According to Darlene Richter, (Using RSS to Create New Services, Online, July/August 2004) RSS isn't just for Internet content. It can also be a useful way to keep employees within your organization appraised of customized news and intranet content as well. You can display RSS news feeds on your intranet, or, if your audience uses RSS aggregators, offer feeds to alert users of the status of projects, monitor web statistics or otherwise replace the "notifications" that are now sent out as email alerts.
There are two ways to use RSS feeds internally. They can, of course, simply be made available to any employee with a newsreader, or they can be used to publish fresh content on your site by pulling current news items into an intranet page. Darlene includes examples of scripts that can be installed locally to display RSS feeds as HTML, and discusses option for internal news. As she points out, any information of an "episodic nature" is fair game to be delivered via RSS.
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