Comments on: RSS Gumbo - A Delicious Googly Moss Stew

By: seinnyteM

seinnyteM — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:23:23 +0000

Very nice!!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:52:19 +0000

Gavin,

I found the answer to this on another blog (http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2007/05/19/my-sharepoint-must-have-free-add-ons.aspx) and thought you and anyone else that came across your site as I did might benefit from it.

Shane Young of Sharepoint911 said:

‘The out of the box reader leaves something to be desired. My biggest complaint? It can only read its own SharePoint RSS feeds if you are using Kerberos authentication.’

He uses Smiling Goat in MOSS 2007.

By: Gavin Clabaugh

Gavin Clabaugh — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:46:01 +0000

Oskar,

You are correct. The MOSS RSS reader only accepts a single feed URL. It’s a shame. At the time I wrote this piece, I was still using SPS2003 and the Smiling Goat RSS reader would accept multiple RSS URLs.

I am unsure if the Smilng Goat WebPart will work with MOSS, and I HAVE NOT tried it.

That said, it looks like the Content Query web part that comes with MOSS might also do this. It does, out of the box, a roll-up of other content sources. I’ve used it for rolling up announcments. However, feeds are fundementally different, I would think. It might not work at all. It’s something I’d like to know and I’ll be looking into it in the future.

Sorry I don’t have a better answer.

regards

gavin

By: Oskar Austegard

Oskar Austegard — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:15:08 +0000

“What you get is a roll-up. You can aggregate multiple lists into a single list on another page.”

How exactly do you do this in MOSS? The RSS Reader webpart only allows a single RSS feed, right?

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:37:55 +0000

I like the new style/colors

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:48:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing the RSS how-tos and the great questions that organizations shoudl be thinking about as they integrate technology. But dead in the middle of your post as an ah-ha for me:

“Don’t get me wrong, I think these tools are great, maybe even revolutionary, in a personal and community sense. But for an institution, one must ask: What’s useful and why, and what’s just a waste of time? For some it will be right, for other’s it will be a waste of time.”

I’ve been very much involved with communities of practice and technologies in this whole thinking about technology stewardship and trying to see where it connects to npos — to concepts like TCO and outcomes.

Back to your questions:

# How could I use it to increase productivity?
# How could I use it to increase our knowledge and, thereby, directly enhance the work that we do?

I have one for you — when do these two issues work at odds with each other? If you enhance productivity, do you automatically increase capacity or effectiveness? Are they dependent?

Nice piece.