSS news feeds you are interested in, and up-to-date notifications from all the different sources are aggregated in the one place. Exactly how you subscribe depends on where you want to receive the notifications, but here are a few examples:

In browsers such as Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox you simply browse to the feed page or click on the RSS icon:
In Microsoft Outlook you select Tools | Account Settings | RSS Feeds | New... and when prompted for the location of the feed enter: http://www.northeastwriters.co.uk/rss.xml
You can add the North East Writers feed to Google by clicking here:

Get into the habit of looking for the orange RSS icon on other websites you visit regularly to see if they offer news feeds. Some will offer many different feeds, e.g. the BBC News website offers feeds for Headlines, Health, Education, Politics &c. as well as for many geographical areas. For the time being at least, the North East Writers website just offers a single feed, covering events and other items of literary interest. A particular use for the feed will be for notifications of last minute changes to events or cancellations.

Don't be afraid to try subscribing to lots of different feeds — you can always unsubscribe from any you decide are delivering too many notifications, or which are not of interest to you.

For much more information about RSS, see the Wikipedia page.

Please address any feedback to rssfeedback@northeastwriters.co.uk.

The North East Writers website collates information from many sources. This information is provided in good faith, but inevitably occasional inaccuracies may occur, for which we apologise. Where possible, links are provided to the promoters and organisers of events, with whom you may wish to check for updated information.