RSS Feeds for Current Awareness

St. Louis continued...After spending all that time at the Newsgator booth, I became a woman on a mission. Here we were, in the same convention center with many of the leading legal publishers; but which ones are offering RSS feeds for their content? I canvassed the exhibit hall, and while I didn’t visit every booth, I found some serious progress is being made on the RSS front.

First, there’s BNA. Their email newsletters are very popular among the attorney population. And yes, their information is soon to be offered via RSS. They can even create keyword specific feeds that searches across all the publications you subscribe to, and aggregate the result in a separate feed. Contact your rep for more information.

Lexis, in their Publisher product, and Westlaw, with Westlaw Watch, give you the option of RSS feeds. If you’re using these tools, these can be a significant source for RSS data.

Westlaw is also incorporating RSS into their Docket Watch product. An RSS feed could be perfect for keeping up with developments in that area.

What about CCH? Not so much. Heck, they’ve only just started sending selected newsletters out by email. It may take them a while….

During my rounds, I suggested RSS feeds to any publisher offering current awareness tools. RSS feeds are not technically difficult to create, so it’s within easy reach of any publisher large or small. Once the demand is there, I daresay so will the feeds.

I’m sure there were more, but that’s the RSS news I was able to glean from the exhibit hall floor this time around. You can thank me later, when all the news that’s fit to print is being delivered seamlessly to your attorneys desktop.