On each page of this web page, you will find buttons that enable you to subscribe to our RSS feeds, share a page on Facebook, Twitter, or another social service, and assist you to send the page by email to a friend. We also prvide easy ways to display our feed on cultural events through a widget on your desktop, on your blog, or web site.
Subscribing to RSS feed
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" : it is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. In the case of Alliance Française, we use it to distribute a feed of sponsored cultural events. And you can use it to aggregate, through your favorite RSS reader, those news with other news of your interest elsewhere on the web : that way, you don’t need to check again each specific web site to gather your news.
There are many ways for you to aggregate RSS feeds :
- You may use an online service : just open a free account with Netvibes, iGoogle or RSS4you.
They are the best to gather RSS feeds, but also a number of widgets, podcasts, etc !
RSS feed on Netvibes
- Using your browser : with the latest versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera, you can gather your RSS feeds directly in your browser, and access them as you do with your bookmarks.
- you may use add ons for Firefox (see review or browse add ons) or Internet Explorer (search add ons : they will make this experience even more pleasurable.
- You may use gadgets for your desktop on Windows or Mac, or using Google desktop gadgets.
RSS feed on Windows 7 Gagdet
- You may download a dedicated software like RssReader or just use your current e-mail application : Outlook (see tutorial) or Thunderbid (see tutorial)
Here are then several methods to organize your feeds :
- Most feed aggregators let you to browse categories and search feeds per keyword. Type "alliance française" in Netvibes or IGoogle and you will find us !
- You may also indicate directly the address of the RSS feed you want to follow. The address of our feed is :
http://www.afzim.org/bulawayo/spip.php?page=backend-events - Web sites that propose feeds feature a small "RSS" icon that enable you to subscribe directly.
Check our button at the bottom of this page !
For example, if you choose Netvibes, you may find us by typing "Alliance française" in the widget directory, and above is the result you will get (editing preferences to "detailed" or "magazine view", and opening directly on the site) :
Sharing the page on social media
Share the page with your favorite social networks : Facebook, Twitter and many more !
Saving the page
Also use the share & save button to bookmark your page with Google Bookmarks, Yahoo Bookmarks, another service or simply your current brower.
Emailing the page
The tool also makes it easy to send a reference to the page yo your friends, using Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, or another mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird.
Syndicating content on a website or blog
Finally, webmasters will find it easy to syndicate our content and display Bulawayo cultural events featured by Alliance Française, using this URL :
http://www.afzim.org/bulawayo/spip.php?page=backend-events
It proposes : 1> one fatured events 2> other upcoming events 3> last past events.
French speakers will find a useful resource on how to syndicate RSS content on their website.
CMS usually make it easy for webmasters to include RSS feeds on their sites. If you use a CMS, check your documentation !
For those using SPIP, here is detailed tutorial in pdf.
English speakers who need more help will find many resources on the world wide web.
And for the lazy ones : include a widget similar to the one shot above on Netvibes the easy way : just copy the following code on your web page !
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.netvibes.com/js/UWA/load.js.php?env=BlogWidget2"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var BW = new UWA.BlogWidget({moduleUrl:'http://www.netvibes.com/modules/multipleFeeds/multipleFeeds.php?provider=custom&url=http%3A%2F%2Favatars.netvibes.com%2Fmultifeed%2F374045'});
BW.setConfiguration({'title':'Exciting Cultural Events in Zimbabwe', 'height':440, 'color':'red'});
</script>The widget can also be displayed on your blog, copying the code above.
For example, using Blogger, go to Layout : Add a gadget, choose "basic", "HTML/javascript", paste the code above and save : that is it.
Gadget on your desktop
Get our widget with cultural events right on your dekstop :
- with Windows Vista
- on Mac.
Alliance Française Bulawayo on Facebook
As an example of RSS syndication, see the page of Alliance Française Bulawayo on Facebook !
You may "become a fan" there, or directly from our Contact page
Our newsletter
Also, we have a newsletter featuring news on cultural events in Bulawayo and Alliance’s activities.
Get it all directly in your mailbox by subscribing from our Contact page.
