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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-----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?
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Amanda Pearce
External Relations Office
Loughborough University
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1509 228494
Fax: + 44 (0)1509 211516
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