Can your church offer "feeds"?

If you are interested in more advanced web offerings, consider making some of your content available as "feeds". Right now, the number of sites offering feeds like RSS are a small percentage, but the number is growing daily. The United Methodist Communications site also offers RSS feeds.

No clue what that means? Check out the Feedburner page "About Syndication, RSS, and Other Web-Altering Chemicals". That Blog-format page also has links to other good background information in the top of the right column.

What could your church offer as a feed? Keep in mind that such feeds are a way to distribute new information. Also note that the person who wants to see that feed may need to install RSS Reader software, for example. If all your information on the web is static, there's no need for a feed. Here are a few quick ideas...

• Sermons
• Church news
• Youth news
• Church event reminders
• _____
  [Go ahead -- click on the "comments" link at the bottom of this entry and add your ideas.]

If you subscribe to a web page development service, ask if they have can handle RSS or other feeds.