OWS NYC Announcing: Subscribe to Events by OccupyWallSt Event Subscriptions and RSS Feeds!

[1776Forever]

OWS.org
by jakedeg

http://www.nycga.net/2011/10/23/announcing-subscribe-to-events/

We are very pleased to be rolling out another new feature of the site tonight: Event Subscriptions and RSS Feeds!

These two features have been very highly requested already and we’re psyched to be able to roll them out so soon. Let me break them down.

Events Subscriptions (.ICS): This will allow you to view an up-to-date stream of the NYCGA events list in whatever calendar application you typically use. This could be Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Outlook, or even your smartphone. How do you get in on this, you ask? Why, I’m glad you asked! At the top of the events page, you’ll see a link that says “Subscribe”. Click on this and a little box will pop up with a link. That link is your golden ticket. The method for adding this to your calendar application will vary from product to product, but here’s how to subscribe to an .ics to Google Calendar to get you started. When you’ve completed that process, your calendar will begin to fill up with the NYCGA events stream.

Events Feed (RSS): Right next to the ICS link mentioned above, you’ll also see a link to RSS. This is a very useful standard protocol for sharing information. You can subscribe to RSS Feeds in software like Google Reader, Pulse for iOS, and many more “reader” style applications. If you click on the RSS link on the events page, you will be take directly to the RSS feed for all NYCGA events. If you’d like to learn more about RSS and what it offers, try wikipedia.

Visit the Events page now and get started!

http://www.nycga.net/events/

Please note that at this time, both of these options are only able to output the full “fire hose” of NYCGA events. That is to say, all of our events are pushed to your calendar. We realized that there are a lot of events on the site already and that number is sure to keep growing. With such a huge volume of events, a visual calendar view is sometimes hard to make sense of. In the future, we do hope to offer more customized events subscription options (for example, the ability to only subscribe to the events by the groups you belong to). Stay tuned!

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Great job - The website has grown so quickly over time! Last night the Forum at OWS NYC was working on a blueprint for the future. Watch the site for more information on this important Document!


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[OneGrassRoot]

1. Awesome. K&R n/t

[1776Forever]

2. Yes - There are some very talented people at OWS! Can't wait for the Future Blueprint Document! n/t