Sometime ago I set up a BBC newsfeed for Goldsmiths staff/student pages: I
certainly don't remember having to sign up to anything; we just got the code
from their website!
see http://www.gold.ac.uk/index.php
Andrew
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King's College, University of London
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: List for the UK HE community to discuss all aspects of
> managing an
> institut [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Cox, Will
> Sent: 27 June 2002 12:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: BBC News headline service
>
>
> I can't see this adding much value to our external
> (marketing) website,
> which users visit to find information about
> courses/research/etc. It would
> probably be of use on the intranet, especially if you could
> specify only to
> receive headlines from (say) the education section and only about
> universities. Individual departments/schools/faculties may
> also be able to
> use it on their intranets (our computing school getting all
> the latest IT
> news for example).
>
> I always think that this kind of content placement is more
> beneficial to the
> organisation providing the copy than the one hosting the feed.
>
> Incidentally we decided not to peruse getting our webcam on
> the BBC webcam
> directory as they stipulated so many T&C's that we would have
> had to embark
> on a major re-signage project to comply!
>
> Will
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> Will DG Cox - New Media Marketing Manager
> Marketing and Development, Sheffield Hallam University
> Tel 0114 225 3893 Fax 0114 225 2094 E-mail [log in to unmask]
>
> www.shu.ac.uk - Gold Award Winner - Heist Education Marketing Awards
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amanda Pearce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 June 2002 12:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: BBC News headline service
>
>
> We ( at Loughborough University ) are considering taking up the BBC's
> offer of their trial news headline service: a "simple HTML-based box
> for inclusion on non-BBC websites. The box will initially provide
> your choice of headlines from our News and Sport sections, updated
> every minute of the day, ....easy to implement....etc"
>
> We registered an interest and were sent a rather hefty set of Terms
> and Conditions considering it was a 'first stage trial'
> What do the rest of you think about this idea?
> --
>
> Amanda Pearce
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