RSS and Podcasts What Is First Gov gov

RSS and Podcasts What Is First. Gov. gov Doing? RSS, Blog and Podcast Workshop NOAA, February 21, 2006 Joanne Mc. Govern Web Content Manager First. Gov. gov joanne. mcgovern@gsa. gov

RSS What Is First. Gov. gov Doing? • Created page “What Is RSS? ” • Created Government RSS Library • Created two feeds from First. Gov. gov • Share How To’s and Best Practices on webcontent. gov

What Is RSS?

What Is RSS Page http: //www. firstgov. gov/Topics/ Reference_Shelf/Libraries/ RSS_Library/What_Is_RSS. shtml

RSS Library

RSS Library http: //www. firstgov. gov/Topics/ Reference_Shelf/Libraries/ RSS_Library. shtml

First. Gov. gov RSS Feeds 1. First. Gov. gov Updates • Same content as sent out via e-mail alerts • Frequency depends on how frequently site updates 2. Popular Government Questions • Uses the content from our FAQs (faq. gov) • Have 2, 000 Q & A’s to choose from • Chose 170 of likely interest to RSS user demographic • Post several a week • Will send by monthly themes (this month: Money)

First. Gov. gov RSS Feeds

First. Gov. gov RSS Feeds • http: //www. firstgov. gov/rss

First. Gov. gov Updates RSS Feed

Popular Government Questions RSS Feed

First. Gov. gov RSS Feeds • They bring traffic to other government websites. We are pointing to your information. • First. Gov. gov Updates are usually a link to another site • First. Gov FAQs contain answers with referrals to other agencies for more detail

Webcontent. gov

Lessons Learned • It is very inexpensive to add RSS feeds to your site • The real work is in the content—delivering quality and regular content that is of interest to your audiences • Consider how you re-use content via various channels

Podcasts What Is First. Gov. gov Doing? • Government Podcast Library • Working with Podcast directories (i. Tunes, Yahoo!, Podcast Alley, Podcast. net, Odeo, Podnova, Pod. Spider) to promote government Podcasts • Working on creating First. Gov. gov podcasts (audio and video) • Webcontent. gov—sharing How To’s and Best Practices

Government Podcasts Library

Government Podcast Library http: //www. firstgov. gov/Topics/ Reference_Shelf/Libraries/ Podcasts. shtml

Webcontent. gov

Add Your RSS Feeds and Podcasts to First. Gov’s Library • Visit http: //www. firstgov. gov • Click “Contact Us”, or • Click “Suggest-a-Link” • E-mail me directly: joanne. mcgovern@gsa. gov