WELS’ Web site, www.wels.net, is keeping pace with the quickly changing world of Web technology with its use of RSS—Really Simply Syndication. RSS allows blogs, Q&A and anything sent over WELS’ news service to automatically feed into other Web sites. This can provide major advantages for churches as well as individuals.

For example, at most churches the Web site is handled by a volunteer. Once the Web page is up and running, the biggest difficulty is keeping the site’s content up to date. RSS can help solve this problem. The church’s Webmaster simply needs to add an RSS feed of, let’s say, WELS.net “Daily Devotions” or “Daily Prayers” and the church Web site will be automatically updated with this content on an hourly basis.

Individuals can also have their favorite WELS.net content fed into a Web account or right onto their computer. A free “reader” Web account must first be set up over the Internet. The reader site will walk you through the set-up. Then you can choose to add WELS RSS feeds. Once this is accomplished, you’ll be able to log into your account to receive always-up-to-date WELS content (not to mention updates from various other Web sites you pick).

For everything you need to know to get started, visit www.wels.net and search by one of the following jumpwords:

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