Looking for information on PR events and training? Want exclusive previews of CIPR events? Interested in getting PR tips from top practitioners and trainers? You've come to the right place!
activevents is a new site from the CIPR training and events team. We'll be announcing all our events here, with the latest additions to our programmes as they are confirmed. You'll also find tips on a range of PR hot topics, taster information from many of our conferences and workshops, and news and reviews after the events. Plus we'll be giving you the chance to take a peek into some of our sessions when we publish information live from the front row of selected events – more details on this to follow.
What's more, you can keep up-to-date with what's going on by signing up to receive RSS alerts whenever we have some news for you – simply click on the link in the top left hand corner to subscribe to our feed. If you're new to RSS feeds, read a bit more about this below.
We hope you'll find lots to interest you on activevents. Email your feedback to activevents@cipr.co.uk.
About RSS
RSS allows you to keep up to date with your favourite websites by sending you an alert when new content has been published. Instead of having to visit each website in turn, you can set up an online page or account that shows you at a glance which of those sites have been updated.
RSS is really simple…
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and distributes content as a feed using some code called xml – but you don’t need to have any special technical knowledge to take advantage of it!
The only thing that you do need is a tool to pick up the RSS feeds. These tools are known as news readers or feed readers. They check the RSS feeds you have set up and publish any updated information from these.
Choosing a news reader
There are many different options when it comes to choosing a news reader. Some of these are browser based, which means you can view them from any computer providing you have internet access. Others are downloaded onto your own computer. You’ll find a list of news readers further on in this article. Setting up a free online news reader account may well be the easiest route to take to begin with.
Setting up RSS feeds
Once you have chosen your news reader, the next step is to add RSS feeds from the websites that you want to keep up to date with. Details on setting up a feed for activevents are at the end of this article.
When you have set your feeds up, every time you visit your news reader account you will be presented with a list of all the websites and blogs that you’ve subscribed to which have been recently updated – making it much easier to keep track of a whole host of websites.
Some news readers
(please note that the above list is by no means comprehensive and the products are not specific recommendations!)
Subscribing to activevents
Subscribing to the activevents feed is easy...
Click on the 'Subscribe to activevents feed' link (towards the top left of this page) to open up the feed subscription page. activevents uses a site called Feedburner for its RSS feeds, which gives a list of the popular news readers that you may have an account with. Simply click on the news reader you require, log in to your account and follow the instructions to set the subscription to the activevents feed.
(N.B. Subscribing to the activevents feed is free.)
