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HealthShare Personal Community News Product Area Guide




1. Overview

RSS (Rich Site Summary, and also known as Really Simple Syndication) is a standardized format for delivering frequently changing web content. RSS feeds are streams of RSS data that sites can display. RSS feeds are available from major national and international news organizations as well as from various other news organizations (such as for local or medical news). Personal Community displays RSS feed content on both its home page and on the News page.

The RSS feed on the unauthenticated home page (on a browser) displays the three most recent news items; this number is fixed. On the News page, the 50 most recent news items are displayed, across all feeds.


2. Business Decisions

You must make decisions regarding the following issues:

RSS Feeds

Whether to enable news and which (if any) feeds will be available to members.

Update Frequency

How frequently your version of Personal Community will update its RSS feeds.