How do I use the feeds I get?

To view feeds you use a feed reader (also known as an aggregator). A reader is designed to collect information about content from the places whose feeds you've subscribed to. This could be as simple as using your web browser to collect the feeds (recent versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari support this). To try this out, simply go to a community or piece of content you want to receive updates on and click the feed icon there. There are also reader applications that are specifically designed to help you collect feeds.

Note: When you're adding feed subscriptions to your feed reader, you might have to associate your user name and password with the subscription. That's because the feed reader is getting information from Jive SBS on your behalf. Jive SBS needs to know it's not giving the information to just anyone!

For the feeds you've subscribed to, you'll typically get a list of summaries for content that has recently been added or changed. You can view the content itself or mark it in the list as having been "read."

To subscribe to the feed for content, you add the link URL for the feed to your feed aggregator. One way to get the URL is to click the feed icon when you're viewing content, then copy the URL out of the address bar at the top of your browser. You can also get the URL from a list of all the available feeds for a space by clicking Subscribe via RSS under Actions.

Note: Some browsers will display a feed symbol at the right side of the address bar (at the top, where the page URL is). If you click the symbol, you'll get a list of the feeds available. This is a good way to get feeds for documents, for example.