Subscribe to the Kent Teachers Blog

Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:36 PM by kent-teachers

Did you know you can receive our latest posts in one place, as soon as its published, without even having to visit the Kent Teachers Blog?

We've been posting blog entries for over two years now and realised that we never explained how you can subscribe to the Kent Teachers blog. Shame on us!

Step #1 - First, it's important to understand what you are doing when you are subscribing to a blog. Essentially you are setting it up so that when a new post is made to the blog you'll be automatically updated. Why is this so nice? It means that if you subscribe to several blogs, or websites, you can have all the updates delivered to one place.

Step #2 - You need a blog reader. There are literally dozens of free blog readers (often called RSS readers, aggregators, etc.) out there. I use iGoogle (http://www.google.com/ig). It is the first page I see when I open my internet browser. Straight away I can see any updates to the 20 or more blogs I subscribe too.

Step #3 - Now you've got your blog reader in place you need the details for subscribing to our blog. For most blog readers you'll need to plug a URL into your reader (this is called an RSS feed or an XML feed). To subscribe to our blog,  click on the RSS 2.0 link  on the blue band near the top of the page.

Adding a post to our blog

If you have found a good resource on the internet or have an item for our blog, please use the email link, on the blue band near the top of the page, to tell us.

Comments

# re: Subscribe to the Kent Teachers Blog

Friday, February 08, 2008 12:18 PM by David Deakin

I'd rather not have to install a reader to receive updates, but I've been unable to activate email update as you're not currently allowing people to register?

d.deakin@hernebayhigh.kent.sch.uk

# re: Subscribe to the Kent Teachers Blog

Friday, February 08, 2008 1:38 PM by kent-teachers

Hi David

We would love to offer the chance of offering our readers email updates, however, I believe this option is only available to owners of the blogs.  I will make some enquires to see if there can be an option for everyone to receive email updates.

Mandy

# re: Subscribe to the Kent Teachers Blog

Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:39 PM by .

If you upgrade to Office 2007, Outlook 2007 has a build in RSS feed reader....

# Software upgrade and e-mail alerts on Kent blogs

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:15 AM by ClusterBlog Support

Mandy has written a very useful post on how to subscribe to our blogs using RSS feeds . Her post raised .......

# re: Subscribe to the Kent Teachers Blog

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:17 AM by Sophie

Hi Mandy and David

I've posted to my own blog about this issue and am happy to receive feedback.

Sophie